Daily 5

If you’ve read my blog before, you probably know that I use a Daily 5 structure to organize our reading time. I love the freedom, choice, and time spent reading/writing it offers my students. One of the most common questions/comments is “My students can’t handle choice. I’m doing Daily 5 just without the choice. My...

Hello friends! Today I’m joining a fabulous group of friends for an online book study of The Daily 5. Over the course of the next 8ish weeks, we’ll be taking a close look at the newest edition of the book and seeing what it looks like in real classrooms. I hope you’ll be joining us....

Do you reinvent the wheel every single week when it comes to centers, word work, stations.....whatever you happen to call them? Yeah, me too! I know better, I swear I do but it just never fails. I am here today to tell you that there IS A BETTER WAY! Let me begin by saying I am a big fan of Daily 5. I run my room about as closely to the Daily 5 model as possible but this is one area I just never could give in on. The sisters suggest having out materials for students to build words, write…

Hey Friends, Happy Tuesday! 😀 I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. I LOVE the Daily 5. It is such a wonderful way to engage students in reading and writing independently while you get to work with small groups. In my classroom this year, I had used the Daily 5 instead of center time since I couldn’t use…

Take a look at how I set up my class and organize my stations for a successful start to Daily 5 in kindergarten.

Each Monday we collaborate with our building's new and Dual Language staff members for a professional development session based on what they highlight as their needs and/or desires for learning! This week we focused on Daily 5 ideas as all of our staff are currently working hard to get their stations and guided reading up and running! The teachers who attending the session came up with a variety of wonderful ideas and activities that could potentially be used throughout the year in these…

Introducing students to challenging words through Word of the Week can help increase their confidence in reading, writing, & speaking.

Hello! I’m Heather. I share ideas from my classroom at Learning with Mrs. Langley and create resources to help save time in the classroom.

Word work activities for ANY words! Word work is an essential part of language learning in the primary grades. Make word work FUN while LEARNING takes place! There are seventeen different word work activities included in this pack. They can be used for absolutely ANY word learning! Perfect for literacy centers or sub plans. A must have for Kindergarten- Third Grade! #wordwork #wordworkactivities #spelling #1stgrade #2ndgrade #kindergarten

In my school, we use daily 5 for reading instruction. I set up daily 5 a little bit different. I teach third grade and there is just so much to fit in! When I was trying to fit in all daily 5 rotations a day I was not getting to the important stuff and I was not having enough time with my students. So, I do one rotation a day for 20-30 minutes. The students do each rotations for daily 5 once a week and they meet with me once a week.