Daily 5
Daily 5 is our literacy structure that teaches independence and gives children the skills needed to create a love of reading and writing. It consists of 5 rotations/stations that are introduced individually and then eventually combined to make a daily routine.
What is my child learning
during Daily 5?
Teacher Time:
During Teacher Time, I am able to meet and work with small groups and confer with children one-on-one. At the Teacher Time rotation, we focus on reading strategies, building fluency, comprehension and many more literacy skills.
Read to Self:
During Read to Self, your child is practicing his/her reading skills. Your child must practice reading
every day in order to become a better reader. Your child practices reading with books of his/her choice on
his/her independent reading level.
Read to Someone:
During Read to Someone, your child is practicing his/her reading skills with a classmate. Read to Someone is
important because it helps the students work together within our learning community, while building
reading fluency, expression, and comprehension skills.
What is my child learning
during literacy centers?
Work on Writing
During Work on Writing, your child is practicing his/her writing skills. Your child is focused on his/her
writing goal and is engaged as he/she moves through the stages of the writing process. Your child
completes creative writing activities in which he/she works on brainstorming writing topics, sentence
structure, grammar, spelling, and other writing mechanics.
Word Work:
When your child is practicing our spelling words for the week. We make sure to find fun ways to practice spelling!
This is important so that your child can work to improve his/her spelling, which in turn will aid in his/her
reading and writing development.
How can I help my child
with these skills at home?
Read to Self:
Give your child 15-20 minutes of uninterrupted reading time each day. Your child can check out books
at the public library or read books that he/she brings home from school. Ask your child’s teacher about
his/her current independent reading level. You can use www.scholastic.com/bookwizard to help you find books on
the appropriate level.
Read to Someone:
Have your child spend time reading books to you or other family members. You should also spend time
reading books to your child.
Work on Writing:
Help your child with writing at home by helping him/her create a list of favorite topics to write about.
You can buy your child a notebook to keep at home or have your child help you create the grocery list.
When traveling, encourage your child to write about his/her favorite parts of the trip.
Word Work:
Have your child spend time creating spelling words, sight words, or word families (cat, hat, bat). Your
child can use magnetic letters, word tiles, scrabble tiles, sidewalk chalk, crayons, dry erase markers, sand,
Magna-Doodles, water, Wiki sticks, cereal, beans, and much more to create words!
Daily 5 is our literacy structure that teaches independence and gives children the skills needed to create a love of reading and writing. It consists of 5 rotations/stations that are introduced individually and then eventually combined to make a daily routine.
What is my child learning
during Daily 5?
Teacher Time:
During Teacher Time, I am able to meet and work with small groups and confer with children one-on-one. At the Teacher Time rotation, we focus on reading strategies, building fluency, comprehension and many more literacy skills.
Read to Self:
During Read to Self, your child is practicing his/her reading skills. Your child must practice reading
every day in order to become a better reader. Your child practices reading with books of his/her choice on
his/her independent reading level.
Read to Someone:
During Read to Someone, your child is practicing his/her reading skills with a classmate. Read to Someone is
important because it helps the students work together within our learning community, while building
reading fluency, expression, and comprehension skills.
What is my child learning
during literacy centers?
Work on Writing
During Work on Writing, your child is practicing his/her writing skills. Your child is focused on his/her
writing goal and is engaged as he/she moves through the stages of the writing process. Your child
completes creative writing activities in which he/she works on brainstorming writing topics, sentence
structure, grammar, spelling, and other writing mechanics.
Word Work:
When your child is practicing our spelling words for the week. We make sure to find fun ways to practice spelling!
This is important so that your child can work to improve his/her spelling, which in turn will aid in his/her
reading and writing development.
How can I help my child
with these skills at home?
Read to Self:
Give your child 15-20 minutes of uninterrupted reading time each day. Your child can check out books
at the public library or read books that he/she brings home from school. Ask your child’s teacher about
his/her current independent reading level. You can use www.scholastic.com/bookwizard to help you find books on
the appropriate level.
Read to Someone:
Have your child spend time reading books to you or other family members. You should also spend time
reading books to your child.
Work on Writing:
Help your child with writing at home by helping him/her create a list of favorite topics to write about.
You can buy your child a notebook to keep at home or have your child help you create the grocery list.
When traveling, encourage your child to write about his/her favorite parts of the trip.
Word Work:
Have your child spend time creating spelling words, sight words, or word families (cat, hat, bat). Your
child can use magnetic letters, word tiles, scrabble tiles, sidewalk chalk, crayons, dry erase markers, sand,
Magna-Doodles, water, Wiki sticks, cereal, beans, and much more to create words!