The Daily 5 ─ Fostering Literacy in the Elementary Grades

Boushey and Moser, teachers and consultants who specialize in literacy, assessment, and creating classroom learning spaces, describe the use of the Daily 5 as a learning structure for literacy that focuses on what the students and teacher are to do within five components: reading to oneself, reading to someone, working on writing, listening to reading, and spelling/word study. They explain the core beliefs underlying this structure, the 10 steps to teaching and learning independence, specific lessons, and working with parent volunteers, guest teachers, new students, and challenging students. This edition has new chapters on differentiating instruction by age and stamina and the math Daily 3 structure, a new section on what is needed to begin the Daily 5, new brain research, detailed lunch plans for the first three weeks, more flexibility for when and how to introduce each Daily 5 choice, and ideas on integrating the Daily 5 with the CAFE (comprehension, accuracy, fluency, and expanding vocabulary) assessment system. Annotation c2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)