Hi there!
I am also a reading specialist, and this year I have coached our teachers as they have implemented Daily 5 from Kindergarten through 5th grade in our school [I also teach the 5th grade reading/writing classes]. Here are some of the things I have tried as a fellow Title I teacher. First, for my tier 2 kids, I rarely pull them out of class anymore. Rather, to maintain Daily 5 structure and support the classroom teacher, I actually go into the classroom during Daily 5 time [for 2nd grade and 4th grade]. I simply look around to see what each of my intervention kiddos is up to, then start conferring. I typically stress a different strategy than our teachers [as a specialist, I tend to work with the kids on accuracy and fluency strategies].
For my kids that I pull out of the classroom [1st and 3rd graders this year], the structure looks different. On an ideal day, we practice read to someone [I can then confer individually], have a guided focus lesson, then do read to someone again, etc. I like to have my tier 3 kids reading aloud to one another for accountability. Also, they get plenty of read to self time in their classrooms, as well as work on writing, and they absolutely LOVE read to someone - especially because they are working with others at a similar level. They also take their read to someone books home to practice each night. My guided focus lessons are from the Read Well series.
I'm curious... what reading intervention materials do you use? I'm always wondering what programs people have found that work well in a Daily 5 setting.
