“The Daily 5” includes doing a bunch of activities to help get kids to write different words, increase retention and comprehension, expand vocabulary, and learning to spell. The Daily 5 includes 6 activities all together and one is switched out, so they can rotate through all 6 with each one taking 15 minutes each and they are 1. Work on writing 2. Read to self 3. Word work 4. Read to someone 5. Teacher table and 6. Listen to reading.
This is different from anything I did in school I only ever did clock buddies, it seemed like the kids enjoyed it and had fun doing these things. For their journals our co-op teacher also has a wall with Journal Prompts in case the children do not know what to write about and example of this would be “What do you like better soda or juice?” They are also given a booklet of words in case they do not know how to spell a word. As for the word work they are given a number of words each day to write down in their booklets they will even have themed word for certain things for example they had 12 words and they were Halloween themed. They each then get to write the words all in a different way. For example, one of the ways they could write them is called “Magic Words” what this is they take a white crayon write out the word and then color over it with a marker until it appears, I can say that I never had something like this in my Elementary school and I wish I did because it makes learning more fun. They also have a home reading program which is the same as what I did in school where you take home a book of your reading level and need to read it for the next day. The listening to reading was on an iPad set up to the right class. The program that they used is called Razkins how it works each kid can log into their own separate account and their account is level to what they can read. After they have listened to a book on Razkins they have to answer a series of questions based on the story they just listened to.
I chose to put this in my toolbox because I have seen many teachers use this but they are always called something else and I think it is a really effective was to get the children learning and comprehending. They use this in place of an English class and I think it keeps the kids wanting to learn about spelling and working on their writing.