The first of the kindergarten Daily Five tasks asks students to read to themselves. Provide them with plenty of age- and ability-appropriate books. Each student should have access to a book to read to themselves for a few minutes each school day. Allow students to choose their own books and read without too much direction from you.
The second task of the Daily Five is reading to someone else. One way to achieve this is to send the same book the child read to themselves home with them to read to a parent. Another is to pair children off and let them take turns reading to each other. Perhaps you could choose two or three students per day to read to you so that you can monitor their progress. For fun, students might have a day where they bring their favorite teddy bears to school and read to them.
Working on writing is the third step in the Daily Five. Be sure to set aside time each day for students to practice writing. Students might draw a picture and write a simple story about it. One idea is to ask them to expand on the book they read to themselves and aloud that day. This is the time for students to learn about capital letters, punctuation and the basic structure of letters, words and sentences.
Set aside time each day for step four in the Daily Five: reading aloud to your students. Invite students to bring favorite books from home for you to read to the class. Read books that relate to what you're learning that week. Choosing the book of the day might be a reward for the student of the week or something a child can do on their birthday. This is your opportunity to get your students excited about reading.
Word work, or spelling and vocabulary, are the last of the Daily Five. Make this time fun by investing in some small white boards and letting students practice writing words from their chosen book of the day on them. They could also go on a word scavenger hunt, copying words they see around their classroom. Students also might keep a word journal, writing new words as they encounter them in their reading.