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This summer, I read the Daily 5: Fostering Literacy Independence in the Elementary Grades and The CAFE Book: Engaging All Students in Daily Literacy Assessment & Instruction by Gail Boushey & Joan Moser “The Sisters.” The Daily 5 is a student-driven management structure designed to fully engage students in reading and writing.
The book is about helping students develop independent literacy habits, so that teachers are free to work with small groups or have individual conferences. Once the Daily 5 has become a habit for students, teachers use instructional time to present daily focus lessons on comprehension strategies, writer’s craft, phonics, and other components of their literacy curriculum to the whole class. This book is also about developing shared awareness and instructional routines with students, through specific, focused teaching, while balancing students’ need for choice and independence.
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My Daily 5 and CAFE Board are on the same bulletin board. The Daily 5 anchor charts can be found at http://castlesandcrayons.blogspot.com/. The stamina anchor chart can be found at http://mrskincaid.blogspot.com/2012/06/building-stamina.html. The 3 ways to read a book anchor chart can be found at http://mrsrichardsonfirstgrade.blogspot.com/search/label/daily%205. My super cute monkey CAFE headers can be found at http://littlepriorities.blogspot.com/2012/07/cafe-headers-freebie.html. I fell in love with them! Above my CAFE board are author's purpose charts. They can be found at http://mrsgilchristsclass.blogspot.com/2011/07/authors-purpose-charts.html. Below my CAFE board are monster themed charts for the 4 types of sentences. They can be found at http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/4-Types-of-Sentences-Posters-FREE. Every one of these downloads are FREE!
This was before I added things above and below the board.
This is my Calendar Bulletin Board. It contains my lovely Number Line Hotel from Think Math. It is used for daily counting. Daily, we discuss a pattern on the calendar. I do "Days in School" with straws, ten frames, and tally marks. Daily, we quickly review the days of the week and months of the year. I love my greater than/less than gator poster below the board. :)
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This picture is of the whole display. Have you filled a bucket today? :)
RTCA staff will be "bucket filling" this year as well. I just finished this display this evening (12th) outside of Dr. Carson's office. Hope the staff will be as excited about this as I am. They'll learn all about it during Professional Development this Tuesday, August 14th. :)
Student work will be posted here on the wall to the left of my writing wall. It'll be right above my computers. ![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvpxV8L_VZ6XyTWvV23BRhqjZN3AEyhWzgZ962zUEUl6g7z7640nQp_F1U6SOo45Cfxj1wCz_Drsc3QdP3PhYD4odvnJIkVoIfRxyTSoJ2Zbp6LLYWKhFcQhgZaDDWGkM85-7OLbQJ0JTq/s320/wonderful+work.jpg)
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