Daily 5 chart

This post is a follow up to last week's post about how I create, run, and take data on Guided Reading groups. Some of my most popular posts are about my Daily 3 structure: Daily 3 Bootcamp, Introducing the Daily 5, and Word Work. I wrote all three of those posts during my second year teaching, though, and my Daily 3 has continued to evolve since then. I wanted to take you through a breakdown of how I allocate my 60 minutes a day of guided reading time. This year, my guided reading block was…

We're sharing how we set up for Daily 5 rotations! Come check out our pictures and grab FREE resources! Expectations Posters Here's our take on the Daily 5 expectation posters! We keep these posters hanging in the room all year. In the beginning of the year, we continually refer to the posters as kiddos learn the rules and expectations of the Daily 5 routines. After Winter Break, we like to refer back to the posters. After a busy holiday season and a bit of time out of school, the review is…

Hello! Welcome to the next stop on the Bright Ideas Blog Hop! I know I have LOVED reading all the wonderfully bright ideas. :) I hop...

I love reading how teachers run their reading block, and I've been wanting to write this post for a while now, because I am often asked how...

At the beginning of the year with my firsties, I try to encourage good reading behaviours using this (free) reading stamina chart. We discuss what is expected of them and why it is important. We also discuss the meaning of 'stamina' in relation to reading

Hey Friends, Happy Tuesday! 😀 I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. I LOVE the Daily 5. It is such a wonderful way to engage students in reading and writing independently while you get to work with small groups. In my classroom this year, I had used the Daily 5 instead of center time since I couldn’t use…

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Ideas for each of the daily five rotations

Hi! Hope that your summer is great! I love being a teacher, but I think part of the reason I love it so much is because we get those 2 summe...

I've finally begun adding my strategy cards to my CAFE board. Yee-haw! I teach in a very standards driven school so adding the standards to my CAFE board was a no-brainer...why didn't I think of it the first time through? Live and learn! So I'm sharing my copy of my CAFE headings from my board. The format gets messed up every time I load it up as a document to scribd or google docs, so I'm loading 2 files which are pdfs. 1 is the GPS 3rd grade version, one is a plain jane version with only…