Hacking the Daily Five
@MsVictoriaOlson

Link Name	Link
Daily 5 Resource Folder (Save to your Drive)	bit.ly/RSMBFolderD5
Hacking the Daily 5 Doc (Make a copy if you want to edit/take personal notes)	bit.ly/RSMBDocD5
Your own Daily 5 Planning (Make a copy and edit the red text to hack the Daily 5 for yourself)	bit.ly/RSMBPlanningD5

DAILY 5 DISCLAIMER:

I use the Daily 5 framework in my classroom to structure self-directed and independent literacy time. By no means do I follow the book’s recommendations to a tee or structure every single aspect in the exact manner that they suggest. You shouldn’t, either.

MAKE IT YOUR OWN. HACK IT.

The Daily 5 vs. CAFE

The Daily 5 is a set of 5 key literacy activities that students should be practicing daily in order to become fluent in reading and writing skills.

CAFE is a focus on specific aspects of reading skills and strategies that students can utilize - a CAFE menu - so that they can become more proficient readers.

You can use them both in conjunction with each other as authors recommend, but I just used Daily 5 this year, not CAFE (but maybe I will soon!).

Major Cornerstones of the Daily 5 Program For Me:

Students self-direct and choose their own activities throughout the Language Arts period
Students are responsible and accountable for work that is due each week
Students learn to prioritize which jobs are more important for them to attend to
Students reinforce each other as a community in the process of completing their work

Read To Self

5 Objectives of Read To Self (“I” Chart - self check-in for students):

I read the whole time
I stay in one spot (where to sit - avoid distractions)
I read quietly
I work on stamina (the ability to self-regulate, persevere, and continue to work toward objectives)
I get started right away

Non-Tech Activities	Tech Activities
Designated Read-To-Self area and class library IPICK good-fit books, 3 ways to read, and I-Chart for students to refer to	iBook libraries (iPads) downloaded stories books the kids have created themselves (BookCreator app)
Personalized student book bags	Links to school-wide eBook folders on cloud-based applications (Drive, DropBox)
Library visits	Access to kid-friendly sites and search engines

Read to Self Group Activity

Borrow an iPad from me or open your own iPad that has Explain Everything ($2.99) downloaded onto it
We will walk through a workflow of how to record your own reading and save it to the cloud
When you are done, please explore and update the red text in your Daily 5 planning document for the Read to Self section

Read To Someone

Objective:

Students reading aloud to one another can have positive benefits on their motivation to read, fluency, reading rate, and word-attack skills

Non-Tech Activities

Tech Activities

I Read, You Read

Students each have their own copy of the same book. They take turns reading a page or a paragraph.

Choral Read

Partners read the same section of the book aloud at the same time

Reading One Book

Partners choose one book and take turns reading paragraphs

Student pairs record reading on screencasting applications like Explain Everything or Educreations

Options

Each student pre-records their own and shares with a partner
Students record together, including comprehension conversations
Listening to the playback to check their reading

Designated Read To Someone area of the classroom

Personalized partnerships or reading groups so that kids are engaging with peers of their ability levels

Check for understanding

Once reading with partner is complete, they create a PicCollage or a Popplet diagram outlining what they read

Read to Someone Group Activity

Listen to your reading that you recorded together with a partner
Add a slide to your screencast that has a 30 second - 1 minute conversation between your and your partner of what happened in the story

Use those iPads to create a Popplet or PicCollage together to reinforce understandings between partners who read the same selection
When you are done, please explore and update the red text in your Daily 5 planning document for the Read to Someone section

Listen to Reading

Objective:

Students hear positive reading models for self-regulation strategies, fluency, volume, tone & expression.

Non-Tech Activities

Tech Activities

Noisy Reading

Parent volunteers come in to read stories to their children

Listening to an audiobook or video reading

Tumblebooks (link - required subscription)
Appropriate songs with lyrics visible on screen

Daily or Bi-Daily Read-Alouds

Teacher or students select books for classroom read alouds

Check for understanding

Once reading with partner is complete, they create a PicCollage or a Popplet diagram outlining what they read

Guest Read-Aloud

Invite the principal or teacher librarian to do a read-aloud with your class
Students have exposure to different readers

Comprehension Check-ins

Once listening to a reading is complete, they create a PicCollage or a Popplet diagram outlining what they read

Listen to Reading Group Activity

Team up with one of my iPads or go to Tumblebooks.
You can log-in with the following (both case-sensitive):

username: SD36-BC
password: SD36

When you are done, please explore and update the red text in your Daily 5 planning document for the Listen to Reading section

Work on Writing

Objective:

Students write fluently with a consideration for audiences beyond their teacher.

Non-Tech Activities

Tech Activities

Personal Journaling (with prompts or independent)

each student has own personal journal

Blogging

Use a platform such as Kidblog to share writing (settings adjustable for who views it)
Google Docs are great to give feedback before work gets copied into Kidblog

Graphic Organizers

students document planning of a written piece

Read, Collaborate, and Comment on Digital Media

Access Kidblogs of other classes (in school or outside) and leave thoughtful commentary
Peer edit and collaborate on Google Docs

Paper Blogging (link)

Students “blog” on paper and share with classmates who can “comment” on their peers’ writing with Post-It notes

Collaborative Twitter/Social Media Challenges

Students could alternate writing sentences of a story shared to a common hashtag

Writing in Response and Reflection

Students write pieces in responses to another Daily 5 station (I.e. Respond from reading you’ve listened to or a class read-aloud)
Students write about events and learning from the classroom

Docs story builder

Students write a story with characters at docsstorybuilder.appspot.com/
They can render and share a video of the conversation between the characters getting typed out

Work on Writing Group Activity

Go to shared folder or click here and make a copy to go through the activity with Google Docs and student blogging
When you are done, please explore and update the red text in your Daily 5 planning document for the Work on Writing section

Word Work

Non-Tech Activities

Tech Activities

Word Sorts

Open and/or closed word sorts

Open: sort into categories on your own
Closed: sort into pre-determined categories

SpellingCity App (Paid app for feature upgrades listed)

personalized spelling list and games for each student (can be grouped according to ability level)

Bananagrams, Appletters, Boggle Games

Using specific letters to build words and interact with peers

#Grammar911 on Twitter (link)

Correct grammar and sentences from other classes on the #Grammar911 hashtag
Presentation from MERIT14 about using Twitter in the classroom

Whiteboard with Coloured Markers

Ex. Primary: Consonants are blue and vowels are red
Ex. Intermediate: Base word is blue and prefixes or suffixes are red

App suggestions (iPad - some are paid):

iWrite Words (early primary)
Writing Wizard (primary)
Word Bingo (primary)
Bluster (primary and intermediate)
Grammaropolis Word Sort (intermediate)
Mad Libs (intermediate)

Work on Writing Group Activity

Check out customized student lists with Spelling City (You can also borrow an iPad of mine to use the iOS app if you wish)

Log-in: WLETestStudent
Password: 123

Check out #grammar911 on Twitter and fix a sentence by tweeting the corrected version back with the hashtag
Check out and play with some of the apps on my iPads or download them for yourself!
When you are done, please explore and update the red text in your Daily 5 planning document for the Word Work section

How to Set Up the Program

MODEL… Model, model, and then model some more
Start small - start with Read To Self and work your way up from there
Showcase inappropriate behaviors and contrast them with appropriate ones
Repeat how to work through workflows more than once, particularly for younger grades
LEAVE THEM ALONE - try not to interrupt their flow by pulling your small groups for instruction at the beginning of each Daily 5 session

Student Accountability

Here is the copy of what I used for a Daily 5 checklist. You are welcome to make a copy of it and make it your own.

But it isn’t pretty like these:

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