Read to Self in Second Grade
A Component of the Daily Five (Virtual Tour)
Stage of Literacy Development:
Stage 2: Consolidation / FluencyAges:
6-8
Grade Range:
2ndFood Groups:
Primary: Reading Fluency & Expression, Reading Comprehension Strategies
Transcript
When we're introducing the various components of the Daily 5 program the first way we introduce them is with an I-Chart. I standing for independent, so students are taught that being independent means they're able to do something on their own. And we establish the why, the purpose, why are we doing this, why will we be spending so much time on Read to Self throughout the school year. And of course it's to become better readers, it's urgent to become a better reader and further develop our reading skills. So we lay it out in the framework of student and teacher, so the students know exactly what their jobs are and they know exactly what my job is. I have a job during Read to Self and that's to work with students, that's when I pull my group of students based on their strategies to work with, or I'm working one on one on students, if that's the need at that moment. If there's ever any glitches and the students aren't focused or they're not attending we refer back to the I-Chart regularly. We have the 10 steps to independence that's laid out very well in the Daily 5 book, and we follow those every time we introduce a new component to Daily 5. I've taken some pictures of the students, I take them the first few days when we're working on our stamina and we're all excited about becoming better at Read to Self, and again it provides them with some ownership and they like to see themselves up there as part of our classroom wall.
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Activity Objective
The goal of Read to Self in Second Grade: A Component of the Daily Five (Virtual Tour) is to use a method developed by Gail Boushey and Joan Moser to build students' reading fluency and comprehension skills by having students read independently on a regular basis.
Quick Tips
Additional Comments:
- Read to Self is a component of The Daily Five, an instructional framework for reading and writing. The Daily Five is a method developed by Gail Boushey and Joan Moser and provides students with a series of independent and guided literacy tasks.
- Encourage students to find a quiet place in the classroom to read independently for the given time period.
- Explicitly modeling what reading independently looks like provides students with a visual representation of the activity expectations.
- Provide students with guidelines in choosing good-fit books, books that are at their level and of interest to them. Visit the classroom or school library and have the students choose up to 8 good-fit books to keep in their book bins.
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