Daily 5 Chapter 5

This week we are moving on to Chapter 5 of the Daily 5 book study.
Our hosts for the week are.

This chapter was all about Reading To Someone and Listening To Reading. These are two things that second graders love to do. I have always done partner reading and I know it is a valuable tool that my students really engage in.  However I have never had a Listening Center in my whole teaching career! Sad I know, but I have never had the funds for a listening center and no other 2nd grade teachers I worked with ever had one. It just seemed too young for my students. 

Well this book made me realize how important it was for my students to Listen to Reading. I will get back to this in a minute.

The main bulk of this chapter is about Reading To Someone.  The sisters really walk you through the steps of how to get this going.  I love their lessons, I-Chart ideas and stamina building.  It will take time, and that is where I get a bit nervous about implementing.  I feel like I need to jump into my curriculum and when will I have time for all of these lessons? 
Are you feeling the curriculum crunch?

After reading through and thinking about it, they are mini-lessons and I am sure I will find the time to implement  and still get in the schoolwide curriculum.

There are 6 planned out days that consist of:

EEKK, Voice, Check

I Read, You Read

How To Choose Books

Choosing Your Classroom Spot

How To Choose a Partner

Coaching or Time

These are all great lessons and I know every one is key to getting your kids to be able to Read To Someone without me having to intervene all the time.

In my class this year I always chose who they would read with.  When I let them choose it seemed like playtime.  I wandered around and sat with partners and listened to them read and coached them along the way, but if I wasn't right there, some of them were off task.

I really like how the book discussed comprehension checks between partners. I think this is so powerful in seeing if the students really know what they are reading.  I see this as taking lots of practice!

Another thing I really like is the choice students have about choosing a book.  I never thought to have them read two different books.

The next part of the chapter is Listen To Reading.  I know my kids love listening to me read. They look forward to it everyday!  So after I first read the Daily 5 I knew I needed to get a listening center going in my class.  I wrote up a Donor's Choose project and low and behold I was funded in less than two weeks!!

The kids loved it!  But I had a bit of a problem...The center can hook up lots of headphones, and lots of kids can listen, but the book sets that I got to go with it only had 1 book and 1 CD. So two people could comfortably share the one book, but I had to hunt down other copies for more kids. There was also some commotion over what book they ALL wanted to read first.

This year I want my kids to have more variety and choice, so I just wrote another project.  I am now asking for 4 individual CD players so that the kids can take the player and sit where they would like in the classroom.

Hopefully it will be funded soon.  I would love your ideas on getting more books and CDs for our listening library.  Are there any particular programs you use to record CDs? I haven't really played around or researched this yet, so your info would be greatly appreciated!

As the sisters state in the book Listening To Reading is not an area that needs a lot of stamina building, as kids really enjoy it.

I am really looking forward to next weeks chapter! I would love to see everyone's ideas on Writing and Word Work!

The hosts for next weeks Book Study are Jennifer from Best Practices 4 Teaching and Deb from Fabulously First.

Remember to Check out Mel D's posts and Nicole's as they are the Daily 5 gurus who started this book study!  Remember to link up below to your post on Chapter 5. Please leave a direct link to your Book Study post, not just your blog site.