Jump-Start Your Learning About the Daily 5

Daily Five

Our first suggestion is to read the second edition of The Daily 5. You will not only learn about the Daily 5, but you will be informed of how we have refined our Daily 5 practice since the first edition came out.  Read it cover to cover, making note of questions you have or ideas that stand out. Then, using key words from the questions you have written down, use the search feature on the site to discover answers.

The following resources will supplement and add to your Daily 5 expertise:

Three Ways to Read a Book

• Three Ways to Read a Book
• Three Ways to Read a Book—Even in Intermediate

Good-Fit Books / I-PICK

• Good-Fit Bookmark
• Picking Good-Fit Books
• Providing Time to Choose Books
• Modeling I-PICK
• Good-Fit Books for Intermediate Students

Book Boxes

• A Book Box Tour
• Managing Book Boxes
• Sixth-Grade Book Boxes
• Emergent Reader Book Boxes

Independence

• Ten Steps to Independence

Check-In and Release

• Smooth Check-In
• Providing Additional Support
• Adding a Goal and Strategy
• Third Graders Check In
• Smooth Release

Read to Self

• Quick Start Guide #1
• Quick Start Guide #2

Read to Someone

• Quick Start Guide #4

Work on Writing

• Quick Start Guide #3

Working with Words

• Quick Start Guide #5

Listen to Reading

• Quick Start Guide #6

Barometer Children

• 5 Levels of Support for Barometer Children
• Troubleshooting
• Releasing Barometer Students
• Behavior Goals
• Acrostic to the Rescue