Daily 5 kindergarten

If you’ve read my blog before, you probably know that I use a Daily 5 structure to organize our reading time. I love the freedom, choice, and time spent reading/writing it offers my students. One of the most common questions/comments is “My students can’t handle choice. I’m doing Daily 5 just without the choice. My...

Hello friends! Today I’m joining a fabulous group of friends for an online book study of The Daily 5. Over the course of the next 8ish weeks, we’ll be taking a close look at the newest edition of the book and seeing what it looks like in real classrooms. I hope you’ll be joining us....

Daily 5 Literacy Stations!!!! Holy email, you all have a ton of questions, and while I’d love to claim that I’m an expert, I can really only tell you how...

Take a look at how I set up my class and organize my stations for a successful start to Daily 5 in kindergarten.

Each Monday we collaborate with our building's new and Dual Language staff members for a professional development session based on what they highlight as their needs and/or desires for learning! This week we focused on Daily 5 ideas as all of our staff are currently working hard to get their stations and guided reading up and running! The teachers who attending the session came up with a variety of wonderful ideas and activities that could potentially be used throughout the year in these…

I started The Daily 5 this year in kindergarten and I am soooo excited about it! This is what we have been doing each day. Thi...

In my school, we use daily 5 for reading instruction. I set up daily 5 a little bit different. I teach third grade and there is just so much to fit in! When I was trying to fit in all daily 5 rotations a day I was not getting to the important stuff and I was not having enough time with my students. So, I do one rotation a day for 20-30 minutes. The students do each rotations for daily 5 once a week and they meet with me once a week.

What's happening this Wednesday? My first REAL day of Kindergarten (I won't count yesterday!) Today we actually got to a lesson. You know, besides learning how to line up, walk, get drinks, go the bathroom....etc. etc. etc.!!! Today we had our day 1 of Daily 5. I was excited about introducing 3 ways to read a book with kinders. MOST of them said they didn't know how to read and A LOT of them said they didn't think they would learn to read in Kinder (gasp!) Their little eyes were HUGE when I…

Hello! I’m Heather. I share ideas from my classroom at Learning with Mrs. Langley and create resources to help save time in the classroom.

Hi y'all. Currently I am in the process of reading the 2nd edition of Daily Five. I have found that implementing Daily Five framework to be very successful in both my kindergarten and first grade classrooms. Let me admit this, I don't do everything that the two sisters recommend. I make changes and adapt in order to make it fit for my classroom. For the past 3 years, I never gave students the opportunity to make their own choices about where to go for literacy. I, the teacher, would make the…

I started Daily 5 in 2011 and I feel like I am now comfortable enough to blog about it and how I started out. When I first started Daily 5 I was completely lost, I had no idea where to start or what to do. But then I discovered Pinterest, Oh My Word! I was in Education Heaven! I found the Daily 5 for Dummies compiled by Jayne Haenel. Click the picture to grab your copy. It has instructions for the first 20 days of the daily 5 with CAFE instructions also. It's an awesome resource and it has…

Is anyone in need of some Daily 5 station cards, posters, and anchor charts? Just send me an email! lori@teachingwithloveandlaughter.com

It's no surprise that I L.O.V.E technology especially my classroom set of iPads!! {Thank you Title 1!!!} This school year, I was asked to present at our districts Summer Institute about how I have integrated the use of iPads within the Daily 5 framework that I have come to adore! I decided after such great feedback from my presentations that I would share with all of you the great ways to use iPads. {Note: This can be used in any literacy centers, not just Daily 5!} This week I'm going to…

Hello! I’m Heather. I share ideas from my classroom at Learning with Mrs. Langley and create resources to help save time in the classroom.

This anchor charts helps emergent readers understand different ways to read a book.

These simple literacy stations for kindergarten will last you all year! You can easily adjust these activities to optimize student learning and growth.

Take a look at the reality of what really happens on Day One of Daily 5 in this kindergarten classroom.

The Daily 5 matters. Creating readers requires daily, dedicated time to read. We must give students time to fall in love with books.

Daily 5 anchor chart.