I've been doing Daily 5 in my classroom since last year though I call it
Reading Workshop. I like that the kids are either reading or writing in
authentic ways and that I can manage to carry on my conferences without
interruptions, most of the time. A couple of weeks ago I pulled out the
Spelling/Work Work Daily because I wasn't happy with what I was offering the
kids as choices. I felt they weren't discovering anything worth spending the
time on it. Instead, I made it into a separate 1/2 hour time twice a week
since I've been reading The Wonder of Word Study by Lauren Berman Lucht. The
kids like being word detectives and I feel like they're constructing ideas
about spelling patterns in English.
Elisa
Elisa Waingort
Grade 2 Spanish Bilingual
Dalhousie Elementary
Calgary, Canada
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt within the heart.
—Helen Keller
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http://waingortgrade2spanishbilingual.blogspot.com/
I need to chime in here to say that our 1st, 2nd, ane 3rd grades followed the
5aily 5 regime religiously this year and the results are amazing!
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