I recently read The Read-Aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease after seeing Matt Renwick tweet about it several different times. I had it on my list of professional books to read, but he actually mentioned it again to me in a parent to parent conversation when I shared my concerns regarding my son’s animosity for reading. … [Read more…]
In my last post I shared with you an update on how we have gone school wide with the Daily 5/Cafe framework for teaching literacy. Just how committed to this are we? Well, the reading basals are now officially boxed up and in storage!! As we made the transition to going school-wide with Daily 5, … [Read more…]
A year and a half ago, I shared about the decision to go school-wide with Daily 5. Since this post I have had a few requests from colleagues in my PLN to post an update on where our school is with Daily 5, so here it goes… This past year, all of our teachers in … [Read more…]
*This is blog post #5 in the 2012 Summer Blog Challenge* Since our building has goneschool-wide with Daily 5/Cafe, my beliefs on teaching literacy have changed dramatically from when I started teaching. I only wish that I could go back in time and teach reading the way my awesome teachers are now. My beliefs have … [Read more…]
This is a cross-post from my staff blog…the first of my blog posts to model reflection for my teachers (and “putting myself out there” for them). Since I am asking all teachers to teach using the Daily 5 Framework for Literacy this year, I felt that it was important for me to dip my hands … [Read more…]
We LOVE to read and because of The Daily 5 and CAFE Menu, that’s why! – Our classroom library has more books to choose from.– I know what I am reading for. I meet MY expectations.– I’m expanding my vocabulary when I read.– I like where I get to read during Read to Self and … [Read more…]
Last year I had a second grade teacher come to me at the start of the year to ask my permission to change her literacy block to implement The Daily Five that she had read about over the summer. I had never heard about The Daily Five, but asked her to tell me how it … [Read more…]