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Ideas Incorporating Daily 5/CAFE!

     Credit: www.easygrammer.com Creative Lesson Plan Examples:  Lesson Plan Idea #1:  Credit: www.mrswaitaweebley.com     Let's imagine teaching Daily 5 to third graders. First, I would implement this worksheet up above and hand it out to each student in the classroom. For each day of the week, the students would fill out each row with the book they decided to read that day, giving the students the option of what they want to read. At first, I would have the students choose one of the five daily tasks for one day of the week and then write the book that they read on the sheet of paper so that they can get signed off. This worksheet is a great way to monitor student progress in their literacy and reading as well as makes sure that the students are on task. Towards the end of the week, the students would list the different types of strategies that they are working on and what they learned new that they did not know before. Lesson Plan Idea #2: ...
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How Can Elementary Students Use Daily 5/CAFE to Support Their Writing Goals + Frequently Asked Questions

  Credit:  "Kids' Work Chicago Daycare"  by kidsworkchicago  is licensed with CC BY 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/           This is the burning question that every teacher must have when trying to implement this teaching method into the classroom. 🔥 How Can Elementary Students Use Daily 5/CAFE to Support Their Own Writing Goals?     By enforcing the use of Daily 5/CAFE in the classroom, the students will be given the opportunity to become independent learners. This way of learning encourages students to engage more with what they are either reading or writing and creates a space of creativity for students.      By applying the Daily 5 tasks which include:  Read to self Work on writing Partner reading Word work Listening to reading Students are given the chance to focus on their strengths and improve their weaknesses. This method shows the students wh...
        To start off, there is not just a "one size fits all" learning approach for teachers. There are many other approaches that teachers can acknowledge to better have their students succeed in the classroom. Daily 5/CAFE gives teachers a whole new perspective on how to teach writing, reading, and literacy in the classroom giving students a way to be independent and helps out the flexibility of you as the teacher. This teaching method also measures the growth of students and what they are understanding and comprehending. The Daily 5 includes:  Read to Self Read to Someone  Listen to Reading Word Work Work on Writing   Credit to Katie Goodman on Pinterest       Another method that teachers can use is the CAFE menu. This type of method is a helpful strategy students when assessing their knowledge on literacy. As shown in the picture up above The CAFE menu looks just like a menu that one wo...