So my goal this year was to use Daily 5. It has not happened the way I thought it would. After surviving through the first several weeks of school. I think I finally have things the way I like it, which means I can start adding in Daily 5 and Cafe.
I am using Daily 4 during my Intervention time. This is where I see my group of guided reading students for 45 minutes in the afternoon to work on skills. We use the daily 4 because on the fifth day we do comprehension and Fluency Checks.
When they arrive I do a CAFE mini lesson. On work on writing days, we do a writing extension of this lesson. This is taking 15-20 minutes right now, I've only been doing this for a week. I am hoping with time we can get it down to a 10 minute lesson. So for the other 20 minutes that we have left, (more like 10 or 15) I have been conferring with students. In the past two weeks I have still not been able to meet with all 12 students, but I have one on the calendar and he keeps asking about when he is meeting with me :) SUCCESS!
As for Daily 5 during my core instruction time with my whole class. I am working on this. We have a lot to do during core. I am trying to at least do a small mini lesson, then have more work time, so eventually I can get to conferring and small groups.
So today we did a writing lesson from voices. Then they had to finish independently after we brainstormed and did the lesson together. I was able to complete one small group lesson on introductions. I kinda did a talk a loud for writing I think. We used introductions from text and modeled our introductions after the authors. The kids thought it was great to write like authors.
It has been a great experience trying to implement this with my kiddos. By the end of the year, we may be pros at this.
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