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The Daily Five: Fostering Literacy Independence in the Elementary Grades
Do you love teaching but feel exhausted from the energy you expend cajoling, disciplining, and directing students on a daily basis? If so, you'll want to meet "The Sisters," Gail Boushey and Joan Moser. Based on literacy learning and motivation research, they created a structure called The Daily Five which has been practiced and refined in their own classrooms for ten year...more
Paperback, 126 pages
Published
January 1st 2006
by Stenhouse Pub
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8/5/11 ** An excellent introduction to a process by which teachers can help their children learn routines for independent reading and writing. The authors describe five literacy tasks which students should engage in daily: Reading to Self, Reading to Others, Listening to Reading, Work on Writing, and Word Work.
Explicit teaching, anchor charts, correct & incorrect modeling, and self-reflection are all part of helping students increase their levels of independence. The more independent studen...more
Explicit teaching, anchor charts, correct & incorrect modeling, and self-reflection are all part of helping students increase their levels of independence. The more independent studen...more
My mom is a second grade teacher and school district reading/writing specialist. She teaches and conducts reading and writing workshops. I told her about this book before the start of school last year and she implemented it when school started. She has raved about how much this book has helped her class. My mom said her class is reading more and writing more than they ever have and they have made more progress than previous classes. My favorite story of my mom's use of this method was during the...more
Jan 08, 2012
Jason
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What an excellent idea! The authors articulate a very simple, yet comprehensive strategy for making sure you are covering what is really the important parts of reading instruction. Our teachers are extremely excited about beginning to use the Daily 5 in their everyday work. If you're an elementary teacher, I'd highly encourage you to take a look at this book and see how it could work for you. It isn't a curriculum, but rather a structure within which you can work whatever curriculum that you hap...more
Wow. That's all I can say. Wow.
First, I just read a professional development book in a few hours. Second, it was awesome! I am very interested in putting the Daily 5 into practice this school year. I do or have done most elements of the process, but not all at the same time and not with the population of students I have now.
I quickly and deeply related with their stories of assigning (and grading) mounds of busy work, then not even being able to have a successful, uninterrupted small group. I sp...more
First, I just read a professional development book in a few hours. Second, it was awesome! I am very interested in putting the Daily 5 into practice this school year. I do or have done most elements of the process, but not all at the same time and not with the population of students I have now.
I quickly and deeply related with their stories of assigning (and grading) mounds of busy work, then not even being able to have a successful, uninterrupted small group. I sp...more
"The Sisters" have combined their knowledge of researchers such as Fountas & Pinnell, Lucy Calkins, Stephanie Harvey, Nancie Atwell and developed a comprehensive, easy to understand system for fostering a love of reading. Students move thru the Daily Five choosing from Word Work, Writing, Reading to Self, Reading to Someone Else, and Listening to Reading while the teacher is able to pull small groups and have individual conferences. For upper grades they suggest cutting down to the Daily Thr...more
Unfortunately, I read this for a masters degree course and I found nothing for secondary education teachers to do to adapt this program to a non-elementary level classroom. For the most part, the entire book details how to manage your classroom to start this program, then everything else just magically falls into place. I can see why this program is popular with elementary teachers because it does set clear expectations with younger students to become more independent and gives the teacher(s) in...more
And now, to put it into practice! I have been searching for a better way to teach reading. One group working with me, one group doing a meaningless worksheet and one group apparently in a free-for-all solo group created a situation where no one was really learning or making the kind of progress I knew each kiddo could make. I also knew that the solution lay in teaching the children to be independent learners and self-sufficient so that I could get on with the business of teaching differentiated...more
Scott used this at his school back in Texas, and seemed to be making great strides in reading and writing. I got this book so I can implement some of the skills at home to help him. But I think I will use the skills learned in this book for helping my children become more independent with other things as well- chores and church being the two I am most excited about.
Some skills from the book that I plan to use: teach why we are doing , model correct and incorrect behavior, practice, and have mate...more
Some skills from the book that I plan to use: teach why we are doing , model correct and incorrect behavior, practice, and have mate...more
I was excited when I saw there was going to be an online public read of this book at the CAFE Book over at We Read, We Blog, We Teach. I like activities like this. I downloaded the Kindle version of this en vogue educational book.
I came to the Daily 5 knowing nothing about it. It took until chapter 3 before I got a good sense as to what it is. For the most part, the Daily 5 is what we have been doing in the classroom already. A couple of the middle chapters organized my thoughts around a few thi...more
I came to the Daily 5 knowing nothing about it. It took until chapter 3 before I got a good sense as to what it is. For the most part, the Daily 5 is what we have been doing in the classroom already. A couple of the middle chapters organized my thoughts around a few thi...more
This book is great at explaining clearly to teachers what should be the overall vision of teaching literacy and how to get there. Not only did the authors do a great job at explain the why behind their teaching skills, but they also break their process down into what occurs the first 5 weeks of school. Which, for me, is the hardest time of school! It's great to have a guide showing you every step of the way. AND it teaches kids how to work independently without needed teacher assistance! Now stu...more
I have spent most of a school year implementing the daily 5 management system. I find that this will work for most students, and is a positive system for children to learn to become more independent in reading and language arts. I was amazed this year that I had more students that wanted to read to self and looked forward to the time to do this. I loved the read to someone section also. I used my own coaching sheets and students were very successful reading to each other. However, there are just...more
Mar 29, 2010
Marika Gillis
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One of the best parts of my job as a literacy coach at an elementary school is providing professional development for the teachers. I especially like this part of my job when the teachers have specifically requested a certain kind of professional development and I get to put it together! That's what happened recently with our Daily Five Book Study. The teachers came together weekly and we discussed the information in this book.
The Daily Five is a management system for teachers that engages stude...more
The Daily Five is a management system for teachers that engages stude...more
Great philosophy and excellent step-by-step instructions for implementation. My one complaint is that the sisters don't include many ideas for adapting the Daily 5 for use with a traditional reading series. District regulations prevent me from being able to do true daily 5 since I need to teach using the basal reading program, and I would really have benefitted from some of the sisters' insight on adapting Daily 5. Still, it was a great read and it definitely changed how I'm teaching literacy!
This was a quick read. I think they are on to something here... and with some modifications for upper grades, I look forward to implementing many of these ideas this year. I think this whole movement can be transformational in education. It's one of those "why didn't I think of that?" books. It's definitely a teacher-friendly book, with lots of charts, etc. to help you put the plan into practice. I am looking forward to working with my colleagues on adapting the Daily 5 to fit our 6th grade this...more
Although this book is definitely geared more towards elementary educators, it is chock full of useful advice and insight into successfully implementing reader's workshop in the classroom. The authors did a fantastic job explaining the how-tos and ideas surrounding the various components of the program. The book was easy to read and understand. While only 3 of the five aspects discussed and introduced in the book apply to sixth grade, the information is very applicable to all grade levels.
This was an amazing book! It was very informative and interesting. I truly think that every educator can benefit from this book. The method that these women present is intriguing and promising. I love that they break down each part of the "Daily 5" to a very comprehensible level. With the guidance provided in this book, anyone could implement the "Daily 5" in their classroom! I am definitely interested in picking up the book that compliments this one. Definitely an incredible professional develo...more
Would love to incorporate this into my classroom. Very innovative way of integrating literacy and behavior management. This year I'm going to try out a few elements (or all on a small scale) and see how it goes. Overall, though, this book is a quick read that does a great job explaining the rationale behind their literacy ideas and simply explains how to get started. If the book excites you, they also have a website with videos, msg boards, and updated articles.
Great Book! This is a very quick read that is well-written and practical. This book offers a clear framework for implementing meaningful independent work while teachers work with guided reading or other small groups. I plan to use this book when I return to the classroom this fall. No crazy centers to maintain, just good techniques to train students how to read independently, with partners, and write independently. I'm looking forward to reading the companion book about assessment, The Cafe Book...more
There are quite a few ideas in this book that I'd like to incorporate into my literacy teaching for the upcoming school year. Unfortunately, I'm also left with quite a few questions. I would have liked the sections to be a bit more in depth in terms of implementation after the initial introduction of each of the daily 5 elements. Specifically, I'd like more information about setting up and maintaing individual book boxes, and the use of journals or other devices, particulary for the word work an...more
This 2006 book about “fostering literacy independence in the early grades” is already familiar to many elementary teachers, but I had not read it before. “The sisters,” as the authors are known, have set out some explicit lessons to help students build their independence in picking books, reading to themselves, and reading to others. I’m already thinking about how I can adapt these for my library classes, given time and schedule constraints. Boushey and Mosers’ confident attitude about student i...more
This book and its companion Cafe together make a great pair for setting up a working reader's workshop in the elementary grades. It helped me rethink what I was doing and come up with better systems for doing it. Quick and easy to read, full of useful suggestions. So glad someone recommended this to me!
An excellent, practical resource for setting up a language arts block in an elementary classroom. It seems very well structured and really emphasizes specific methods for teaching students to work independently, freeing the teacher up to work with small groups and individuals as needed. I can't speak to its success in the classroom since I haven't actually implemented it yet, but I believe that I will plan to use it this fall.
Jul 14, 2011
Jill
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4 of 5 stars
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teachers!
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Jen at Harrison!
This is a great teaching book about setting up your classroom for literacy amazingness!
In this book, the authors give you step-by-step mini-lessons on how to help your students to become independent and work on their reading and writing skills. The plan seems like it is definitely feasible in a classroom, and I will need a framework like this so that I can meet with my grade level groups and not be worried about chaos in the rest of the room.
I'm so glad I bought this book. :)
In this book, the authors give you step-by-step mini-lessons on how to help your students to become independent and work on their reading and writing skills. The plan seems like it is definitely feasible in a classroom, and I will need a framework like this so that I can meet with my grade level groups and not be worried about chaos in the rest of the room.
I'm so glad I bought this book. :)
Another teaching book.... just have to get away from this "testing means everything" track we are on in education and find ways to turn kids into readers. Daily five is about how to get kids to read and write independently so that the teacher can work with small groups or individual students. There are a few things I will change in my own classroom, but they were very explicit and I'm excited to try this next year.
I love this text! It is a great professional resource for teachers of all grades. Two sisters developed the concept of Daily Five. There classrooms are designed to foster literacy skills as well as independence. The Daily Five concept revolves around the concept of I- charts and independent student learning. This is an excellent text that helps teachers to develop student led classrooms and student led learning.
Jan 31, 2011
Nina
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4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
elementary teachers
Recommended to Nina by:
Nicole Colquhoun
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This sounds like a great program! As an intervention teacher I haven't been able to put it into practice yet, but I can't wait to have my own classroom and try this out. My friend, who teaches second grade, uses this program and has been very successful using it! You can also find many videos on the internet that can help to show certain features such as "good fit" books and setting up your room.
The only thing I can say that is negative about this is that these ladies contradict themselves a lo...more
The only thing I can say that is negative about this is that these ladies contradict themselves a lo...more
I read this book as part of a study with teachers at my school. While I won't be implementing the structure directly, the book helped me understand how to use modeling for teaching behaviors and skills. Invaluable to me since I've been out of the classroom for so long. Even though I'm not going back into the classroom, being in a primary school library with a fixed schedule is pretty close.
Jan 29, 2009
Alexis
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5 of 5 stars
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Teachers of the World
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This is exactly what I needed at the exact right time. My students are already very independent and I want to continue to push them in the right direction. This book provided a structure in which to teach literacy with in the context of a workshop model - it give you room to work one-on-one or in small groups! (I know... Crazy!)
Easy read, simple instructions, provides ideas as well as launch plans. There is also a great section of Q&A troubleshooting.
Easy read, simple instructions, provides ideas as well as launch plans. There is also a great section of Q&A troubleshooting.
Wonderful system for getting students excited about developing their reading skills. The CAFE is the guide for how to implement the Daily 5 strategies, you really need both books!
I got to see (and implement some) this reading program in action during student teaching and it was awesome but requires dedication because it takes a huge chunk of the school day to implement all the components.
I got to see (and implement some) this reading program in action during student teaching and it was awesome but requires dedication because it takes a huge chunk of the school day to implement all the components.
I am currently using the Daily 5 as the organizational structure in my room. I am excited that students have developed not only stamina but also independence. My grade one students can work productively for at least 20 minutes without me prompting and prodding them along. They are also very proud of their successes and are eager to share with the class what they have accomplished. LOVE it!
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