The Daily Five is a literacy framework that structures student time into daily habits of reading, writing, and collaboration. It provides students with five daily choices: Read to Self, Work on Writing, Listen to Reading, Read to Someone, and Word Work. These choices remain consistent all year. The Daily Five is supplemented by CAFE, which guides teachers to work one-on-one with students through small groups and conferences to develop comprehension, accuracy, fluency, and vocabulary. Together, the Daily Five and CAFE aim to foster independent literacy skills aligned with Common Core standards.

1. An Overview

2. What is The Daily Five?
 The Daily Five is a literacy framework
 It is unique in that it is a structure that
helps students develop daily habits of
reading, writing, and working together
fostering a lifetime of independent
literacy

4. Daily Five Overview
 Students choose between five choices for
reading
 Read to Self
 Work on Writing
 Listen to Reading
 Read to Someone
 Word Work

5. Read to Self

6. Work on Writing

7. Listen to Reading

8. Read to Someone

9. Word Work

10. The Daily Five
 Choices stay the
same all year and
are taught and
practiced until
students are
independent
(procedures!)
 For each choice you
start by creating an
I-chart and building
stamina

11. CAFÉ Menu
 Once students are independent with Daily Five choices,
CAFÉ is how the teacher works with students while they
are doing their Daily Five rotations
 Small Groups
 Individual Conferences and Goal Setting
 CAFÉ teaches students to set reading goals, monitor their
own learning, and become more strategic readers
 Teacher’s have documentation for each individual student
in their conferring notebook (like Sarah shared last year)

12. CAFÉ Literacy Menu
 100% skills based
Comprehension
 Mini lessons teach the
Accuracy strategies and then
students use them during
Fluency their Daily Five choices to
become better readers
Expand  These strategies also
Vocabulary become the student
reading goals

14. Pulling it all together
 What does a Daily Five reading block look like?
 10 minute Phonics Lesson
 20 minute Daily Five Rotation #1
 Each student chooses a Daily Five choice
 Teacher is working with small groups or doing individual
conferences (CAFÉ)
 10 minute Vocabulary Lesson
 20 minute Daily Five Rotation #2
 10 minute Skills Lesson (CAFÉ Strategy)
 20 minute Daily Five Rotation #3

15. How does Daily Five and CAFÉ
relate to CCSS?
 No hand holding—teaches independence
 Completely skills based—can be used with any
grade level or curriculum
 Procedures based—CHAMPS approved 
 Differentiation—book levels and student goals are
completely individualized
 Students take ownership of their own learning
which prepares them for higher education and the
real world

16. For more information…
 Read the books! I promise it will be worth
your time!
 Official Website:
http://www.thedailycafe.com/
 Search Daily Five or CAFÉ on Pinterest (tons
of free resources and ideas)
 Email me!
cbellotti@readingedgeacademy.org