Friday, October 4, 2013
Multi-age grouping during Daily 5
Kerrianne Pace and I are talking about collaborating to plan Daily 5 activities for our two classes. One idea is to involve my first graders working as mentors to her kindergarteners and possibly some of her higher level readers coming to my classroom to participate in our first grade Daily 5 activities. I have found this year that the key to Daily 5 is to teach each component slowly and thoroughly. We took 1 week to build stamina in each area. My students are starting to branch out now to go through 4 daily 5 activities daily. I have not taught Read to Someone yet. They are doing very well with following the guidelines that we have established as a class. I am pleased with how it is going so far. I have pocket charts with their pictures and I am assigning the order in which they progress through their daily 5 activities at this time (to separate kids that I know may be distracted by eachother and also to group together similar reading levels at times). As the year progresses, I really would like to allow the children more freedom in choosing their own order of how they would like to proceed through our Daily 5 time. There are a lot of great resources and ideas for word work on Teachers pay Teachers that are Freebies.
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Sounds great Laura!
ReplyDeleteAs far as your kids working with kindergarten students...would you have any high kids that could do letter tracing with some students? I have materials that they could use. I am actually looking for an older student to help out with that!
Yes, Sharon, I definately have kids that would LOVE to do some letter tracing with some students!
DeleteI am also working on stamina. It sounds like we are setting up classroom routines in a similar fashion. It's really important to go slow when you introduce each daily five station. I think it will be really helpful to have first graders as role models. I am excited to plan something together.... once we really get moving with our groups.
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DeleteI also think its important to go slow when introducing the different components of daily 5. we are still building stamina in read to self and work on writing. I think teaching your first graders read to someone first would be helpful if you wanted them to be role models for the kindergarteners. They could really reinforce the way read to someone should look and sound like with the K's. good luck!
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I think we are all on the same page with going slow to establish routines. It will make reading groups more manageable for the rest if the year after the routines are set!
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