Lori Elliott. 5 Reasons Your Students Should Blog. Teacher Reboot Camp. The decision to go school-wide with Daily 5. 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 would be good for kids. She was so excited to explain to me about The Daily Five provides a structure for the literacy block in which students have choices in what they are doing each day: Read to Self, Read to Someone, Listen to Reading, Work on Writing, and Word Work. Of course she had a lot more to tell me, but the short end of the story is that I said "go for it. " By the end of the year, the rest of the second grade teachers began to implement The Daily Five after seeing the results she was having with her students.
Fast forward to the start of this school year when I was blown away when I reviewed each grade level's reading scores at the beginning of the year. So, what do I do with this information that I've gained? This Story Stinks. Pintrest. Pinterest. Twitter. My Blog. Peter Walsh Blog. Learning with Mrs. S | my teaching blog. Mrs. Yollis' Classroom Blog.