The Daily 5 CAFE
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What is The Daily 5?
The Daily 5 is a way to structure your literacy block in order to foster independence and stamina in young readers and writers. Developed by educators and sisters, Gail Boushey and Joan Moser, the Daily 5 is based on years of experience and solid research into what makes our students successful.
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Components of the Daily Five
- Read to Self
- Read to Someone
- Listen to Reading
- Word Work
- Work on Writing
Read to Self
Children reading to themselves is the first of the Daily 5 choices to be launched and is the foundation for creating independent readers and writers. "Whether starting Daily 5 at the beginning of the year or midyear, we always launch Read to Self first. We begin with Read to Self because it embodies the language, routines, expectations, and behaviors on which all the other components of Daily 5 are based." (pg 66, The Daily 5, 2014)
Read to Someone
Reading with someone helps readers, especially developing readers, increase areas of comprehension, accuracy, fluency and prosidy. It also increases reading involvement, attention and collaboration. What's more, children love partner reading and readily participate with books of their choosing. (thedailycafe.com)
Listen to reading
Listen to Reading provides pronunciation and expression models that can only come from hearing fluent and expressive examples. Because of this, Listen to Reading is especially beneficial to our older struggling readers whose listening comprehension exceeds their reading level. Listen to Reading is a great option for our English language learners. (thedailycafe.com)
work on writing
Writing workshop and Work on Writing within Daily 5 are not the same. During writing workshop we may focus on different writing techniques or teach a specific type of writing students must learn based on our current unit of study. Children often use Work on Writing time within Daily 5 to continue work they are doing during writing workshop, but not always. Students thoroughly enjoy the freedom of choice that is part of Daily 5. It is then that they may do sustained writing of any form they like. (thedailycafe.com)
word work
During the Word Work time, students experiment with spelling patterns, memorize high-frequency words, and develop a genuine curiosity and interest in new and unique words. By playing with words, word patterns, word families, prefixes, suffixes, and so on, students hone their knowledge of words and increase their writing skills.
Ok...so now what?
Launching the Daily five
- the I Chart
- the Barometer Child
- Start with Read to Self
C.A.F.E.
The CAFE System is how The Sisters, and teachers all over the world, deliver instruction within The Daily 5 framework. It is what enables teachers to choose individualized goals, assign strategies, monitor progress, and provide just-in-time instruction to meet the needs of every student. (thedailycafe.com)
The Sisters discuss the CAFE system