-Add "bathroom stamina" to your charts!
-3 Rounds per day (Kindergarten and Intermediate-2 rounds)
-Don't have the children "brainstorm" when creating your I Chart. Just label it. You may have to create the I Chart in two separate sessions based on children's stamina.
-Teach the 10 Steps to Teaching and Learning Independence in chunks. 3-4 different times throughout the day to fill up the chart. It is too much for student's to digest at one time!
-Age of child=number of minutes of direct instruction. (This stops at 10 minutes.)
-Ask your Media Specialist to teach the Good Fit, I PICK book lessons in the library as well.
-Model the strategy "go back and reread books in your box when you are done".
-Read to Someone is last to be taught
-Fluent readers are 5-7 words ahead in their brains of their voice!
-Leveled classroom libraries are discouraged. Leveling systems are for teachers not students.
-Reading level is not the primary determinate for placing students into a group-it's the skill needed!
I could go on and on and on. Everything they said was spot on and they have the research to prove it. In the classrooms I visit throughout my district I see powerful results of Daily 5 implementation as well. It's hard to argue with kids reading and writing everyday!
"The person in the room that does the most work does the most learning."
