Daily 5 takes place during the majority of our reading block! I am by no means an expert, so please check out the revised Daily 5 Book. Disclaimer: I have ordered the revised book, but have not gotten to it yet.  It is on my to-do list for the summer.  Two weeks left, but who's counting!

I have it structured similar to what "The Sisters" suggest.  We do a 15 minute rotation while I pull students to read with me. That is followed by a mini-lesson.  We usually get through 4 rotations in a morning. Our rotations include Read to Self, Read to Partner, Word Work, Writing and Listening/Computers. 

During Read to Self,  the students have individual boxes of leveled books to match their reading level.  We talk about strategies they can use during read to self.   The emphasis is on students reading the ENTIRE time.
Next us is Read to Partner.  I structure this a little differently than the sisters.  I have the students work on reading from their poetry notebooks, our Wonders Reading book, the weekly leveled readers or fluency passages.  Students have the option of reading together or alternating pages. 


Word Work is the perfect place to work on our phonics pattern.  They practice spelling words with spelling tiles, stamping and dry erase boards.  Reading words with the phonics pattern is also practiced through a game.  The connection of reading the sound and writing the sound needs to be made. 

The writing center is a work in progress.  I tend to give an assignment that could include a Thinking Map to plan their writing, a journal topic or a specific writing assignment.  "The Sisters" give more student choice during this time.  I really believe what works for the students and teacher in each classroom is what is important.


Last, but not least is the Listening Center which I alternate with Computers.  At the Listening Centers, students listen to and read Books on CD and yes, even tapes!  (OK, I feel like I am REALLY old!!) On computers, students read books from Raz-Kids, leveled readers on The Wonders Website and take Accelerated Reader quizzes. 

The mini-lessons that are in between each rotation have generally come from our Wonders curriculum.  As I said in this post, this year will be a different ball game.  We will be pulling from supplementing Wonders with additional resources. The mini-lessons can consist of a reading strategy, phonics skills, phonemic awareness, modeling Daily 5 activities, vocabulary and grammar lessons.

If you missed the other posts in this series, you can read about Fitting it All In, Intervention Groups (and a GIVEAWAY) and Reading Workshop by clicking on the links.

If you have not entered the GIVEAWAY, Wednesday is the last day.  Tomorrow we will venture onto Writing Workshop. Hope to see you back:)

Next up on our daily schedule is Reading Workshop.  (You can find our daily schedule HERE.)  Reading workshop will look VERY different this year.  Last year, our county used Common Core with Wonders by McGraw Hill as our primary resource.


This year Florida has opted out of Common Core and has adopted Language Arts Florida Standards (LAFS).   OK, truth be told the Florida Standards are basically Common Core with a few tweaks...  I will post the standard on our focus fall to keep the it front and center. Creativity to the Core has made a set of Florida standards for each grade level (elementary).


Our county has revamped the Scope and Sequence for each grade level.    They have moved to teaching by standards, NOT by the adopted series.

According to our blueprint, as we teach the standards we will be using various stories throughout Wonders on any given week.  This will make it tricky as our firsties won't have the skills to read the stories out of order so many of the stories will be read alouds.  Yes, we have our work cut out for us!

To help my firsties make the transition to  standards based instruction, I am planning on using the following units from Jen Jones for comprehension extensions.

 

First up on the daily schedule is...


Our school uses the FIRST 30 minutes of each day for grade level intervention groups.  When the first grade team piloted this 4 years ago, I have to say we were not so happy to give up this 30 minutes, never mind first thing in the morning when our firsties came in fresh and ready to learn! HOWEVER, as we progressed through the year and compared growth from the prior year, the students who made adequate yearly growth more than DOUBLED! 

You can read more about how we group and structure our intervention groups HERE. A key part is being able to service the children who struggle and who are in RTI without compromising the instruction for the rest of our students.  With the help of our literacy coach and speech therapist, we are able to structure our groups with lower numbers for those who struggle with phonemic awareness and phonics. 



This year, my instruction focused on  phonics for the first half of the year and then a fluency/comprehension at the mid-year switch.  At times, we need to focus on more than one skill because a student may have several gaps.  We even might need to have a blended group if there are several children with the same needs. 

In our county, we use Wonders by McGraw Hill and they offer  online resources for intervention in most areas.  I have also created a few products to help out in these groups. TpT has been a life saver as well. 



Building fluency takes time and lots of practice.  Children need to be immersed in reading books on their level.  During fluency intervention groups, we use a variety if resources.  We use leveled books from prior reading series, printed books from A-Z Reading, the RAZ-Kids website, a fluency binder for partner reading and LEVELED fluency passages. 


 I love the Raz-Kids website as kids are able to listen to stories, read at their level and take comprehension quizzes. They earn points and are engages in a super fun game!

Hi, my name is Tammy and I have been MIA this summer!  If you are new to my blog, then WELCOME!  If you are a tried and true friend, thanks for sticking around:)

I have my head back in the game and started to plan my schedule.  It will be similar to last year, with the exception of an additional 30 minutes of class time added to the students' day.   Our county adjusted high school schedules- which in turn affect the county BUS schedule!
So students start 10 minutes early and stay 20 minutes longer.  Teachers have not been told about a schedule change for us, but we will roll with it! So here is a tentative schedule for my year providing specials and lunch stay at approximately the same times. Wednesdays is a bit different due to early release (dismiss one hour early).

This is an amazing unit that I used to introduce adjectives and then to review and expand  on types of adjectives.  My kids loved the activities and I liked that there were pages I could use to assess the skill.

Its Dollar Days here at The Resourceful Apple.  Everyone loves a good sale and I am all about that!  Each day I will post an unit  that I have put on sale for $1.00 over at my TpT store.  The sale will last for that day only! 


Since I am posting so late today, I  am putting these TWO units on sale through tomorrow for ONE DOLLAR each!  Click on the picture below to take you to that product in my TpT store.

                        

What would you like to see on sale on OVER THE WEEKEND?  Check out other units at my TpT store and leave me the name of your favorite product (no bundles please!). 


You can also check out my other DOLLAR DAYS deals on my FACEBOOK page.  Make sure you follow me so you don't miss out each day!