CAFÉ
Engaging Third and Fourth Grade Students in Assessment and Instruction (Virtual Tour)
Stage of Literacy Development:
Stage 2: Consolidation / FluencyStage 3: Literacy for Growth
Ages:
6-12
Grade Range:
1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6thFood Groups:
Primary: Reading Fluency & Expression, Reading Comprehension Strategies
Secondary: Vocabulary
Transcript
This is our CAFÉ menu board. CAFÉ stands for comprehension, accuracy, fluency, and expanding vocabulary. Under comprehension, we would do a mini-lesson, and these are the strategies we were working on under comprehension. Do I understand what I am reading? When the child is working on a comprehension strategy, they place a Post-It note under the comprehension sign so we know that the child is working there. If a child is working on accuracy, can I read the words, they would work on one of the strategies we've worked on like, chunking letters, and sounding out words. They would place the sticky note underneath the accuracy poster so we can see they are working on that strategy. Under fluency, how accurately can I read with expression and understand the text, we might work on practicing rereading the text so that they become fluent and in a natural speaking voice. And again, they would place their sticky notes underneath. In expanding vocabulary, we are looking for that voracious reading where they're tuning into interesting words, and also practicing using the dictionary to find out what those interesting words mean. If we really like a word, we put it on our expanding vocabulary word collector, and that's where the children would be able to go to that poster and use those words in their writing every day.
Related References
The Daily Café: http://www.thedailycafe.com/ The Café Menu: http://www.thedailycafe.com/CAFE_Menu_New.pdf Conferring Sample Chart: http://www.thedailycafe.com/Conferring%20Sample%20Chart.pdf
Activity Objective
The goal of CAFÉ: Engaging Third and Fourth Grade Students in Assessment and Instruction (Virtual Tour) is to use a method developed by Gail Boushey and Joan Moser to provide appropriate practice with reading aloud, to promote speed, accuracy, and proper expression in reading and to help students consolidate sight vocabulary in order to increase decoding automaticity.
Quick Tips
Additional Comments:
- Through explicit instruction and modeling of each reading strategy, students will develop a greater understanding of strategies used by successful readers.
- Under each heading record a definition of the term in student-friendly language. Comprehension: I understand what I read; Accuracy: I can read the words; Fluency: I can read accurately, with expression, and understand what I read; Expand Vocabulary: I know, find, and use interesting words.
- Conference with students during The Daily Five, a framework for literacy independence.
- Encourage students to select "good-fit" books, books that are at their reading level and of interest to them.
- CAFÉ is a formative assessment and should guide small group instruction and help you plan for ongoing instruction.
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