Stage 1: Identify Desired Results

Unit Title: Daily 5 and CAF Instruction

Established Goals:
Implement the Daily 5 and CAF Instructional Strategies
Evaluate student reading skills
Guide student to improve reading skills

Enduring Understandings
Students will understand that
applying strategies while reading will
make them better readers

Essential Questions
Depth of Knowledge:
Can a student improve ones reading skills
through reading to self?
Can a student improve ones reading skills
through working with words?
Can a student improve ones reading skills
through working on writing?
Can a student improve ones reading skills
through listening to reading?
Can a student improve ones reading skills
through reading to a partner?

Students will be able to

apply strategies when reading to self, working with words, working on writing, listening to
reading, and reading to a partner to improve ones reading skills in the areas of comprehension,
accuracy, fluency, and expanded vocabulary

Stage 2: Determine Evidence for Assessing Learning

Performance Tasks:
Read to self
Work with new words
Work on writing
Read to a partner
Listen to reading

Other Evidence:
Independent Reading Inventory Data
Read a story using pictures and text
Retell a story after reading
Define and draw a picture of a new word
Record new words
Retell a story after listening

Stage 3: Build Learning Plan

Learning Activities:
Day 1
1. Review the
goals with
the student
2. Model the
3 Ways to
Read a
Book. #s
1 and 2- 15
minutes
3. Model
picking a
good fit
book and
guide the
student to
choose a
good place
to read. 15
minutes
4. Introduce
and
implement
the 10
Steps to
Reading
and
Learning
strategy
5. Introduce
and
implement
Read to
Self using
the Read to
Understan
d strategy
with an IChart. 30
Minutes

Day 2
1. Administer
an
Individual
Reading
Inventory
2. Conference
with the
student
about what
you
observed
on Day 1 in
your CAF
Notebook:
Discuss and
record her
reading
strengths
and
weaknesses
on her
reading
conference
chart then
guide the
student to
use work
think
strategy
when
reading. 15
minutes.
3. Introduce,
implement,
and model
a whole
group
instruction
lesson on
Cross
Checking
for
improving
reading
accuracy
4. Guide the
student to
use the

Day 3
1. Introduce,
implement,
and model
whole
group
lesson on
rereading
words for
accuracy.
2. Guide the
student to
practice
Daily 5
word work
with a
book and
vocabulary
cards.
3. Conference
with the
student and
record data
in the
CAF
Notebook.
#s 1, 2,
and 3 15
minutes.
4. Implement
round 2 of
Daily 5
beginning
with a
whole
group
instruction
al lesson to
review
reading for
comprehen
sion, cross
checking,
and reread
a word
followed
by the
student
choosing a

Day 4
1. Daily 5
round 1:
Introduce,
implement
and model
Work on
Writing
during a
whole
instruction
group
lesson
with a
focus on
identifying
new words
and
writing
them in
the
students
notebook.
2. Guide
student to
choose a
book and
the Work
on Writing
on Daily 5
then
working
on the
skill
independe
ntly 15
minutes
3. Implement
another 3
Daily 5
rounds.
Each
beginning
with a
whole
group
instruction
al practice
to review

Day 5
1. Daily 5
round 1:
Introduce,
implement,
and model
reading a
story,
identifying
new words,
and writing
the new
words on
an easel
and the
students
notebook.
2. Guide the
student to
choose the
Read to
Self Daily
5 and a
book then
read the
story and
look for
new words.
The
student
should
record new
words in
the
students
notebook.
3. The
instructor
should
observe
student
performanc
e, record
data, and
record time
on the
stamina
chart.
4. Conference

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7.

8.

9.

Read to
Self Daily
5 choice
and to
apply the
Check for
Understand
ing and
Cross
Checking
strategies
when
reading
Record
observation
s in the
CAF
Notebook
on the
students
Reading
Conference
with Icons
chart
Record the
students
reading
stamina on
the stamina
chart
Conference
with the
student and
complete
recording
data on the
students
Reading
Conference
with Icons
chart 20
minutes.
Introduce a
whole
instruction
lesson to
review
Check for
Understand
ing and
Cross
Checking
Guide the

book to
read and
one of the
already
learned
Daily 5
5. Record
Stamina,
conference
with the
student,
update the
students
Conference
chart in the
CAF
Notebook
20 minutes
6. Repeat #s
4 and 5 for
the 3rd
round of
Daily 5. 20
minutes.

consecutiv
ely on
Understan
d to
Comprehe
nd, Cross
Checking,
and
Rereading
Text
through
choosing
the Daily
5 Work on
Words,
Read to
Self, and
Read to a
Partner
choices
4. Observe
student
performan
ce during
each round
and record
Stamina
after each
round
5. End the
Daily 5
with a
conference
to record
student
strengths,
weaknesse
s,
observatio
ns, and
goals. 45
minutes.

with the
student.
Guide the
student to
choose one
new word
from the
students
notebook,
add a
definition
and draw a
picture.
The
student
should
share the
new card
with ones
parents. 20
minutes.
5. Implement
another 4
Daily 5
rounds.
Each
beginning
with a
whole
group
instruction
al practice
to review
consecutiv
ely on
Understand
to
Comprehe
nd, Cross
Checking,
and
Rereading
Text
through
choosing
the Daily
5. Work on
Words,
Read to
Self, and
Read to a
Partner
choices

student to
choose the
Read to
Partner
Daily 5
strategy
10. Observe the
student
Reading to
a Partner
and record
data in your
CAF
Notebook
20 minutes.

Adapted From Wiggins & McTighe, Understanding by Design

6. Observe
student
performanc
e during
each round
and record
stamina
after each
round
7. End the
Daily 5
with a
conference
to record
student
strengths,
weaknesse
s,
observatio
ns, and
goals. 40
minutes.