1. The Daily 5 & The Literacy Cafe
Maui Preparatory Academy’s
Lower School
September 13, 2012

2. What is the Daily 5?
A student-driven management structure designed to fully engage students in activities that support literacy~ reading and writing
Creates routines and procedures that foster independent literacy routines that become habit

3. Read to Self
The best way to become a better reader is to practice each day with “Good Fit” books that you have selected yourself. It’s Fun!

4. Work on Writing
Just like reading the best way to become a better writer is to write each day. It’s Fun!

5. Read to Someone
Partner reading provides opportunities to practice strategies, improve fluency, check for understanding, and hear your own voice while sharing in the learning community.

6. Word Work
Expanded vocabulary leads to greater fluency in reading, therefore increasing comprehension. Becoming more proficient as a speller leads to writing fluency and the ability to get your ideas down on paper.

7. Listen to Reading
Just hearing fluent and expressive reading of good literature expands your vocabulary; helps build your stamina and will make you a better reader.

8. Foundations Important to The Daily 5
Trusting students
Providing choice
Nurturing community
Creating a sense of urgency
Building stamina
Adults stay out of students’ way once routines are established

9. Benefits of The Daily 5
Children become better readers and develop a love for reading when they have time to actually read and write.
Providing choice is highly motivational and puts kids in charge of their learning.
Students have more individualized time with the teacher.
Students develop their own goals to work on independently.
Provides structure, short intervals of repeated practice, and time to explore – exactly what students this age need!

10. What is the Literacy Cafe?
The literacy tasks alone are not enough…
CAFE is a guide and system to focus our instruction,
help students set reading and behavior goals,
monitor their progress—
CAFÉ
Comprehension
Accuracy
Fluency
Expand Vocabulary

11. The CAFE Menu 4 components Strategies are added as introduced
Students self-select goal to work on

12. What It Looks Like For Teachers…. For Students…
Deliver 3 – 5 whole group lessons each day
Teach 3 – 4 small groups of children each day
Confer with 9 – 12 individual students each day
Hold all students accountable for eyes-on-text
For Students…
Engaged in the act of reading and writing for extended amounts of time
Receive focused instruction on building and maintaining independence
Receive tailored instruction through whole group, small group, and/or individual conferring, by their skilled classroom teacher, each day

13. The Daily 5 in Action

14. The Daily 5 in Action

15. How does it fit into a 21st century model?
Student choice
Independence
Time management
Collaboration
Goal setting and follow-up
Learning to read a variety of media for different purposes
Learning/having foundation skills to explore own research

16. FAQ - If the students read so much during the day, do you assign reading as homework, too?
Yes! If we want children to have literate lives, they need to experience, practice and fall in love with reading outside of the school walls as well. We don't want them to view reading as an isolated activity that is just done within the confines of school.
We do stress that their outside of school reading should be for pure pleasure!

19. Ways You Can Support Us
10 extra minutes of reading at home makes a difference!
Share your love of reading with your children
Donate gently used books for classroom libraries
Donate beanbags, lamps, pillows for cozy reading nooks

20. Mahalo!!!