These CAFE posters will help you teach all the strategies in the CAFE book for Daily Five. ComprehensionAccuracyFluencyExpand VocabularyIt includes all of the strategies that you will teach to your students for each heading. I have added a teacher checklist so that you can keep track of all of the s...
à lire, à bâtir, à écrire carte - read, build, write (printable) "À lire, à bâtir, à écrire" work with words literacy kits and...
They are doing it! My kids are actually doing daily five and really enjoying it. My grade level partners and I tried this a few years back, but honestly we
Ok it is all kinds of embarrassing that it has taken me this long to blog about my Work on Words setup and activities. My BFF Marisa over ...
Hi y'all. Currently I am in the process of reading the 2nd edition of Daily Five. I have found that implementing Daily Five framework to be ...
Hi there again and thank so much for dropping in to see my latest virtual presentation: All About Daily Five in Kindergarten! If you haven’t listened to my guided reading virtual presentation you can click HERE to view that! Also, this presentation is how I’ve made Daily Five work the best in MY classroom…this is by no means...
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Teach your little ones about the climate and weather with this gorgeous piece. Change the daily weather with weather conditions, wind, temperature, humidity, and precipitation. This board has four movable parts and five different weather symbols. Dimensions: Board - 11.6" x 9.4" x 1.1" Age Recommendation: 3+ Made with: FSC Solid Beech Wood, Non Toxic Water Based Paint Created by: Moon Picnic Made in Vietnam Choking hazard. Contains small parts.
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A Kindergarten/First Grade blog
I love the structure of Daily 5 and CAFE, I've made these signs for my classroom and wanted to share these all with you! I hope you can use these! Come on over to my blog to pick them up!
Tales from a Kindergarten Classroom
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1. Do you trust your students? How do you build this trust? Are you able to trust them and allow them to be independent throughout all aspects of your day? Are you going to be able to stay out of their way? To be honest.. in my 3 years of experience I have given very little trust. It's not that I don't want to, it's just a lot harder than it seems. I guess that's why they call it trust! Of course I have had those students that I could have left in charge and then on the opposite end those sweet little friends you cannot turn your back from.. However, this year I plan on allowing the students to hold themselves more accountable. So that means-- TRUST! Because I cannot just assume they will do everything that I ask.. I am going to use this little checklist. That way they will know what still needs to be finished before the end of the week! My class will only have time for 3 choices each day.. so I only have 15 pictures on the page. I will add others with more pictures for those of you lucky enough to have more time during reading. (The adorable clipart is from Melonheadz.) 2. How much choice do you give your students throughout the day? Do you go over your daily schedule with your students or is it just 'posted' in the room? I have never really offered much "choice" before.. this is really new for me! But very exciting too! I have always had assigned groups that rotate around the room in assigned literacy centers. You could tell by November some of them were very bored with the activities. I would switch them up as much as possible.. but I think it will help allowing them a say in how they learn for each day. I plan to thoroughly introduce each center before implementing, but the idea of choice-- I know will make them more satisfied with their work and success! 3. How are you going to create that sense of community where students will hold each other accountable? The first few weeks of school are spent discussing rules, procedures, class community, etc... I also always read the book The Crayon Box That Talked. It talks about how each color is unique, but together they can work to make a masterpiece. I think this year, instead of just having my rules posted.. I want my kids to be a part of coming up with the rules. I have seen other teachers make charts that each child gets to sign. Not only did they help come up with the rules but their class mates witnessed them agreeing to them as well! 4. Student ownership in learning? How do you instill this in every child? I always hate hearing, "Why do we have to do this?".... This is something I have struggled with in my teaching. Explaining why we are learning something! Or why I am reading this book, writing this sentence, etc... This year in TN our observations changed. Well, one thing I do like about them (maybe the only thing) is the fact that in your lesson you have to state the standard and explain what you are teaching. Of course some standards are hard to understand-- but it is still very important for kids to know why they are doing/learning/experiencing what is required. 5. Stamina! How are you going to build stamina with reading? independent work? Will you use a timer? Will you set goals? I am not quite sure how to implement this. I think it's incredibly important!! But I think I will need to come up with some kind of system: whether in a binder, on note cards or just a spiral notebook. I want to come up with something to keep track of my kiddos on a daily basis, instead of just during their 9 weeks assessments! Later this week head on over to Tammy's blog to discuss Chapter 3!
Do you teach upper grades? These strategies and tips for using Daily Five are perfect for grades 3-5. Learn how to make Daily 5 work in your classroom.
These CAFE posters will help you teach all the strategies in the CAFE book for Daily Five. The bright neon colors will grab your students' attention and look great in any classroom and make teaching the strategies much easier and more fun for your students. ComprehensionAccuracyFluencyExpand Vocabul...
These Daily Five posters use the word RIGHT as a way to help kids remember all the components for each activity. The Daily Five is a great way to promote literacy independence. The posters are meant to be used as an aid to keep little ones on task. There are 9 posters (8.5 X 11) one each for: Read to Self Read to Someone Work with Words Listen to Reading Work on Writing Work with the Teacher Sit EEKK style I Pick Hope they can help you with the Daily 5 in your class. The Daily 5 and Café are trademark and copy written content of Educational Design, LLC, dba The 2 Sisters. Educational Design LLC, dba The 2 Sisters does not authorize or endorse these materials.
Hi Friends! Like many of you, I am a huge fan of the daily five. We are in our sixth week of school and my kids are getting it. They are working independently on engaging and purposeful tasks and I am able to assess students and work in small groups. Love it! :) The only issue I ever have is taking grades. It can be challenging. I like to give mini reading assessments after we've worked on a skill for a while, but I am supposed to have 8-9 grades per 9 weeks. I feel it is very important to hold my students accountable for their work during daily five so last year, I graded them on how they did during daily five. I use the Words Their Way phonics and spelling program, so I incorporated that into word work. I require my students to complete a closed sort and record the sort in their word work notebooks. They can do many other things during word work time but that is a mandatory activity that I take a grade on. I also require them to complete reading response pages. Right now, it's just ONE a week. I'm starting easy because they are still young and getting into the routine. I will raise the bar as the year goes on and my students become more fluent readers and writers. I also include work habits as part of their grade. It's obvious who is off task, book shopping too much or using a volume that is not appropriate. When the kids know they are being graded on this it really helps them refocus. I'm attaching our daily five menu (which they must complete throughout the week and return to me on Friday) along with their grading rubric. I have them staple all their responses to the menu and I check their word work notebooks on Friday. It can be a lot of work but I feel it really makes our daily five time effective and it holds my students accountable. Do you do daily five? If so, how do you take grades? Just curious! Happy teaching! :)
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The Daily Five and Café are part of a literacy model developed by Gail Boushey and Joan Moser. Along the bottom of the Daily Fiv...
These CAFE posters will help you teach all the strategies in the CAFE book for Daily Five. The bright colors will grab your students' attention and look great in any classroom and make teaching the strategies much easier and more fun for your students. The smaller size will also make it easier to di...
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Here is my weekly daily five/CAFE update... This week we focused on characters and on the CAFE strategy "retelling a story using the characters". We also added the strategy "recognizing sight words
These CAFE posters will help you teach all the strategies in the CAFE book for Daily Five.ComprehensionAccuracyFluencyExpand VocabularyIt includes all of the strategies that you will teach to your students for each heading. I have added a teacher checklist so that you can keep track of all of the sk...
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Hello Everyone! Thanks for stopping by to take a peek!! I've had some questions about what I do for the "Work on Writing" component of Daily 5. Among other written expression activities, I reserve a lot of time for the kids to do a Reader's Response piece in their journals. This is another reason why I love Daily 5. The opportunity to build wonderful connections between reading and writing is made so relevant. What is learned in one area can be used to extend the other. Reading and writing are so related on every level of literacy development! Because of this, writing about what we have been reading can be purposeful, relevant, and functional! Sometimes I give the kids a prompt, and other times I let them choose from some response prompt cards. I just finished revamping my cards for the first semester. I will do more that deal with nonfiction reading later. Here are some pics of some of the journal entries, and a pic of the first few pages in my packet. ***If you are one of my kids reading this, print off the cards and get reading and writing. I know it's summer, but what a better time to enjoy some good books and practice writing!!! Love you!! Mrs. V! My kids use a simple composition journal for most responses. for your 9 page free printable of our reader's response cards click here! :) Have fun and Keep Reading and Writing!! Joyfully! Nancy
I do the Daily 5. I love {almost} everything about the Daily 5 and I find myself modifying it for my kiddos {which is exactly how it should be}. Word work can seem like a management mess. But it's not! You just give your expectations by making those lovely handwritten anchor charts and going over them and over them and over them {and building their stamina}. After I think they've got it, I transfer those handwritten anchor charts and cutesify them. I mostly do this because of lack of space {those charts take up a lot of space} I'm OCD. Sorry ya'll! Due to copyright, I'm not allowed to share this {I emailed the Sisters and they said no, but I totally understand!} but I did want to show you what I hang up next to my word work spot. I love doing the non-examples of what to do in word work. "Boys and girls, who can raise their hand and show us what not to do during word work". About a million hands fly up! One of my boys started showing us word work and from what we were all seeing, it looked correct. But before I knew it, he was using the letter stamps and stamping his face. We all about died laughing. Needless to say, no one has ever even come close to getting a dab of ink on their skin since then. :) Here's my tip for word work: MAKE IT SIMPLE. There's no need to make 10 sets of cutesy word work centers to put in your bins. I have my bins like this {and a stack of paper on the side that they use a lot during word work}: Here's a close-up of some of the labels: Click {here} to download Don't you just LOVE the polka dot borders? Head over to Karen's TpT store and download them for FREE! They practice their spelling words {or spelling rule} during word work and they know how to use all of these supplies. I also have a bin labeled "weekly activities". This is where your cute themed activity can go for the week {just choose one}. Right now I have one of Abby's Long A Word Work activities in there. Love it because it's just what my kiddos need to practice their spelling rule this week {a_e}. They can choose one activity and they must stick with that activity for the whole round {unless they choose the weekly activity...when they finish that they can choose a different activity}. I have my spelling words posted on the board and they just practice away! I have a menu they can glance at too: Click {here} to download Is word work working for you? P.S. I'll be posting another font/clipart post SOON. Check back for that. And you know what I realized? My "Ode to Kevin and Amanda Fonts" didn't show up on some computers {I actually used the fonts in my poem}...so go back and read it by clicking {here}. Fonts by Kevin and Amanda at www.kevinandamanda.com Fonts by Miss Tiina at www.misstiina.com Fonts by DJ Inkers at www.djinkers.com
Take a deep dive into the common 5 structure options for your ELA literacy block with benefits of each outlined in an informative & actionable manner.
