At my school this year a few of the teachers are
incorporating The Daily 5 as a large component of their language arts
program. We really want our
students to have the skills to choose “good fit” books for themselves and feel
successful at reading which will, in turn, foster a reading culture without our school. This
program is about students understanding how to choose books for themselves at
their own reading level and trying their best to slowly build reading stamina. There are five areas that this program
focuses on: read to self, read with someone, listen to reading, word work, and
work on writing.
I
really like this program because I can collaborate with classroom teachers on
this and use the same program in the library. I teach the umbrella lessons and use the same consistent
language that teachers are using. There are a few resources that can be used to implement this
program as well as endless ideas on how to supplement it in the classroom. There is the Daily 5 Book by Gail
Boushey and Joan Moser (“the sisters”) as well as the companion book called
CAFÉ by the same authors which focuses a lot on how to set up the classroom to run
this program. I was part of a
professional learning group last year where we had the opportunity to explore
CAFÉ. I highly recommend checking
out the books. I have referenced
the links down below. The sisters
have also just released a new edition of the Daily 5 book which has a Daily 3
math component to it as well. We
just received copies at my school for the staff so I am looking forward to
diving into that one as well.
These books are very straightforward and the lessons an routines are clearly laid out making this
program easy to implement in the classroom.
Here is a picture of a poster I created for my library to
help students choose "good fit" books.
I got the idea from Pinterest!
I
do the majority of my Daily 5 lessons at the beginning of the year so my goal
is to find ways to revisit the lessons in a different way throughout the
year. I also would like to
continue to constantly use the language even more than I do already so that
students can fully understand and build on the skill of choosing “good fit”
books for themselves. Finally, I
would like to create more visuals in the library that feature these concepts
that students can refer to.
Here are some links to some helpful websites:
Here is a YouTube video giving a quick breakdown
of how this program works.
References:
Boushey, Gail & Moser, Joan. The Daily 5 Second Edition,
Stenhouse Publishers, 2014.
Boushey, Gail & Moser, Joan. The Daily 5 Fostering
Literacy Independence in the
Elementary Grades, Stenhouse Publishers, 2006.
Elementary Grades, Stenhouse Publishers, 2006.
Boushey, Gail & Moser, Joan. The CAFÉ Book,
Stenhouse Publishers, 2009.
YouTube. “Daily 5 and Cafe at Dodgeland”. Online video clip.
YouTube, 24 April 2011.
The Daily 5 is a great recommendation for encouraging and supporting reading skills in your school. Great discussion of the challenges in making sure students are reading something just right for them. I loved your poster! Some great links and good multi-media included as well. One aspect to work on is to add Labels to your blog posts to help organize them by keyword, (meta-tagging). It is a great strategy for organizing all the blog posts on your blog for later.
ReplyDeleteHello Harpreet - many of our teachers are using the Daily 5 strategies as well. Two of our primary teachers have included using the SMARTBoard as one of the reading stations. They put an online book onto the SMARTBoard (from our public library, storylineonline, or tumblebooks, etc). Students listen to the story, practice reading along, etc. then do other Daily 5 activities based on the book of the day.
ReplyDeleteHi Harpreet, I am familiar with the Daily 5 program and have used it for several years as a classroom teacher. I appreciate your comment about using this as a point of collaboration with other teachers and supporting them through the programs use in the library - great idea! Also, I didn't know that the sisters came out with a math resources as well. I'm interested to check that out.
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