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The Daily Five

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Adapted for a Kindergarten Classroom

The Daily Five is based on the book by two sisters and teachers, Gail Boushey and Joan Moser.

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The Daily Five consists of five elements of literacy. These can also be called centers or stations.

1.Read to Self

2.Listen to Reading

3.Work on Writing

4.Read to Someone

5.Word Work

*Note- I include a Teacher Time station.

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04Read to self

• Introduced second week of school.• Introduce anchor chart and read it together each time.

• Each child chooses a spot to read with a book I have provided.

• First week- read for 2 minutes. We work on building stamina all year long!

• Each student has a personal book box.

05Read to self anchor chart and book boxes

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06Read to self: options

LeapFrog Tag Pens and Readers get kids excited about books!

This is a great option for very low students or students with

behavior problems.

07Read to self: options

Browsing Books (level A-B books) and Math books (used during Math centers) can be read during Read to Self if the students want to read something new.

“I’m tired of my books!” Time to distract others!

08Read to self: options

Poetry Folders have copies of all the weekly poems.

09Listen to Reading

• Introduced third week of school as a whole group.

• After listening, the student draws a picture of their favorite part of the story.

• After the students have become used to routines in the classroom, they can write words about their picture.

10Listen to reading

Students can use iPods and headphones to save space in your classroom.

Headphone splitters are useful!

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After reading, the students write about the story elements: plot, characters, problem, and resolution. Or, they can fill

out a pre-made worksheet.

Listen to reading: later in the year

12Work on writing

•Formally introduced fourth week of school.•Model writing every day. They need to see you write!•Each student has a spiral and a writing folder. •The writing folder contains a decoding chart and a phonics “chunk” chart.•Work on Writing center also has a basket of various writing activities to give the students plenty of options. If there is plenty to do, they are less likely to misbehave.

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•Write in spirals

•Write on page

protectors with sight words inside

•Letter tracing

•Practice writing sight

words on erasable sentence strips

Work on writing: choices

14Work on writing: Word Wall

Every classroom needs a Word Wall as a visual reminder of words the students have learned. Mine is made out of index cards and paper. Easy!

15Work on writing: helpers

Word cards help reinforce correct spelling.

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16Work on writing: writing folder contents

Phonics “chunk” Chart from HeidiSongs.com. Decoding Chart from No More Letter of the Week by Pat Lusche.

17Read to a friend

•Introduced fifth week of school.•Use students to model EEKK- elbow to elbow, knee to knee- reading position. Explicitly teach how to take turns reading the pages, choosing a book, and turning the pages.•Students read with someone in their leveled group from their book boxes.

“Elbow to elbow, knee to knee, I’ll read to you and you read to me.”

18Read to a friend: it’s fun!

19Word Work

•Introduced sixth week of school.•Includes activities related to sight words, CVC words, word families, etc. •All activities can be done without the teacher’s help, however, new activities can be explained to the class prior to adding them.•Activities are changed as needed.

20Word Work: sample activities

Students use the magnifying glass to find and write CVC words. This is one of their favorites!

Students stamp and fill in the missing letter. This is also a favorite because they love stamps!

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21Word work: sample activities

These are all from lakeshorelearning.com.

22Teacher Time

•I use Teacher Time for guided reading most of the time. •I sometimes use this time for assessing for report cards, data folders, and TPRI progress monitoring.•The way my schedule is set up allows me to meet with two groups per day (6-8 students total).•The Daily Five’s emphasis on INDEPENDENCE allows me to really focus on small group instruction! Yay!

23My Daily Five Schedule

24The daily five in my ELAR block9:30 Reading demonstration9:40 First Daily Five rotation10:00 Phonics lesson10:15 Phonics movement songs by HeidiSongs10:20 Writing demonstration10:25 Second Daily Five rotation10:45 Words and paper reader of the week10:55-12:05 Lunch/Recess/Restroom12:05 Phonic chunks of the week lesson and cards12:15 Word families of the week and/or poem of the week12:20 Free write/journal writing