Reading is
fundamental. With the adoption of the Common Core Standards,
this phrase has never been more evident. The new standards emphasize three
critical areas for reading success: foundational skills, literature, and
informational text. How can you prepare yourself to teach to the Common Core
Reading standards, but yet keep your creativity? Both Eric and I will be
covering the structure, the method, the strategies and the motivational tools
in upcoming blog
posts to help student succeed in the Common Core classroom.
The first part of creating a Common Core reading classroom is having a structure in place. In our classroom, we use The Daily 5. If you are not familiar with The Daily 5, click here. The Daily 5 is a great way for students to take pride and ownership in their daily learning in the Language Arts classroom. When we are meeting with our guided reading groups, the rest of the students are either doing read to self (reading silently), read to someone (reading with a partner), working on writing (writing choices), listen to reading (listening to books on cassette, or mp3 players) or word work (doing numerous activities related to the grammar and structure). We have found that students truly enjoy being able to have the freedom to make choices on a daily basis of what they would like to accomplish. We just have the rule that they must select “read to self” every day.
The first part of creating a Common Core reading classroom is having a structure in place. In our classroom, we use The Daily 5. If you are not familiar with The Daily 5, click here. The Daily 5 is a great way for students to take pride and ownership in their daily learning in the Language Arts classroom. When we are meeting with our guided reading groups, the rest of the students are either doing read to self (reading silently), read to someone (reading with a partner), working on writing (writing choices), listen to reading (listening to books on cassette, or mp3 players) or word work (doing numerous activities related to the grammar and structure). We have found that students truly enjoy being able to have the freedom to make choices on a daily basis of what they would like to accomplish. We just have the rule that they must select “read to self” every day.
Click here for a link
to 18 FREE Daily 5 resources that we use in our intermediate classrooms, or
below to access them individually. Since the resources are saved in Microsoft
Word, they can be edited to fit your grade levels too.
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