The Daily 5

I'm currently in the middle of The Daily 5: Fostering Literacy Independence in the Elementary Grades. I'm dying to get through it and attempting to adapt it to my 6th grade class. I've been following "We Read, We Blog, We Teach" for the book study and cannot get over how many great ideas people have about using this for the upper grades. While this isn't the first time I've taken an introspective look at my teaching, it is the first time that I've really wanted to revamp EVERYTHING in my Language Arts world. As I enter my 14th (!) year of teaching, I feel like a first-year teacher all over again, wondering how exactly I'm going to make this work. Here's hoping I can figure it out in the next 3 1/2 weeks.