The CAFE is an acronym for Comprehension, Accuracy, Fluency, and Expanding Vocabulary.  The reading strategies that we will learn about will fit under these main categories.

Comprehension

Accuracy

Fluency

Expanded

Vocabulary

I understand what I read
I can read the words
I can read accurately with expression and understand what I read
I know, find and use interesting words

Check for understanding

Backup and Reread

Monitor and Fix Up

Retell the story

Use prior knowledge to coeect with text

Make a picture or mental image

Ask questions throughout the reading process

Predict what will happen, use text to confrim

Infer and support with evidence

Use text features (titles, heading, captions, graphic features)

Summarize text, include sequence of main events

Use main idea and supporting details to determine importance

Determine and analyze author's purpose and support with text

Recognize literary elements (genre, plot, character, setting, problem/solution)

Recognize and explain cause and effect realtionships

Compare and contrast within and between text

 

Cross Checking... Do the pictures and/or words look right? Does it sound right? Does it make sense?


Use the picture... Do the words and pictures match?


Use beginning sounds and ending sounds


Blend sounds, stretch and read


Flip the sounds


Chunk letters and sounds together


Skip the word then come back


Trade a word/guess a word that makes sense

Voracious Reading


Read appropriate level text that are a “Good Fit”


Reread text


Practice common sight words and high frequency

words


Adjust and apply different reading rates to match text


Use punctuation to enhance phrasing and prosody (end marks, commas etc)

Voracious Reading


Tune in to interesting words and use new vocabulary in my speaking and writing


Use pictures, illustrations and diagrams


Use word parts to determine meaning of words(prefixes, suffixes, origins, abbreviations)


Use prior knowledge and context to predict and confirm meaning


Ask someone to define the word for you


Use dictionaries, thesauruses and glossaries as tools

These strategies will be posted in our classroom.  We will start the school year with a blank board - only the headings will appear on our board.  As the year goes on and we learn each strategy, students will be in charge of writing them down and adding them to our CAFE board.  This will give them ownership of the board.  We will refer to it everyday as we practice and review the strategies.