Read to self time!

I am using "The Daily Five" for learning center choices. Here they are practicing" Read to Self" for the first time. The students go "shopping" each week to choose "good fit" books for their book bins. Then they choose a good reading spot and practice reading. In the beginning, we just read for a for a few minutes. As the year progresses, time is added and we work on building reading "stamina". They didn't want to quit when I was ready for them to on the first day!  That was exciting!