The Daily Five

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.

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• Yardsticks: Children in the Classroom Ages 4-14
• The CAFE Book: Engaging All Students in Daily Literacy Assessment and Instruction
• The Daily 5: Fostering Literacy in the Elementary Grades
• The Cafe Book: Engaging All Students in Daily Literary Assessment & Instruction (Mixed media product) By (author) Gail Boushey, By (author) Joan Moser
• The First Six Weeks of School
• Scholastic Professional The Next Step Forward in Guided Reading
• First Day Jitters (The Jitters Series)
• Literacy Work Stations: Making Centers Work
• The Reading Strategies Book: Your Everything Guide to Developing Skilled Readers