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How Does Daily 5 work in 3ES

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We are hoppin'.......about Daily Five. We LOVE Daily Five time!  If your child comes home and talks about it, I am so thrilled!  Daily Five is our literacy block in our classroom.  It is not a program, but a management system that allows students to  work on authentic reading practice while I meet with small groups and individual  students.  In the beginning of the year, we will spend a great deal of time  learning what daily 5 behaviour looks like and sounds like.  This  explicit teaching of behavior allows Daily Five time to run smoothly, as all  students know exactly what to do, so that I can focus my attention on very individualized reading instruction.


During Daily Five time, students will participate in a 2-3-teacher led  mini-lessons on reading strategies, phonics, and grammar. Students also will  participate in self-selected literacy activities.  Your child will come to love  and crave this time each day to become a fantastic reader and writer!

These are the literacy choices that will be included in our self-selected time.
 
 
Read to  self
Students each have a bag full of"just right fit" books that they read from during read to self.

Read to  someone
Students can practice developing  their fluency by reading to someone.  
 
Work on  writing
Students work on original stories,  lists, poems, letters, etc... during work on writing.  The writing area is  stocked with idea starters,
decorative papers, pens, markers, and spelling aides.

Work on  words
Students practice weekly forever words and  vocabulary words through hands-on activities like Wikki Sticks, using magnets  and stamps to make words,
dot makers, and letter cutouts.  They can also  practice making word with a variety of apps on digital devices.

 
Listen to  reading
Students use computers, iPods, iPads and other electronic devices to listen to recorded books.
  

Daily Five Schedule

 10 minutes Whole group
 Word work or vocabulary mini-lesson:
This will focus  on whatever skill or strategy we are working on for the week. 
Many of the  skills and strategies will come from our reading series.

20 minutes
Small group
Reading groups, strategy groups, individual reading conferences: Students are engaged in the independent literacy choices
listed above  while I meet with small groups and individual students.  I will work with  flexible strategy groups and individual students on reading strategies.  

10 minutes Whole group
Reading mini-lesson: This will focus on specific  comprehension strategies which I will select based on students' needs, and the list on our CAFE 
menu.  I will  explicitly model comprehension skills through read-alouds. Students will also  have opportunities to practice using the skills.

20 minutes Small group
Reading groups, strategy groups, individual reading  conferences
 
10 minutes Whole group
Group sharing:  Ideally, we share for 10  minutes at the end of Daily Five time. Students are  able to share how they used different strategies today in their reading.  They  may also share what they wrote about, read, listened to, or completed during  word work.



Don't try and implement this on your own!  Please read the Daily Five  book by The Sisters!



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