Mini Lesson
A Mini- Lesson is usually a 5-10 minutes whole class activity and may be as simple as doing guided writing from a story. This is a direct teaching opportunity for teachers to present the information a class is ready to learn.
Status of the Class
The Status of the Class takes about 2-3 minutes and provides the student and teacher with information about how the student's work is progressing.
Write and Confer
Writing & Conferring is ideally a 20 - 40 minute session. In the beginning of the Kindergarten year however, shorter sessions works better.
Sharing
Sharing usually take 10 minutes and is done either by having the students read to the class a "published work" or by children sharing their work in pairs.