Listen to Reading I-Chart

Sorry friends I've been gone for so long! I will have to catch you up later.

Many of you have asked for the Listen to Reading I-Chart, so I've whipped it up for you! Enjoy!

Listen to Reading I-Chart

For the love of Word Work

Let me tell you that Word Work is my favorite part of Daily 5. FAV-OR-ITE! And the kids love it to, so isn't that special!

The beauty of Daily 5 is the time is saves the teacher! Yes, the teacher SAVES time. I remember back in the day spending my afternoons and weekends making copies, cutting manipulatives, etc. getting ready for next week's stations. I'm exhausted just thinking about it. Blah!

So, what I love about Daily 5 is I introduce the activities and the children use these same activities week after week. (The students think they are games because they are so fun!) Yes, some activities they will out grow and we will retire. We will add some activities here and there throughout the year as their skills progress, but I am NOT spending my precious time coming up with new activities each week. Promise!

Okay, so there are TONS of word work activities out there in the big blog world, or in my case pinterest. Several of which I will refer to soon. My biggest hurdle was figuring out how to differentiate the word study for my students. We all have such a wide range of students, how was I going to meet ALL their needs and keep them ALL progressing? Million dollar question, right? I did lots of research in our professional library at school, talked with teachers and literacy coaches, and read lots of articles online.

Finally, I came across this and a little light went on. Best of all, it's by Beth Newingham- we all know she rocks the literacy house! What I love about her word study is she combines Words Their Way and high frequency word inventories. I did have to make little changes here and there for my firsties, but she did the leg work. Thanks Beth!

So, here's what I did: I made a high frequency chart using Fry's list (that's what my district uses.) I gave two inventories, the first for words 1-20, the next week 21-40. A few of my kids mastered those easy-peasy, so I pulled them in small group and continued until we found some that didn't already know.

Each student now has a blue word study folder with the Fry's list in the brads. I highlighted the words they already know, and circled the words I wanted them to work on. Now, when they go to word work they have a customized list to work on. Genius!

Beth does a spelling test each week and they work with partners to test five of the circled words. I'm still ironing out the details of how I'm going to manage their progression in the folders. I'm thinking my high school intern may check in with them individually each week to check their progress and give them new words when they master the circled ones. We'll just wait and see how this goes.

Now to the fun stuff! My word work activities- here goes nothing!

1. Bottle of Words

If found the original bottle of words on pinterest. You can check it out here. I made my own recording sheet for whole group practice. Then, I cut and glued the headings into a spiral. I put a colored dot on top of the bottle to match the corresponding spiral and we were ready to go. They love it. (I used packing peanuts instead of the noodle things. I just wanted something quiet!)

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2. Winning Word Roll

Love this game, especially now that they have their own list of words to work on. To download this, go here.

3. Keyboard

Again, they are practicing their own words. They get to "type" their words using colored fly swatters. My student teacher made the keyboard last year using a shower curtain liner. She used a sharpie to draw the keys then stuck on vinyl letters. Some of the letters are starting to peel. If they come off you can just draw them in with a sharpie. If you teach kinder, this game is a must! I promise it helped them so much when we went to the computer lab. They were no longer searching for the right key like lost little sheep.

4. Spinners

The students get to practice writing their words in different ways. Surprisingly the boys LOVE this. To download, go to my post called THE SPINNER.

5. Fry's Phrases

Still working on this one, but my sweet friend Ally let me take a picture of hers. She is awesome and this is her awesome idea. Write Fry's phrases on craft sticks, students pull the stick and read the phrase. She even put them in a McDonald's fries carton. CUTE!

6. Texting Words

I'm currently collaborating with our iTeam to create an Iphone texting page, but I totally stole the idea from Teacher Tipster. You can download the blackberry page here. Oh, and while you are there scroll down to the One Breath Boxes. Awesome!

7. Kaboom

Last year we called this pop and it was a hit. This year I changed the name because it would be way to babyish to play a kindergarten game! Sheesh! Basically I write or glue the Fry's words

on craft sticks and stick them in a can. I also add several sticks with Kaboom on them. Students pull a stick and read the word. If they don't know the word, they return the stick. They keep the sticks they can read. When they pull Kaboom, all the sticks are returned. This game can get really silly, so I will probably create some sort of recording chart or a way to make them more accountable since we are first graders now!

I know I mentioned this before, but I don't put these ALL out at once. It's always fun to rotate the activities, but it's nice to have several to choose from. I hope you found something here you can use. I will post my iPhone text page as soon as possible! If you find something fabulous for word work, please leave a comment and share!

Almost forgot, I found this really cool sight word game on pinterest. She used Candy Land and turned it into a game. Check it out! I went ahead and typed up most of the Fry's first 100. I left off the super easy ones like a, I, up, and at. But for the most part they are all there. Enjoy!

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Daily 5 I-Charts

Hello friends,

I hope you had another terrific week. I'm going to break one of those blog etiquette rules today and post twice. For now, I'm going to give you all copies of our Daily 5 I-Charts. You'll notice I don't have Listen to Reading posted yet, we are still working on that. I consider myself very lucky that we are already up to "Daily 4" in mid September. It helps when you get to keep your kids for two years. Just know, we may be doing 4 parts of the Daily 4, but we are definitely still building our stamina on the Read to Someone part.

You'll notice that each I-chart has two pages. One page is the chart I created with my students. We use words like "participation" because that's part of our Mustang Code. Or, when we refer to voice levels, we usually have something like voice level 0 (silent) or voice level 1 (whisper/six inch voice). You probably don't want that, so I made an extra page that closely follows the book.

If you want to download just click below.



I'm sorry issuu is making you create an account to print and download- yikes! I tried to fix that, but I'm not an issuu expert at this point. Here are the links for google docs. :)

Read to Self PDF

Read to Self Powerpoint

Read to Someone PDF

Read to Someone Powerpoint

Word Work PDF

Word Work Powerpoint

Work on Writing PDF

Work on Writing Powerpoint

Have fun! Check back tonight when I post details of our Word Work station with printables.

Just what the teacher ordered- more Daily 5!

I don't know about you, but that first week wiped me out! I have a class full of sweeties, twenty-two of them to be exact. Let me tell you, looping is definitely the way to go! These kids are already trained in the Scott ways.

Let's get to the good stuff- more Daily 5. So last week we reviewed the three ways to read a book. I made a handwritten little poster with the kids and if you know me you know I despise my handwriting. So what did I do? I made a spiffy one on the computer, of course. Best of all, I'm attaching it here for you.

One more thing- and I cannot claim this as my own. A sweet little teacher across the hall from me came up with this. She drew it all cute and put it up on the chalkboard. Miss Cooper is the best! Again, I'm not that talented to free draw something like that. So, I made my own. Yes, it's a Read to Self time-o-meter. Great for the beginning of school when we are building STAMINA! I think the kids will love it. When you click here you will get two copies of it, you can decide which color scheme you like better. Sorry, mine only goes up to 15 minutes. Maybe I'll make some other chart to get from 15 to 20. We will just have to wait and see!

I hope you all had a great start to school. Can't wait to get back to blogging on a regular basis!

Daily 5

So, to say I LOVE Daily 5 would truly be an understatement. I have shared many of my files and documents with Crandall and Coppell friends but wanted to make this available for the lovely bloggers out there that are curious about The Daily 5. Besides, the files you see below are NOT my ideas, I simply read the book, implemented in my classroom, and made them look cute for my kids. Please use these resources, let me know what you think, and don't be afraid to email me if you have any lingering questions. (nscott@coppellisd.com)

Yay, I figured out how to attach Daily 5 Docs! Just click on the title and it will open google docs.

Read to Someone-Different Ways

Read to Someone- Check for Understanding

Read to Someone-Coaching

Read to Someone- EEKK

Daily 5 Handouts created by Dolly Wadlington and Nicole Scott

To find out more about The Daily 5 and the 2 Sisters click here.

P.S. Classroom pictures and virtual tour coming soon! By soon, I mean as soon as I get back to Texas.:)