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The Daily 5Restructuring the literacy block
April 2010
What is the Daily 5?
The Daily 5 is more than a management system or a curriculum framework - it is a structure that helps students develop the daily habits of reading, writing, and
working independently that will lead to a lifetime of literacy independence.
"Finding Daily 5 has helped us completely change the environment of our classrooms. Students are able to work independently on reading and writing activities while we work
with small groups and individual students. Our focus has shifted from doing a lot of
preparation work to keep the other students busy, to spending time with students and gathering pertinent information that will
guide our teaching.” (Classroom teacher)
What sets Daily 5 apart ?• Student driven• Fosters engagement• Relies on student independence• Authentic reading and writing tasks• Builds stamina and provides time to read and write daily• Differentiates learning• Allows for more focussed teaching sessions each day• Intentional, explicit teaching• Links reading and writing across the literacy block• Students understand and monitor their own literacy goals• Based on gradual release of responsibility model
Foundational principles
• Trusting students• Providing choice• Nurturing community• Creating a sense of urgency• Building stamina• Establishing routines• Staying out of students’ way
Core elements
• Establish a gathering place• Classroom library• Good-fit or just right books• Individual book boxes• Anchor charts• Repeated practice• Check-in• Signals
What are the daily 5?
Read to self
Read to self
• 3 ways to read a book• Anchor chart (Y chart) • Building reading stamina• I PICK
“Just adding more time and space for independent
reading is not enough. I’m advocating a carefully designed, structured reading program that
includes demonstrating, teaching, guiding,
monitoring, evaluating, and goal setting along with
voluntary reading of books students choose … When an independent reading
component is added, test scores go up.”
(Regie Routman)
What are the daily 5?
Read to self Read to
someone
Read to someone
• EEKK• Check for understanding• I read, you read• Coaching or time?• Choral read• Reading one book• Reading different books
“Reading with someone helps students read
independently, become more self-sufficient,
increases reading involvement, attention
and collaboration.”The Sisters
What are the daily 5?
Listen to
reading
Read to self Read to
someone
Listen to reading
• Listening posts• MP3 players• Websites• Read aloud volunteers
“We need a definite purpose, a specific reason for listening.
Otherwise we don’t pay attention and don’t really hear
or understand.”Robert Montgomery
What are the daily 5?
Listen to
reading
Read to self
Work on
writing
Read to someone
Work on writing
• Supports writer’s workshop / independent writing
• Build writing stamina• Student choice• Focus lesson
“You don’t learn to write by going through a series of
preset writing exercises. You learn to write by grappling
with a real subject that truly matters to you.”Ralph Fletcher
What are the daily 5?
Listen to
reading
Work on
words
Read to self
Work on
writing
Read to someone
Work on words
• Spelling strategies• Time to learn words• Individual word lists• Spelling generalisations• Building vocabulary
“Creating and maintaining time each day to focus on words is critical to developing readers, writers and communicators.”
The Sisters
Teachers need:Reading conference
recordsInstructional and
independent levelsObservations of reading
behavioursRunning recordsPossible strategy groups
Students need:Reader’s notebookRecord of texts readIndividual reading goals
Assessment and monitoring
The most important thing to remember about assessment is that it
should be used to build knowledge about our
students, and determine what they can do.
What are your questions?
The CAFÉ Book by Gail Boushey & Joan Moser
The Daily 5 by Gail Boushey & Joan Moser
http://www.thedailycafe.com
