Daily 5
Daily 5 is a literacy framework that encourages independence, creates a classroom of highly engaged readers, writers, and learners, and provides teachers with time and structure to meet diverse student needs. Daily 5 classrooms produce productive, highly engaged students who develop a true love of literacy, literature and language. It holds no curricular content, so can be used to meet any school, district, state, or national standards.
During Daily 5, students select from five authentic reading and writing choices, working independently toward personalised goals, while the teacher meets individual needs through whole-group and small-group instruction, as well as one-on-one conferring.
Daily 5 Tasks
During Daily 5, students select from five authentic reading and writing choices, working independently toward personalised goals, while the teacher meets individual needs through whole-group and small-group instruction, as well as one-on-one conferring.
Daily 5 Tasks
- Read to self
- Read to someone
- Listen to reading
- Word Work
- Work on Writing
During the last few years of teaching I have integrated some key ideas and learning from Daily 5 philosophy. I enjoy using Daily 5 as it allows for choice, collaboration, challenge within the classroom context. Children have choice of activities within each rotation, they also have choice with whom they work with during collaborative rotations and tasks can be individually differentiated creating challenge.
Choice in rotations comes in two forms.
- The ability to choose from 5 rotations in any order.
- The ability to choose what hands on resource or learning tool they will use to complete the rotation.
- In Year 2, children chose between publishing their writing via computer processing (google docs), ipads (Book Creator App) or hand written.
- In Year 1 children, chose their manipulative material to write out their weekly spelling -chalk, playdough, pipe cleaners, highlighters and sparkly pens, alphabet beads.
- In Prep, children chose to use the listening post (CD) or an App (Epic, storylineonline) on the ipad for listening to reading. They could also choose to listen with a partner using shared headphones.
- The children look forward to DEAR sessions when they can choose a partner to read with.
- This can be further extended by giving children specific choices (read with any child in the room, read with someone in the same reading group as you, someone in the same strategy group, someone from a different group).