I have used Daily 5 for four years now and use it as a basis for my programme. The aspects that are involved are read to self, read to someone, word work, work on writing and listen to reading. I find that all five of these are fundamental parts to practice and learn in reading time, with students building key skills while completing these. I also have a few other rotations included of other things like teacher time, work on ipad, word wall, free play, playdough, lego and crafts. These all make up important aspects of my programme. I first began with Daily 5 in 2017 - I had done the research, read the book, scoped for resources before implementing it 'the right way'. It was such a success and since then I have implemented a lot of student agency based choices which came from the daily 5 implementation.  My reading tumble is more of a choice board now where students can choose what they would like to do in reading time as long as they cross it off on their card. This is to create ownership over their choices and be held accountable for the choices they make in class too. They love being able to choose what they want to do and I love seeing them do it! 
I hope this has helped unpack a little on how reading is run in my classroom. Obviously things might be different this year with my newbies but I know I will be doing Daily 5 again in a basic tumble to begin the year. If you have any questions about how I run reading please get in contact info@mrspriestleyict.com or send me a message over facebook or instagram.
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It's almost Christmas time! So I have put together a post with my best Christmas ideas and resources for your students and classroom! Click on the links for information or free downloads!
This prompt comes with kit instructions and writing prompts to keep students busy! Christmas Tree Kit
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Christmas Tree kit This kit is perfect for exploring Christmas trees and how to make them. This pack includes: -title kit page -Christmas acrostic poem template -Christmas tree writing template -Christmas tree 'how to make' writing template Print these out and staple them into a booklet with the title page. This allows for students to work on each page as they want to or once focusing in class. I have used this to send home in the past for students to use as a prompt at home (end of the year present)
Check out my other Christmas themed freebies on my website now! Christmas Playdough Mats
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Christmas Playdough Mats These Christmas playdough mats are a great way for students to show their creativity with a Christmas themed prompt. Use these for free play or as an activity in your class time. This includes:
This has 11 pages in the resource. Use with plastic sleeves or laminate to ensure durability. Christmas Fine Motor Prompts
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Christmas Fine Motor Prompts These Christmas fine motor prompts are a great idea for provocations around Christmas time. These are themed around three ideas:
This resource has 40 pages in it for students to use in two different layouts. The first is with white dots for students to place the correct objects on each dot. This could be with their fingers, tweezers, scoopers or anything else students might have in the classroom. This practices fine motor skills, pincer grip and more. The second is for students to count out the right number of objects onto the mats. Print off to ensure durability or use plastic sleeves. Christmas themed missing numbers
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Christmas themed missing numbers This resources is great for reinforcing number knowledge and number sequence with numbers to 100. Students can choose the activity they are working on or teachers can print it out, students look for the number missing with the cartoon image on it and write the number in the box! So simple yet fun to complete! There are different sheets with different numbers missing from 20 to 100. Just choose the one you are looking for!
1. Prior to reading - the first thing is making sure you have selected the appropriate text based on the sound or grapheme you are focusing on. 2. Segmenting and blending - this is focusing on the words in the text. Practicing segmenting them out and blending them together. This is practiced continuously to build confidence and skill with the sound. 3. Tricky words - reading the tricky words as 'fast words'. Lots of reading over them and practicing these so when they are recognised in the text students can say them quickly. 4. After reading - just like every other guided reading session; talk about the text and have students respond to what was covered.
 I love word work and small snippet activities that get students to practice key skills from your classroom. Being online at the moment, it can be hard finding fun activities that students can practice during your online sessions. These word work hot spots are a great quick way to practice key skills! There are eight in this slide deck that can be used online in whole group discussions, or assigned to Seesaw or Google classroom to complete.  This weeks sunday spotlight I am sharing this great reading exit slip tracker that you can use with your older kids. Perfect for keeping track of how long they have read for, a part they enjoyed and creating ownership of their learning. This exit slip could be used alongside read to self or read to someone from Daily 5.
As I have little learners coming to visit every fortnight on a Tuesday, I'm going to use that literacy block to be themed around a picture book. The first one is around the book "Piranhas don't eat bananas". I will have a range of themed activities out along with a task card, for students to use to play, build and then shared their learning. An example is one in the picture below - a piranha peg!
I can't wait to get this underway this week and will use it to start and see the success of this programme. There are so many opportunities and benefits for structured play in the classroom and linking it to picture books is a fantastic start! I can't wait!
 I have had lots of interest in my Daily 5 products over the last few days so thought I would give a quick blog post on my experience with Daily 5. It has been a huge part of my literacy programme for the last two years. This year will be my third year using it, this time with Year 3's. Previously I have done in with Year 1s and then Year 1/2 composite. I first came across Daily 5 online and purchased this book 'The Daily 5'. It unpacks it very clearly and highlights how you should implement it in your classroom. If you're looking to get it going in your classroom then start with this.
Room 11 loves using QR codes. QR codes are easy to use and make. They are linked to different websites or youtube clips, that children can scan with a QR code reader and be taken to that website. QR codes are used with listening to reading in Room 11! They love hearing online stories so helped me to create some for our top 10 books we love to hear. These are printed out for students to use in the class and access easily. Our top 10 books include: -The Hungry Caterpillar -The Wonkey Donkey -The Tiny Seed -The Rainbow Fish -We're going on a bear hunt -The Gruffalo -Room on the broom -Harry the dirty dog -Hey, thats my monster! -Green eggs and ham If you would like to download these and use them in your classroom please click here, for access to the pdf >> Room 11 Top 10 books! So I came across this cool post on the NZ Teachers Facebook page, and immediately had to make these things called 'Book boats'. I went out and brought the containers, had huge difficulty cutting the lid in half with a saw and decorated them on my teacher only days. School has only been back a few days. We brought them out on Monday for 'read to self' time in reading and the children were in love. They all wanted a turn and couldn't wait to read in it. As we only made 5, we had to leave them only for 'read to self' time when they could then choose to read in them on the deck. You can see in the picture, the children are so engaged with their reading. So cute and comfortable! The best thing I've made for my classroom this year!  |
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