Daily 5 Literacy Stations!!!! Holy email, you all have a ton of questions, and while I’d love to claim that I’m an expert, I can really only tell you how this works in my own classroom.
Either way, they go to the same ‘work on writing’ station. Really though, you can substitute that second ‘meet the teach’ station where ever you think students need extra help. You may want your more independent groups to go to ‘work on writing’ independently that rotation and put your second ‘meet the teach’ card with a group that needs help rhyming at a word work station. Just move the cards around or substitute them as needed.


And although we aren’t quite ready to talk about it yet, inside each drawer for let’s say ‘word work #1’ there will be different colored storage materials for holding materials for each color coded group. This is how I tier their independent stations. I love love love poly envelopes for organizing my tiers. I prefer to use just the clear kind now and label them with a large colored circle to indicate group color. But seriously, these poly envelopes are the BEST.
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This is so helpful! I”m a first year k teacher and am wanting to use Daily 5, this is the best help so far! Thanks for making it all free!!
That’s so nice. Thanks for letting me know this helped.
Marsha
Thank you so much for these wonderful resources and printables. I am new to kindergarten and Daily 5 and this is extremely helpful!
I recognize that green tub inside your plastic drawer- I just picked up a bunch at Dollar Tree for my Word Work Station as well! 🙂 Thanks so much for all your helpful posts Marsha, they’ve really helped me envision what D5 will look like in my kinder classroom this year. It means a lot that you take the time in your busy schedule to help us all out! 🙂 Can’t wait to see your lesson plan!
~Jessica
Fun in PreK-1 & Kinder
You are always super organized, one day when I grow up I want to be like you 🙂
Even though I don’t use D5 I still get lots of ideas that I use and incorporate with my centers.
Thanks for the ideas
Looks great!
Jennifer
First Grade Blue SKies
This is PERFECT! Why have I never thought to keep my chart the same and just use a magnet? Genius! Can’t wait to read your entire D5 series to help me implement this year.
Thanks for all the great literacy center suggestions and photos.
THANK YOU ~ THANK YOU~ THANK YOU…for sharing this great resource for Daily 5. I cannot wait to use it in my classroom! Amber Kindergarten Rocks Blog
Such great information! I’ve read this post so many times and each time I pick up something new. I’ll be waiting patiently for your next post! Thanks, Marsha!
Lori
Teaching With Love and Laughter
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Amazing as ever…I have shared your blog with the six of members of my grade level and other K teachers that I know. Great stuff and thanks for sharing!
I just found your site and I love it! Your first 2 week break down of your stations was wonderful! Do you plan on sharing the rest of any ones you’ve done? 🙂
I’ve been doing Daily5 for a couple years but the organizing part is where I struggle. Thanks for the great blog and tips! Thank you for making the resources a freebie! They will be used!
Thanks so much for your wonderful format and ideas! I appreciate the time you take to explain everything! I have been following you and for a while and have gained so much from your ideas! One question – at one time did you have alphabet letter cards that the children wear when making words? I thought your site had them and now I can’t find the correct site!
Thanks for taking the time to reply!
Maryann
brennemm@carlisleschools.org
Yes MaryAnn. There are letter placards available at both my tpt and teachers notebook stores as freebies. I would share the link but I have no power and I’m replying by phone. So tedious…sorry and let me know if you have trouble finding them
Marsha
I’m so sorry to hear you have no power! I was wondering if you could tell me where you found the plastic pouches that you put your tiered activities in? I love the idea, but am not sure where to find them. Thanks!!
I think I got those particular ones at Target
Marsha
Your ideas, organization, and format for literacy stations are GREAT! I have so enjoyed reading your posts, and I am anxious to implement some of your procedures. I am wondering, if the groups are not necessarily grouped by ability level, (which is great), how do you do a meet with the teacher group that would need to be instructed at the same ability level? That is always my dilemma when trying not to make station groups according to ability level.
Thanks!
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Can you tell me exactly what is in your listening bags? I don’t really have a listening station, so I am looking for some ideas. Thank you again for all the great information! I am anxiously awaiting the next post!
This is the best explanation I’ve come across so far on how to implement this in a kindergarten classroom without it becoming a HUGE headache and massive job! I tried last year to start Daily 5 with my kinders but became increasingly frustrated with the group I was working with and it never got to the “there” stage! I’m hoping I will do better this year after seeing such an amazing example! Thank you! 🙂
Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful resource! Your organization and ideas are fantastic.
You are helping me get excited to get back to school! Thanks!!
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You use almost all the same resource books I use, next Step to Guided Reading, Daily 5, Handwriting Without tears..would love to see your daily schedule!
PS, school starts Wed. And I am just now revamping my Daily 5 to daily 6, with the Friday off. I LOVE your ideas!!!! My new principal is all about differentiation and our state just gave us $275 for out of pocket expenses. Mine will be used to purchase your things, printer ink and that cool little laminator! (We have a strict limit of how much we can laminate at school). I am so excited!
Hi, great article. It’s a bit long though, hard to follow at some points.
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I am ready to give it a try. For planning, do you have your visual plan on paper that we could use rather than retyping it. I am hoping to print this and input my activites each week when planning.
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So excited to find your post today. For the last two years I have been researching the daily 5, but could not figure out how to make it work in my small room with so many K students. (24) This is so workable. Thanks so much.
Hi Marsha. Thanks for this fabulous post. I am starting daily five next Tuesday when my Little Learners return from spring holidays. It is our fourth and final term together in Kindergarten but I figured, why not start something new. Your post has both supported and encouraged me greatly – thank you!
Julie
Mrs Stowe’s Kinder Cottage
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Hi Marsha,
You are a differentiating genius! Thank you so much. This will prove to be useful. I will be implementing this as soon as possible. Could you supply the templates for the lesson plan and Monday/Wednesday and Tuesday/Thursday cards as they were not in your freebie? Thanks again for helping all of us with this confusing daily five plan that you made simple…
Where did you get the actual activities that the students were using? I think they are grrreeeattt and I would love to implement them!
Thank you for sharing your organization. I think that it is so important to look at different organizing frameworks. The pics are so cute. Liz 🙂
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This is greatly organized for what I need as we go to Full Day Kindergarten next year. I was wondering, since you have the tiered word work, when do you teach the students the different activities that go in there, especially since they change.
This is a great post ! it was very informative. I look forward in reading more of your work. Also, I made sure to bookmark your website so I can come back later. I enjoyed every moment of reading it.
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I have just taken over a kindergarten position for a teacher who moved away. The school year ends in 3 months–do you think it’s too late to start daily 5 now? My class size is 23 students with varying degrees of independence and reading skills. They definitely need some structure and more focused time with reading, however I only have the morning session with them. I’m not sure if I should try to implement daily 5 now a few months before the school year ends or save it until next year.
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I was trying to download your daily 5 cards but for some reason they won’t print. Has anyone else had this problem? I am really wanting to implement daily 5 next year in my classroom.
I am having the same problem downloading as Melanie above (date: 6/8/14). Is there a different link?
Thank you! These look amazing.
I am going into my first year teaching as a Kindergarten teacher, and am working on putting together center rotations for use during guided reading instruction. I LOVE the organization that you are using. I have heard of the Daily 5, and have been wanting to learn all about it. I’m starting off slow, but this seems like a good place to start. Thank you for the motivation and guidance to get started! :o)
They won’t print for me either. I would really like to use them and school is starting very soon. I just found out I am moving to kindergarten and am feeling overwhelmed right now starting up Daily 5 as long with everything else. We are departmentalized so I have 20 minutes to do these centers. I think I will do 1 a day during that time and have 6 (2 teacher groups with an aide) and do them 3 days a week (schedule only allows for 3) for 2 weeks. Just not sure exactly how to get it all organized.
I really want to print these but they won’t download.
Thank you so very much for the detailed explanation and the printables! I truly appreciate this help. My question is: When students get to Meet with the Teacher, are you meeting with students from different ability levels within one group? I was very excited about not having to group according to ability but I’m not sure how to handle meeting with different abilities at the same time. Thanks again!
I was about to ask the same question!! I’m glad i read before I posted.
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How many storage bin drawers do you recommend?
Where do you find your cd-disk players for the listening center? Is there just one player in each bag with one book?
Thanks.
It depends on how many ‘choices’ you want to give your students at each station. I have a 9 drawer system at one work work station, a 6 drawer system at another and then a three drawer system at work on writing. I purchased my CD players on Amazon. There is one player for each bag.
Marsha
Also, what do you have students do with finished work? Do you have a bin or bins for finished and unfinished work? Or do the students keep it?
I have a bin for finished work and students have poly envelopes for unfinished work.
Marsha
Is there anywhere on your TPT store where I can purchase your daily 5 rotation cards?
You can have them for free! 🙂 Go to the bottom of this post
http://differentiatedkindergarten.com/organizing-daily-5-literacy-stations-in/
and grab them up.
Marsha,
I love these centers cards and they have worked perfectly in my classroom. Is there anyway you can make a few new cards for me that match these? I would like one that says “Computer”, “Word Work #3”, “Word Work #4”, “Word Work #5”, and “Word Work #6”.
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I am revamping the way I rotate my literacy centers. I have always struggled with the management piece. I am spending my Sunday and Institute Day tomorrow following your method. Thank you so much for sharing all of this. Wish I could be like you!
Thanks a ton Laura. Let me know if you have any questions.
Marsha
Thank you so much for all the AMAZING resources for Daily 5–And thank you for making it FREE to all of us!! Excited to read about your other material you have to offer! Thanks again!! 🙂