Daily 5 The Daily 5™ is a framework for structuring literacy time so students develop lifelong habits of reading, writing, and working independently.
How does it work?
Students participate in five authentic reading and writing activities, working independently toward personalized goals, while the teacher meets individual needs through whole-group and small-group instruction, as well as one-on-one conferring. These choices include
The benefits of The Daily 5
Read to Self Children reading to themselves is the first of The Daily 5 choices to be launched and is the foundation for creating independent readers and writers.
Listen to Reading Listen to Reading provides pronunciation and expression models that can only come from hearing fluent and expressive examples. Because of this, Listen to Reading is especially beneficial to our older struggling readers whose listening comprehension exceeds their reading level.
Read to Someone Of all the choices children participate in, Read to Someone is often their favorite. Reading with someone helps readers, especially developing readers, increase areas of comprehension, accuracy, fluency and prosidy. It also increases reading involvement, attention and collaboration. What's more, children love partner reading and readily participate with books of their choosing.
Word Work During the Word Work time, students experiment with spelling patterns, memorize high-frequency words, and develop a genuine curiosity and interest in new and unique words. By playing with words, word patterns, word families, prefixes, suffixes, and so on, students hone their knowledge of words and increase their writing skills.
Work on Writing The writing component of the Daily 5 provides additional support children require to become effective writers. Its purpose is to provide daily writing practice.
How does it work?
Students participate in five authentic reading and writing activities, working independently toward personalized goals, while the teacher meets individual needs through whole-group and small-group instruction, as well as one-on-one conferring. These choices include
- Read to Self,
- Work on Writing,
- Read to Someone,
- Listen to Reading, and
- Word Work.
The benefits of The Daily 5
- students develop independence, stamina, and accountability;
- less time consumed by classroom management leaves more for instruction;
- improves schoolwide literacy achievement; and
- behaviors of independence transfer to other content areas.
Read to Self Children reading to themselves is the first of The Daily 5 choices to be launched and is the foundation for creating independent readers and writers.
Listen to Reading Listen to Reading provides pronunciation and expression models that can only come from hearing fluent and expressive examples. Because of this, Listen to Reading is especially beneficial to our older struggling readers whose listening comprehension exceeds their reading level.
Read to Someone Of all the choices children participate in, Read to Someone is often their favorite. Reading with someone helps readers, especially developing readers, increase areas of comprehension, accuracy, fluency and prosidy. It also increases reading involvement, attention and collaboration. What's more, children love partner reading and readily participate with books of their choosing.
Word Work During the Word Work time, students experiment with spelling patterns, memorize high-frequency words, and develop a genuine curiosity and interest in new and unique words. By playing with words, word patterns, word families, prefixes, suffixes, and so on, students hone their knowledge of words and increase their writing skills.
Work on Writing The writing component of the Daily 5 provides additional support children require to become effective writers. Its purpose is to provide daily writing practice.