Daily 5 kindergarten

Ideas for each of the daily five rotations

Daily 5 Literacy Stations!!!! Holy email, you all have a ton of questions, and while I’d love to claim that I’m an expert, I can really only tell you how...

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

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developmentally appropriate and engaging kindergarten and preschool lesson plans and ideas

I started Daily 5 in 2011 and I feel like I am now comfortable enough to blog about it and how I started out. When I first started Daily 5 I was completely lost, I had no idea where to start or what to do. But then I discovered Pinterest, Oh My Word! I was in Education Heaven! I found the Daily 5 for Dummies compiled by Jayne Haenel. Click the picture to grab your copy. It has instructions for the first 20 days of the daily 5 with CAFE instructions also. It's an awesome resource and it has…

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...

I started The Daily 5 this year in kindergarten and I am soooo excited about it! This is what we have been doing each day. Thi...

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.

I get a lot of questions about how I implement Daily 5 in Kindergarten and when I start. DAY 1! Since I'm about a week in I thought this was a good time to share a little bit about how our days are going so far..... I can not tell you how wonderful it is to get your kiddos working independently. It is hard to get it going (I won't sugar coat it) but once you get it rolling you can do ANYTHING! This is the key to everything! First off we introduce Read to Self. I start with how to read a book…