Daily+CAFE

The Daily 5 authors have a fantastic web site the has videos and articles about making the Daily 5 and CAFE Literacy Goals work in your classroom, PreK-middle school. Just click on this link, [|Dailycafe.com] to get a preview. It is a membership site, but there are many free resources to get you started.

Also, [|proteacher.net] is a free site that has chat rooms covering many educational topics. The Peony room is dedicated to Daily 5 conversations and real teachers making the process work.

There are many resources that i will put on this page that can help to explain this approach to individualizing and differentiating instruction. Come back soon!

Here is a quick power point: that shows the anchor charts that a 1st grade teacher made with her class as she taught them the structure of Daily 5 independent work. You will see that she actually has a daily 4, she chooses to have writing be a separate part of the day. The lessons that produce these anchor charts are in the book __The Daily 5:Fostering literacy independence in the elementary grades__.