Hi,
I'm planning to start The Daily Five next year with my second
graders. I have read the book and have bought The CAFE book as well.
I have a few questions.
1. How long is YOUR Daily Five? I don't know how the sisters fit the
DF along with writing, math, science, social studies and specials all
into the afternoon. I've done the math and it literally does not add
up to the amount of minutes in the day. And that does not even take
into account recess (which all our kids need), transitions, getting
ready for home, birthday parties, assemblies, etc. What works for
you?
2. After you do your mini-lesson ( say a comprehension strategy) and
students make a choice, do you expect the students who are at the DF
component that corresponds to the mini-lesson (in this example RS and
R) to be working on that comprehension strategy? How does that work
for with word work? Maybe there is a closed sort that corresponds
with the word work lesson, but you haven't taught that lesson yet and
students are working at that station. Do they just work on that
closed sort the next day?
3. How long do you keep the word work materials available before
changing them? A week?
4. After reading the chapter on choice, I realized that the teachers
(I must have missed it somewhere earlier in the book) are assigning
which component the students will be working on. How have you done
this?
5. I didn't see any trouble shooting in the Listen to Reading about
the scenario when half of the class wants to RS or LR. How do you
make sure that each child does all of the components? I noticed there
were only 4 listening spots. How do you make sure everyone gets their
turn?
I appreciate all your help. It seems that there are some management
issues that weren't addressed in the book.
Thanks,
Shannon
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