What's Happening in 2A?: Daily 5

Friday, October 2, 2009

Daily 5

Now that we have 31 days of school under our belts I can honestly say that we have really gotten into a routine. For me, the best part of the day is the morning!! I just love our morning meetings and Daily 5 and after some feedback from my students I think they feel the same way. We made a wordle today all about the Daily 5. Evidently they think it's pretty COOL and AWESOME!! We can consistently Read to Self and Read to Someone for 20 minutes. They love to do their Word Work and have been doing really well on their Buddy Tests each Friday. I think it's because they want a treat if they get them all correct:) I have also added Listen to Reading. Students are able to choose 3 books and listen to them. Next week I will add the final component: Work on Writing. I'm hoping this will go just as smoothly as the others.

Between each Daily 5 session I've starting doing Daily CAFE lessons. Ask your child what CAFE stands for (hopefully you will find out)!! It stands for Comprehension, Accuracy, Fluency, and Expanded Vocabulary. These short lessons introduce or review strategies that will help your child become an even better reader. As the year progresses, I hope to have each student set reading goals for themselves. They will need to decide which of the CAFE components they need to work on. I will meet with them individually and help them with this goal.

Since we've gotten into a good morning routine, I've finally begun pulling Guided Reading groups. Just as before, students are grouped by their reading levels. We read a guided reading book together and discuss various skills that are found in the book.

I have already seen excellent things happening during our mornings. I can honestly say, 2A students LOVE reading during this time and they are excited. It's unbelievable!!! Please continue to encourage your child to read and thank you for reading with them at home:)

1 comment:

Shirley SovereignOctober 5, 2009 at 10:50 AM
Hi 2A-It sounds like you are doing a great job with the Morning Meeting, Daily 5 and CAFE! And, now you are ready to do Guided Reading groups. I am looking forward to seeing what awesome readers you become this year. Keep up the good work!
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Comprehension Skills and Strategies

Distinguish Fact and Opinion: Your child learned that facts are statements that can be proved. Opinions are what someone believes. The words I believe, I think, and in my view are clues that someone is expressing an opinion. Most students are able to state a fact; however, opinions are more challenging. Please practice this at home.

Sequence Events: Sequence is the order in which event take place. Clue words such as first, next, then, and last help readers know when events occur. When your child is summarizing have them sequence the events using the clue words.

Make Inferences: This is a strategy that readers use to understand what they are reading. When making an inference, readers need to fill in information that the author did not include. Readers must combine what they know with details from the text.
Pictures and words (text clues) + background knowledge (what we know) = an inference

Summarize: A summary is a paragraph or a statement in your own words that gives the most important ideas from the text that was read. Step 1: find the main ideas from the selection. Step 2: shorten and combine those ideas.

Categorize and Classify: We can categorize and classify objects, evens, ideas, and characters by how they are alike and how they fit into groups. When students are reading they can find types of things that are similar and group them into the same category.

Monitor Comprehension: Students must ALWAYS monitor their comprehension while they are reading. If they don't understand what was read they need to reread it. When readers are confused they can use "fix-up" strategies. Here is a list of those strategies:
*reread more slowly
*look up words
*read on
*use picture clues
*summarize
*ask for help