Daily 5 and CAFE can be incorperated during shared reading lesson, guided reading groups, independant reading and projects. The lessons that woiuld be taught,character, structures, comprehension, etc. should be interwoven during Daily 5 in order for students to see, do, and comprehend how the author has written, how they can use in their writing, how they can interpret in the best manner.
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S. Gray
4/29/2013 07:22:09 am
Daily 5 is easily incorporated at the beginning of the year when you are "Building a Reading Life."
A lot of the lessons in The Cafe would be used.
Just by looking at the overview, the goals seems to be creating successful, independent readers and that is what both books are about.
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kendall bennett
4/29/2013 01:28:38 pm
I agree with Stacy, and looking at pg. 10-11 I see that the layout of expectations and the idea of building reader's awareness of what they read and for how long is very similiar, if not identical, to what we currently use with Daily 5. I really like the idea that is stated on pg. 10 that after several years you will not have to have the students muddle through books that are not on their level and of a genre that they are interested in. Rather, they are familiar with their reading level and interests and they begin filling their book boxes in August without several weeks worth of lessons on how to choose a "good fit book." I think this will help upper grades to be able to get right to the informal assessments and conferences.
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Lindsey Arnall
5/1/2013 02:11:26 am
I also agree with Stacey that Daily 5 fits right in with Unit One: Building a Reading Life. Teachers first need to set the expectations and routines in their classrooms during reading time before moving on to other areas.
Using Cafe strategies fit right in during guided reading where students are challenged to work on a specific goal to become a better reader. This makes learning not so overwhelming for students as they work on one goal at a time.
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Danielle Jones
4/29/2013 07:37:59 am
The structure of daily 5 fits in very well with the ideas expressed in the overview. With Daily 5 we give students the opportunity to read, write, and work on spelling. These are all things that Calkins expressed are key to reading instruction. She also talks about small group instruction like many of us have already incorporated into our Daily 5 structures. In addition, Calkins uses several buzz words that are key to Daily 5 and CAFE such as stamina, fluency, accuracy, and meaning.
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Lauren Baer
4/29/2013 08:30:30 am
I agree with what everyone has mentioned, that Daily 5 and Cafe are the perfect structure to work with Calkins. This structure allows the balanced literacy approach and provides tools for naming reading strategies.
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Betty Teel
5/1/2013 12:28:11 pm
Although it was a little challenging to merge the two programs into one for Willard, the two do work well together. They work well together because their focus is the same; teaching students to build stamina and to pick just right books. I like the fact that all grade levels will be on board and students who have been in the district will have a head start on their reading skills and knowledge. CAFE fits well because it also is a great program with comprehension strategies that can be put into place at the appropriate time according to the sequence and structure that will now be in place.
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Kara Kennedy
5/6/2013 12:58:23 am
I think because the units of study are similar to what we are already doing, that it should be fairly easy to implement this with Daily 5. Unit 1 especially goes along well with setting rigorous routines for the reading block.
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Alyssa Blake
5/18/2013 03:26:52 am
Since Daily Five is a reading structure/approach and Calkins is a curricular plan, they meld well together as a more complete approach to reading instruction. I predict a seamless joining of both with the need for only a tweak here and there. I think the difficulty will be wanting to stay true to the Daily Five structure, when the structure may need to be changed at times to best follow Calkins plan. I wonder how the students (and teachers) will react to a change in the well known structure.