Differientiating the Daily Five

Hello Everyone,

Here are a few ideas to modify your Daily Five activities for your A.I.S. Pre-A reading students.

 

Write Letters in their name on a laminated sentence strip.

· Use for Rainbow Writing.

· Use to match magnetic letters to the letters in their name.

· Use to have students trace the letters with their finger.

Write the letters of their name on a sentence strip with yellow marker.

· Have students trace over the letters with a pencil or crayon.

· Cut the letters apart and have students use the laminated name sentence strip to match the letters.

· Use cut up letters in for their name to show you the first letter of their name and the last letter of the name.

· Mix up the cut up letters in their name and have the student put their name back in order.

Give each student a Personal Letter Bag.

· Use your magnetic letters, or other laminated letters to have students ID the letter. If they get the letter right, it goes into their bag. The next day, go over the letters in the bag. If they get the letter right it stays in the bag, if they get it wrong, the letter comes out of the bag. Continue process until students are confident with the ID of all of the letters both upper case and lower case.

· Use letters in their bag to name a word with a letter they know.

· Use the letters in their bag to name letters from left to right.

The A.I.S. students in our class go through these "ABC Drills" every day. As they get more confident in their abilities, the time to do these drills goes faster, and you can add more activities as they progress. These are great foundation drills to increase and master basic concepts of reading.

 

Many of these ideas come from The Next Step in Guided Reading by Jan Richardson.

 

Happy Daily Five!

Melanie Weinlein