C.A.F.E.+Strategies

Here are the CAFE strategies your child will be working on this year.
** ( Expanded Vocabulary ) ** || Do the pictures and/or words look right? Do they sound right? Do they make sense? || Reread the text || Use prior knowledge and context to predict and confirm reading || Do the words and pictures match? || Adjust and apply different reading rates to match the text || Use parts of words to determine the meaning of words (prefixes and suffixes) ||
 * = ** C **
 * ( Comprehension ) ** ||= ** A **
 * ( Accuracy ) ** ||= ** F **
 * ( Fluency ) ** ||= ** E **
 * Use prior knowledge to connect with text || Abundant easy reading || Voracious reading || Voracious reading ||
 * Make and adjust predictions; use text to confirm || Look carefully at letters and words || Read appropriate-level books that are a "good fit" || Tune in to interesting words ||
 * Infer and support with evidence || Cross checking...
 * Make a picture or mental image || Flip the sounds || Practice common sight words and high-frequency words || Use pictures, illustrations, and diagrams ||
 * Monitor and fix up || Use the pictures...
 * Check for Understanding || Use beginning and ending sounds || Use punctuation to enhance reading (end marks, commas, etc.) || Ask someone to define the word for you ||
 * Back up and Reread || Blend sounds; stretch and reread || Read text as the author would say it, conveying the meaning or feeling || Use dictionaries, thesauruses, and glossaries as tools ||
 * Ask questions throughout the reading process || Chunk letters and sounds together ||  ||   ||
 * Use text features (titles, headings, captions, graphic features) || Skip the word, then come back ||  ||   ||
 * Summarize text; include sequence of main events || Trade a word/guess a word that makes sense ||  ||   ||
 * Use main idea and supporting details to determine importance || Recognize words at sight ||  ||   ||
 * Determine and analyze author's purpose and support with text ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Recognize literacy elements (genre, plot, character, setting, problem/resolution, theme ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Recognize and explain cause-and-effect relationships ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Compare and contrast within and between text ||  ||   ||   ||