Morning work has become the staple lesson plan in many elementary classrooms. The short, focused lessons help transition students into the classroom environment while giving them appropriate review and practice. Morning work should be purposeful, manageable, and relevant. It should enhance your classroom instruction and reinforce concepts and skills your students learn throughout the school year. With consistent spiral review, students retain their learning and perform better on state achievement tests.
Evan-Moor’s line of Dailies provides short daily lessons across the curriculum. Whether you are looking for cross-curricular morning work or subject-specific practice, discover the books that work best for your classroom with these practice and teaching dailies.
Practice Dailies make it easy to practice and assess skills across the curriculum in just 10 minutes a day. The lessons support grade-level concepts and skills and reinforce lessons that are introduced in the core curriculum.
- Daily Fundamentals: cross-curricular morning work for math, reading, and language for grades 1–6.
- Daily Language Review: daily practice on grammar, punctuation, usage, and sentence editing skills for grades 1–8.
- Daily Higher-Order Thinking: helps students apply critical thinking skills across subject areas. The lessons develop students’ higher-order thinking skills and allow them to integrate their learning and make deeper connections between their learning and the real world. For grades 1–6.
- Daily Math Practice: provides practice of computation, problem solving, geometry, and measurement for grades 1–6.
- Daily Word Problems: offers standards-based word problems based on diverse real-life situations requiring numerous computational skills for grades 1–6.
- Building Spelling Skills: provides practice on grade-level spelling words and strategies for grades 1–6.
- A Word a Day: offers vocabulary practice to enrich and expand students’ receptive and expressive vocabulary for grades 1–6.
- Daily Paragraph Editing: provides mechanics and usage editing practice using varied writing forms and cross curricular topics for grades 2–8.
- Daily Handwriting Practice: provides handwriting, contemporary cursive and traditional cursive practice for grades 1–6.
Teaching Dailies make it easy to deliver focused instruction to supplement any core curriculum in just 20 minutes a day. Teacher pages reduce lesson prep time with suggested teaching paths and additional information. Skills are organized around weekly concepts, and activities integrate critical thinking into the instruction.
- Daily Reading Comprehension: direct instruction on reading comprehension strategies such as monitoring comprehension, making connections, visualizing, and determining important information are skills that help students read and respond to texts. For grades 1–8.
- Daily 6-Trait Writing: provides direct instruction on the six traits of writing—ideas, organization, voice, sentence fluency, word choice, and conventions—through scaffolded lessons that focus on specific writing skills. For grades 1–8.
- Daily Geography Practice: 36 map lessons introduce basic geography skills and geography terms with hand-on instruction. For grades 1–6.
- Daily Phonics: systematic phonics instruction in just 10 to 20 minutes a day for grades 1–6.
- Daily Science: standards-based science lessons, vocabulary, and hands- on activities for grades 1–6.
- Daily Academic Vocabulary: teach students key academic vocabulary they will encounter in multiple subject areas. For grades 2–6.
*Save time at the copier and order student books. The student book corresponds to the teacher’s edition but does not contain an answer key.
For more information on how to use dailies in your classroom instruction check out:
One Teacher’s Story: My Morning Routine
Meaningful and Manageable Morning Centers
3 Reading Comprehension Strategies to Teach Author’s Purpose
Heather Foudy is a certified elementary teacher with over 7 years’ experience as an educator and volunteer in the classroom. She enjoys creating lessons that are meaningful and creative for students. She is currently working for Evan-Moor’s marketing and communications team and enjoys building learning opportunities that are both meaningful and creative for students and teachers alike.