The Daily Five

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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 years, and shared with thousands of teachers throughout the United States. The Daily Five is a series of literacy tasks (reading to self, reading with someone, writing, word work, and listening to reading) which students complete daily while the teacher meets with small groups or confers with individuals.

This book not only explains the philosophy behind the structure, but shows you how to carefully and systematically train your students to participate in each of the five components.

Explicit modeling practice, reflecting and refining take place during the launching phase, preparing the foundation for a year of meaningful content instruction tailored to meet the needs of each child.

The Daily Five is more than a management system or a curriculum framework; it is a structure that will help students develop the habits that lead to a lifetime of independent literacy.

What Customers Say About The Daily Five:

It was easy to implement this, even though I started in January. This program allows me to do this, and gives me the tools to document my interventions. As a second year teacher teaching a combined 2/3 class, I was looking for a solid approach to my morning literacy block. Law now requires that I meet with students who are having difficulties in small groups on a daily basis. I Love this book and the companion Cafe book, and plan to continue using this program, no matter what elementary grade I teach. I found that and more with this book, combined with the Cafe Book. This book is perfect for helping new teachers guide their students towards reading independence.

I simply love it. My students have THRIVED on the choices, and have become way more responsible and careful with their actions. I am only implementing 4 of the Daily Five (not doing Listen to Reading at this time, however, I have stepped up on my reading to them). This is an awesome method to use in your classroom. It has helped me cut waaayyyyy back on prep time, organizational time and struggling with classroom management during literacy time.

The "daily five" are: read to yourself, read to someone, work on writing, listen to reading, and spelling/word work. Gail Boushey and Joan Moser have come up with a well-researched, well-tested, clearly-presented system that will be adaptable to most elementary classroom situations. The authors clearly explain how to model and support these skills so that students can work on each element for extended periods of time, leaving the teacher free to work with small groups and individual students.I will most definitely be using their system as the basis of my own classroom management this year and am looking forward to observing how the daily five will work in my situation. I bought this book looking for inspiration and hoping that it would contain useful ideas for organising my classroom. I was not disappointed.

Love the book. It is in great condition with no markings, and it arrived very quickly.

It is a quick read and easy to put into place. We were so busy making centers filled with little pieces that were getting lost, and trying to keep track of what everyone was doing, grading it, and making sure that they were getting the things they needed to be good readers was overwhelming.This book made the idea of centers easy to do and management of the centers, manageable. I started this concept in the middle of the year, and was amazed at how much my kids responded to it, and how much more time I had at home. This book was given to me by our Principal. Many of us were feeling overwhelmed by center management.