Listening to Reading/Daily 5 Update

Thank you to the students and parents who have brought to my attention how difficult (impossible) it is to download audible books from the Public Library onto Apple products.  It is disappointing considering how many current titles are available.

Listening to Reading is still a valuable skill, and whenever possible, students should listen to quality reading.  There is a listening station in the classroom, however, access is limited to 5 students per rotation.  With 2-3 rotations/class, it will be difficult for all students to take advantage of it every week.

With student feedback, I am looking at how to change Daily 5 to work better in the rotary format.  Due dates and formal assignments are coming.  You can look forward to more discussion about this in class.  Any feedback you have on how to improve Daily 5 in English would be appreciated.

Some comments that I have heard are:

• more formal assignments with due dates
• reduce the rotations to 2/class with more formal teaching time (20 min rotations, 10 mins teaching)
• non Daily 5 classes for catch up
• add another list of challenging words for Word Work

I am excited to learn more from you.  It is your learning, your time.  Let's us it the best way possible!