What is Daily 5?
Daily 5 is a literacy framework that instills behaviors of independence, creates a classroom of highly engaged readers, writers, and learners, and provides teachers with the time and structure to meet diverse student needs. Because it holds no curricular content, it can be used to meet any school, district, state, or national standards. For more information on Daily 5, you can visit the website HERE.
These are the activities students will be doing independently during Daily 5:
Read to Self: Students read books from their book boxes and will sometimes do an activity.
Work on Writing: Students take out their notebooks and write about anything they like, or practice what we have been doing during writers’ workshop.
Listen to Reading: Students use the Ipads and listen to books on the MyOn website.
Word Work: Students practice making words, sight words, and their spelling words.
Read to someone: A pair of students will read together and quietly discuss the story.
What will the teacher be doing during Daily 5?
I will be working with small groups to work on individual student needs and goals and assess students to help guide my instruction. Each round will be 20-25 minutes long, with small lessons in between that focus on reading comprehension, fluency, and accuracy strategies that are a part of the Daily 5 Café Menu. Here is what the Café Menu looks like: