How do you teach cafe reading strategies?

How do you teach cafe reading strategies?

CAFE Lessons

1. Check for understanding.
2. Back up and reread.
3. Monitor and fix up.
4. Retell the story.
5. Use prior knowledge to connect with text.
6. Make a picture or mental image.
7. Ask questions throughout the reading process.
8. Predict what will happen, use text to confirm.

What is the cafe reading strategy?

CAFE is an acronym for Comprehension, Accuracy, Fluency, and Expand Vocabulary. The CAFE Menu breaks each component—comprehension, accuracy, fluency, and expand vocabulary—into significant strategies that support each goal.

What does cafe stand for in reading?

An acronym for comprehension, accuracy, fluency, and expand vocabulary, CAFE is a system designed to help teachers work methodically through literacy standards based on students’ individual needs.

What guided reading?

Guided reading is an instructional approach that involves a teacher working with a small group of students who demonstrate similar reading behaviors and can read similar levels of texts.

What is the CAFE program?

Practices is a verification program that measures farms against economic, social and environmental criteria, all designed to promote transparent, profitable and sustainable coffee growing practices while also protecting the well-being of coffee farmers and workers their families and their communities. C.A.F.E.

How do you start guided reading?

Steps in the guided reading process:

1. Gather information about the readers to identify emphases.
2. Select and analyze texts to use.
3. Introduce the text.
4. Observe children as they read the text individually (support if needed).
5. Invite children to discuss the meaning of the text.
6. Make one or two teaching points.

What does cafe stand for in literacy category?

CAFE stands for the literacy goals of Comprehension, Accuracy, Fluency, and Expand Vocabulary, and the CAFE Menu contains the strategies readers use to meet the four main goals of reading.

Do you need to handwrite Cafe strategies for kindergarten?

If you’re teaching kindergarten and possibly first, you may wish to handwrite or type the strategies so that the students can read them. The CAFÉ Book suggests that the older students write the strategies to have ownership. In this case, as the book suggests, you would choose an “expert” to represent each strategy taught.

Where do the strategies in the cafe book come from?

The strategies come from The CAFÉ Book. They make up the CAFÉ menu. The mini lessons are how you teach each strategy. Since you will be reinforcing each strategy many times throughout the year you wouldn’t use the same mini lesson each time. See appendix 1, 2, and 3 for the CAFÉ menus.

What is the purpose of the cafe board?

The CAFE Board is a system that focuses class instruction, allows students to set reading and behavior goals, and monitors student progress. The below CAFE ™ strategy titles are linked to the CAFE ™ website for strategy lesson links.