Daily 5 is becoming more common at PG and many teachers are experimenting with the format. The nice thing about Daily 5 is that it can be altered and tweaked to meet the needs of your students so what one teacher is doing for Daily 5 may look very different from another. I found a website from a school called Breaknock Elementary with a great description of what Daily 5 is:
Many of our teachers plan to utilize The Daily 5 framework in their classes this year. This is a framework that helps best organize time during literacy block to ensure students are engaged in meaningful reading and writing activities. This framework encourages reading independence and gives children the skills needed to create a lifetime love of reading and writing. It consists of five tasks that are introduced individually. It is modeled and supported by teachers throughout implementation. It is not something that is implemented in a week or two, so classes using this framework will be working hard over the next several weeks to fully implement. When each task is introduced, students discuss what it looks like, sounds like, and feels like to engage in the task independently, as teachers model the task. There are specific student behaviors associated with each of the tasks, and there is also a focus on continuing to build a strong classroom community! Students then work towards building “stamina” until they successfully achieve independence.
Daily 5 tasks include:
1. Read to self
2. Read to someone
3. Listen to reading
4. Work on writing
5. Word work
When students can read and write independently during these times, it allows the teacher the opportunity to work with small groups of students to teach and reinforce essential reading skills. Your child will be taught how to select “Good Fit Books,” and we will work to provide a large variety of reading materials for students, from all different genres and print types.
Here is a picture of some PG students hard at work during Daily 5 time:
Many of our teachers plan to utilize The Daily 5 framework in their classes this year. This is a framework that helps best organize time during literacy block to ensure students are engaged in meaningful reading and writing activities. This framework encourages reading independence and gives children the skills needed to create a lifetime love of reading and writing. It consists of five tasks that are introduced individually. It is modeled and supported by teachers throughout implementation. It is not something that is implemented in a week or two, so classes using this framework will be working hard over the next several weeks to fully implement. When each task is introduced, students discuss what it looks like, sounds like, and feels like to engage in the task independently, as teachers model the task. There are specific student behaviors associated with each of the tasks, and there is also a focus on continuing to build a strong classroom community! Students then work towards building “stamina” until they successfully achieve independence.
Daily 5 tasks include:
1. Read to self
2. Read to someone
3. Listen to reading
4. Work on writing
5. Word work
When students can read and write independently during these times, it allows the teacher the opportunity to work with small groups of students to teach and reinforce essential reading skills. Your child will be taught how to select “Good Fit Books,” and we will work to provide a large variety of reading materials for students, from all different genres and print types.
Here is a picture of some PG students hard at work during Daily 5 time:
Here is an example of a typical morning of Daily 5:
9:15-9:30 Whole Group-Teacher Read Aloud
9:30-9:45 Rotation 1-Student choice {teacher meets with students}
9:45-10:00 Whole Group-Grammar Lesson
10:00-10:15 Rotation 2-Student Choice {teacher meets with students}
10:15-10:30 Whole Group-Writing Mini-Lesson
10:30-10:45 Rotation 3-Student Choice {teacher meets with students}
I created a Daily 5 board on Pleasant Grove's Pinterest page so feel free to go there to get some new ideas or pin your own! Have you started using Daily 5 in your classroom? Are you interested in starting Daily 5? Share below and then meet to discuss!
9:15-9:30 Whole Group-Teacher Read Aloud
9:30-9:45 Rotation 1-Student choice {teacher meets with students}
9:45-10:00 Whole Group-Grammar Lesson
10:00-10:15 Rotation 2-Student Choice {teacher meets with students}
10:15-10:30 Whole Group-Writing Mini-Lesson
10:30-10:45 Rotation 3-Student Choice {teacher meets with students}
I created a Daily 5 board on Pleasant Grove's Pinterest page so feel free to go there to get some new ideas or pin your own! Have you started using Daily 5 in your classroom? Are you interested in starting Daily 5? Share below and then meet to discuss!
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