Daily Five

I've been doing the Daily 5 for two years now and just love it.  I will NEVER go back to centers and all that work!

I love the way the kids are engaged and get to choose what they want to do.  CAFE is the best part of D5.  We get to track our learning and then make goals for ourselves.  It is genius!

I know once we change to common core I will need to revamp CAFE-has anyone aligned this yet?


I have a few Daily 5 resources on my TPT site.  

This is how my students do Work on Words.  It is available HERE

These are a few of the papers they use with the Tic Tac Toe sheets:

They are available HERE.

Or you could just use these:


I've received requests to combine my tic-tac-toe boards and papers. I said I wasn't going to do it, but I decided to. {{Lesson learned-if you bug me, I will come around, lol}}

Now, they are even better!

I've added more choices to meet all of the diverse learners in your classroom.

The words used are different, too. I decided to use high frequency words as well as the most common words in leveled readers, between levels 3-20.

This way students are exposed to words they both read and write.

Here is a sampling of what you will get.

Here is the listing.

This product provides ten weeks of work work that is differentiated and perfect for all types of learners. All the activities are included so all you need to do is print and go!
Included in this 51 page unit are ten tic-tac-toe boards for spelling, homework, or word work during literacy centers or Daily Five as well as the worksheets for all of the activities included on the boards. Activities include rainbow words, length words, perfect penmanship, ant and elephant words, across and down, shape spelling, flower words, fancy words, roll a word, connect the dots, pyramid words, scrambled words, color words, building words, sight word practice, trace over and read, write, cover and check. Other activities are sand spelling, magna doodles, white board spelling, bean spelling, stamps, playdough spelling, wikki stix spelling, bottle cap spelling and dot paint spelling.
Get it here on TPT and on TN for $8.99.

I've completed two more word work units. I have to admit, I am SO proud of these units. They truly afford rigorous, engaging and diverse learning for all students.

Here is the 2nd part of my Wild About Word Work unit.

This product provides fifteen weeks of work work that is differentiated and perfect for all types of learners. All the activities are included so all you need to do is print and go!
Included in this 60 page unit are fifteen tic-tac-toe boards for spelling, homework, or word work during literacy centers or Daily Five as well as the worksheets for all of the activities included on the boards. Activities include rainbow words, length words, perfect penmanship, ant and elephant words, across and down, shape spelling, flower words, fancy words, roll a word, connect the dots, pyramid words, scrambled words, super sentences, trace around,color words, trace, write and decorate, building words, sight word practice, word sort, trace over and read, write, cover and check. Other activities are sand spelling, magna doodles, white board spelling, bean spelling, stamps, playdough spelling, wikki stix spelling, bottle cap spelling and dot paint spelling. $8.99 on TPT.

Then, I decided that maybe people want to use their own words for this product. So I created a Wild About Word Work-Add Your Own Words Version.

This product provides ten weeks of work work that is differentiated and perfect for all types of learners. All the activities are included so all you need to do is add your own spelling words, print and go!
Included in this 44 page unit are ten tic-tac-toe boards for spelling, homework, or word work during literacy centers or Daily Five as well as the worksheets for all of the activities included on the boards. Activities include rainbow words, length words, perfect penmanship, ant and elephant words, across and down, shape spelling, flower words, fancy words, roll a word, connect the dots, pyramid words, scrambled words, color words, building words, sight word practice, trace over and read, write, cover and check. Other activities are sand spelling, magna doodles, white board spelling, bean spelling, stamps, playdough spelling, wikki stix spelling, bottle cap spelling and dot paint spelling.

It is $8.99 on TPT.

These are a few of the organizational tools I use:

Finally, these are the comprehension resources to go with Listen to Reading and Read to Self.  I love these the most because they are so versatile.  I make each sheet into a poster. Then,  model how to use the sheet, then kids do it with a partner and lastly, independently.  Here are a few snapshots of a couple of the resources:

You can get these HERE.

Do you use Daily Five in your classroom? I do!
I have been using this model for three and a half years and would NEVER go back to centers.
My students make amazing progress and Daily Five is so much less work than centers. I had 13 kiddos below grade level at the beginning of this year and now only four are below ... and it is not even the end of the year. Three of these students have (or are about to) IEPs. They all made a years growth but are still behind.
While I know I am an experienced, well educated teacher, I acknowledge the fact that Daily Five has contributed to the success of kids. Why? They actually read and write. They do not spend time doing meaningless activities or worksheets and I focus my lessons very carefully.
Read to Someone was the most difficult for my students {and me}. They needed some accountability like all of the other Daily's. So I knew I had to come up with something.

Here is what I created:

This 20 page unit is all you need for Buddy Reading/Read to Someone
Pg. 2 - Table of Contents
Pg. 3 - Read to Someone I-chart – directions on how to do Read to Someone

Pg. 4- EEKK poster-to remind kids how to sit during Read to Someone

Pg. 5 – How to Choose a Partner when doing Read to Someone

Pg. 6 - Ways to Read to Someone-describes the 3 different ways to buddy read

Pg. 7 – Before Reading Die – laminate, cut out and glue with a hot glue gun. Make several for kids to use before they actually start reading

Pg. 8 – After Reading Spinner- oral comprehension prompts

Pg. 9 – Directions on how to make the spinner

Pg. 10- After Reading Spinner- to hold students accountable they can do any of these activities that focus on the comprehension strategies

Pg. 11 – Our Favorite Part Worksheet

Pg. 12 – Super Schema Worksheet

Pg. 13 – Prediction Worksheet

Pg. 14 – Magical Mental Images Worksheet

Pg. 15 – Author’s Purpose Worksheet

Pg. 16 – Reading Detectives Worksheet {inference}

Pg. 17 – Cool Connections Worksheet

Pg. 18 – Marvelous Main Idea Worksheet

Pg. 19 - Read to Someone Stamina Graph

Pg. 20 Credits

Here on TPT.