Daily 5 Chapter 3 Book Study

Establishing a Gathering Place: 

Part of D5 is establishing a gathering place in your classroom. The space above is my classroom library where we gather when I don’t use anything digital. I am not one to have big anchor charts, I use them but they are digital & displayed on my Smartboard. 

When I am using my Smartboard the gathering place is at their seats. I will pull up certain anchor charts through my Smartboard or simply through them on my Elmo or Luna Projector. With the way technology is going I don’t feel the need to waste the paper on an anchor chart BUT there is absolutely NOTHING wrong with doing that…I just don’t have the space. 

This is the only picture I could find of my calendar area. This will be changing this upcoming school year. This will still be a gathering area but will have more D5 reference posters instead of a calendar. My calendar time will be all digital. 

Benefits to having a gathering place is to meet as a community, the children can turn & talk to each other about what we are discussing. It’s always not a bad idea to have them in one spot to monitor behavior as well. I use my gathering place before and after we are in D5. If we broke stamina I usually STOP D5 instantly & then we gather together to discuss what went wrong. I also bring them together to discuss what went right & have them turn and talk to each other about what they learned that day. 

GOOD-FIT BOOKS

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This will be something that you model and practice with your students all year long. Some got it right away & others….well you know. Research shows an independent or good-fit book is one that student’s can read with 99% accuracy. I used to see my struggling readers try to pick a chapter book that I knew they couldn’t read & then in turn their behavior is off task. When you see this then you pull them to the side & go over their bookmark with them until they get it. This leads us right into I-PICK.

I-PICK:

CLICK ON THE PICTURE FOR YOUR FREEBIE I-PICK ANCHOR CHART.

I-PICK
1. I choose a book 
2. Purpose-Why do I want to read it?
3. Interest-Does it interest me?
4. Comprehend-Am I understanding what I am reading?
5. Know-I know most of the words

The sisters point out that a child’s purpose for reading, interest in a topic, and ability to comprehend played as large a role in finding a good-fit book as readability did.
The sisters do a phenomenal I-Pick a Good-Fit Book Lesson with their students that I totally copied. Basically to explain this concept you need to run around & get all kinds of shoes. I borrowed someone’s baby shoes & brought some of my husband’s shoes. You demonstrate how to pick a good-fit book by using the shoes as a visual. You go from shoe to shoe until you see that light bulb go off when you point out how my own shoe is the perfect “fit”….right? I also brought in a mountain biking magazine, a hunting magazine & Vogue or some kind of girly magazine. Then we discussed which would be a good “fit” for me. It reflected my “interest” so I would “pick” the girly magazine. 
Like I said you model & teach this method all year long and once we go shopping for books it’s amazing how you see it in action. 

Setting Up Book Boxes

I was lucky enough to get a hold of 23 of these bins from Target…..after I stalked about every Target in the area & attacked a stock boy unloading them. Anything for my little nuggets :o) Each child had their own bin that they stored in the bottom of their cubbies. 
I have so many books in my class I actually got rid of a TON at the end of the year. I only have AR books in my class that they can choose from. I put all they kindergarten level books in 4 containers they can pick from until I assess them using Dibels & get their TRC levels. So basically they don’t have a chance to choose the right book. I hide the chapter books until the end of the 2nd quarter. 
I’ve acquired such a LARGE collection of books by living at garage sales in the summer, Scholastic freebies & I get a ton of donations from parents. 
After I go over all the lessons to get them ready to shop for their books, we ONLY shop for books on Monday. Later in the year as they started taking & passing so many AR tests I allowed them to switch the book out that they passed for another one & it worked out just fine. 

ANCHOR CHARTS
If you google D5 anchor charts you will get a TON that pop up. As I said earlier, I do all mine digitally on my Smartboard as a class & then save it & refer to them often. 

SHORT INTERVALS OF REPEATED PRACTICE
This is where the stamina building comes in. I started out building our stamina during Read to Self in 3 minute increments and yes there were some days where we didn’t increase by 3 minutes & broke stamina. After someone would break stamina we would regroup & discuss what went wrong & then the child or children would be held accountable. We did this for every part of D5 that I introduced. 

SIGNALS AND CHECK IN

CORRECT MODEL/INCORRECT MODEL 

I really had fun with this & so did the kids. These are just some pics I had taken during the school year. Next year I will show these pics to my students. The above is the correct model of “Read to Someone”. This year since it was my first year we acted it out. I would have them sprawl out, roll on the ground, scream across the room….& they giggled so hard. Since we modeled the incorrect way they had the visual of what not to do & this really does help them. 
 

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