So it's official! We have set Daily 5 up as a Teaching and Learning Project at MACC. We believe so greatly as a whole staff that the success of Daily 5 to date is worth tracking and worth reporting on.
The aims for our project are as follows:
1. To improve students motivation and stamina in Reading.
2. To ensure all students meet the appropriate stage level of achievement in NSW BOS Reading outcomes.
3. To develop new teaching pedagogy based on current professional research in the area of Reading.
We are well underway with this project and have formalised our methods of collecting data. As a staff we decided to take a four pronged approach to collecting this data. We wanted it to be formative data that was useful along the way and not collected just for the sake of proving the point that we are all convinced of...that DAILY 5 WORKS, but to give us some quality information about our students and their progress as well as some diagnostic information about their individual needs to help us in planning for each student.
Here are our four prongs:
1. Standardised Reading Assessment using The Waddington Standard Reading Test 1.
2. Reading Recovery Levels following regular benchmarking from Running Records.
3. Reading Behaviour Rubrics.
4. Data analysis of individual Pensive's and student reading goals.
Of course we will keep tracking our stamina minutes as we go along and celebrate all the little achievements along the way!
Do you know of any other practices we could use for data collection?
How will you plan/schedule these assessment tasks in your classroom?
Looking forward to your thoughts/comments and reflections!
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Listening to Reading.....ideas required!
Great to start a chat amongst our staff about Listening to Reading today. We are trying to come up with ideas for how to expose all students to Listening to Reading. There are so many great sites out there on the web that are excellent and more importantly free!
I found this symbaloo mix tonight:
When you open up this page there are more than 20 links to stories being read aloud! Click on them and have some fun. Some even have follow up activities and/or printables as well. Georgia has also listed several links on the previous post about web resources.
I think the biggest challenge we face is not finding stories read aloud but, how do we listen to them! Our Stage 2's have access to the IPods which is very helpful. Of course that will take some sharing etiquette as we mostly all do D5 in the morning session. Splitters were one suggestion. In that case do we need some more headphones? Will this work? We also have access to the Listening Posts. Is this a practical solution? How can we use these effectively? I believe that the way we manage Listening to Reading will determine the most effective way to use the resources we have.
How are you doing Listening to Reading in your class?
What are the resources you mostly use?
How do you manage student access to the equipment eg whole class or small group?
Would love to hear some ideas on the topic from everyone!
I found this symbaloo mix tonight:
http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/reading2ndgrade
When you open up this page there are more than 20 links to stories being read aloud! Click on them and have some fun. Some even have follow up activities and/or printables as well. Georgia has also listed several links on the previous post about web resources.
I think the biggest challenge we face is not finding stories read aloud but, how do we listen to them! Our Stage 2's have access to the IPods which is very helpful. Of course that will take some sharing etiquette as we mostly all do D5 in the morning session. Splitters were one suggestion. In that case do we need some more headphones? Will this work? We also have access to the Listening Posts. Is this a practical solution? How can we use these effectively? I believe that the way we manage Listening to Reading will determine the most effective way to use the resources we have.
How are you doing Listening to Reading in your class?
What are the resources you mostly use?
How do you manage student access to the equipment eg whole class or small group?
Would love to hear some ideas on the topic from everyone!
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
SO MANY RESOURCES OUT THERE ON THE WWW!
I found these great pages with links and documents galore to do with Daily 5.
This first link is terrific
http://k-5literacyconnections.weebly.com/daily-5.html
There are some videos to watch as well as some scheduling examples for 60 and 90 minute Daily 5 activities. There are also some good links to word work activities.
The second link has some excellent downloadable resources for D5:
http://www.sanjuan.edu/webpages/gguthrie/balanced_literacy.cfm?subpage=127464
Be sure to scroll to the bottom of the page for some fantastic downloadables.
Finally, this one is mostly for the Kindy teachers:
http://www.sanjuan.edu/webpages/gguthrie/balanced_literacy.cfm?subpage=127464
This is a wonderful resource in google doc format that I read about on twitter. I tweeted the owners and requested access to it and @MMEGrinder26 and @Mr_Fines generously shared their curriculum map for introducing CAFE and D5 in Kindergarten.
These are great people to follow on twitter and moderate the #Kinderchat hashtag. Lots of Kindergarten resources shared on this hashtag.
Deb
This first link is terrific
http://k-5literacyconnections.weebly.com/daily-5.html
There are some videos to watch as well as some scheduling examples for 60 and 90 minute Daily 5 activities. There are also some good links to word work activities.
The second link has some excellent downloadable resources for D5:
http://www.sanjuan.edu/webpages/gguthrie/balanced_literacy.cfm?subpage=127464
Be sure to scroll to the bottom of the page for some fantastic downloadables.
Finally, this one is mostly for the Kindy teachers:
http://www.sanjuan.edu/webpages/gguthrie/balanced_literacy.cfm?subpage=127464
This is a wonderful resource in google doc format that I read about on twitter. I tweeted the owners and requested access to it and @MMEGrinder26 and @Mr_Fines generously shared their curriculum map for introducing CAFE and D5 in Kindergarten.
These are great people to follow on twitter and moderate the #Kinderchat hashtag. Lots of Kindergarten resources shared on this hashtag.
Deb
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
FIVE WEEKS INTO DAILY 5 and CAFE!!!
I'm so excited to see how far we've come in such a short space of time. I believe our research, preparation and trials during the second half of 2011 have meant that we have been able to really fly in 2012.
I'm very encouraged by the changes in students motivation toward reading and in the new language they are using to describe themselves as readers.
I'm so pleased with our amazing JS teachers who have done such a super job in delivering this new approach.
It is also super encouraging that we have 85 Parents wanting to come to a Parent Information session and learn about it as well.
As they say on the morning show adds......I'M EXCITED!!!
I'd love to hear your thoughts as well.
What do you love about Daily 5?
Do you believe it is having a positive effect on Student engagement and achievement?
Is there any part that has challenged you?
Do you see a future for Daily 5/CAFE in the years to come?
Happy posting!
Deb
I'm very encouraged by the changes in students motivation toward reading and in the new language they are using to describe themselves as readers.
I'm so pleased with our amazing JS teachers who have done such a super job in delivering this new approach.
It is also super encouraging that we have 85 Parents wanting to come to a Parent Information session and learn about it as well.
As they say on the morning show adds......I'M EXCITED!!!
I'd love to hear your thoughts as well.
What do you love about Daily 5?
Do you believe it is having a positive effect on Student engagement and achievement?
Is there any part that has challenged you?
Do you see a future for Daily 5/CAFE in the years to come?
Happy posting!
Deb
Monday, February 20, 2012
Word Work Excitement
Kelly put together a great box for Word Work last week with a variety of activities for children to use. The set up is excellent and there are a great range of activities that involve sensory experiences as well. Take a look below.
Can't wait to here how the children use this box Kelly.
Would love to hear how you are all selecting the words for children to work on. I've heard lots of stories of how people are doing it. Please add them to the blog so we can all learn from each other!
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Word Work and Work on Writing
In helping students tune ears-and mouths and eyes, even their fingertips, their nerve endings-to the glorious range of ways they can string words together, we need to encourage them to fool around, to experiment, to break rules even before they know all the rules. Whoever knows all the rules, anyway?
Judith Rowe Michaels
These seem to be the rounds that most of us are talking about in terms of appropriate activities. Feel free to add ideas and suggestions here.
How have you introduced this to your class?
What activities are working best?
Judith Rowe Michaels
These seem to be the rounds that most of us are talking about in terms of appropriate activities. Feel free to add ideas and suggestions here.
How have you introduced this to your class?
What activities are working best?
Listening to Reading
Children come with varying backgrounds and experiences of being read to. Listening to reading in class helps bolster these home experiences and improve students reading abilities.
Lisa found us the following website for listening to reading:
http://teacher.scholastic.com/commclub/
How have you introduced this?
What resources are you using?
Lisa found us the following website for listening to reading:
http://teacher.scholastic.com/commclub/
This is also a good website with lots of classics:
How have you introduced this?
What resources are you using?
Read to Someone
Reading with someone helps students read independently and grow as readers; it helps them become more self-sufficient and less reliant on teachers for assistance. (pg 60 Daily 5)
How have you introduced Read to someone?
What responsibilities have the children decided on?
Do you have any resource ideas?
How have you introduced Read to someone?
What responsibilities have the children decided on?
Do you have any resource ideas?
Read to Self
So great see children engrossed in a good book. Whilst they are building their stamina they are also practicing and integrating all those brilliant reading skills they are learning.
Do you have any ideas for Read to Self?
How many minutes are your class up to?
Do you have any ideas for Read to Self?
How many minutes are your class up to?
Off and Running!
Well we are off to a brilliant start with Daily 5 and for some of us CAFE. It has been just amazing to see the children so engrossed in what they are doing and talking strategies for reading and really understanding their responsibilities with the activities. Loved hearing all the talk of how many stamina minutes your students are all up to.
I'm going to put a post up for each of the rounds for us to add resources to and also for us to discuss and share our ideas as we move through introducing each round. Please contribute to these posts.
A must to sign up to is the Daily 5 wiki! Absolutely awesome resources developed by teachers working with Daily 5 and CAFE as well as videos of teachers teaching and children engaging. Best of all, it's all FREE! Find it at:
www.daily5cafechat.wikispaces.com
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