CAFE

Welcome to the 5th Grade Reading Program! This will be a year filled with many new experiences for your Student. Each day we will be actively engaged in learning using one of the strategies in the above four categories..

Daily 5 is the structure we will use to plan our morning. Children will be busy completing meaningful literacy tasks. Mrs. Riedasch and Mr. Kjentvet combine Listen to Reading and Read to Someone. We also try to read to the class each day so students can hear reading being modeled to them. The choices will be:

• • Read to self

  • Work on writing

  • Word Work

  • Read to Someone

At the beginning of the year, we are focusing on increasing our stamina to work independently during Read to Self. As the year progresses, the other choices will be introduced. While the students are completing their literacy tasks, we will be meeting with small groups and conferencing with individual students. Daily 5 is how we schedule our language block. CAFE is what we study during this time. CAFE is a simple acronym for the four major components of reading. They are:

• • C for Comprehension

  • A for Accuracy

  • F for Fluency

  • E for Expanding Vocabulary

The children will learn reading strategies within each category. These strategies will become "tools" for the children to use to help themselves become better readers and writers. We will monitor the students throughout the year and make sure they are progressing. Middle school will be a challenge for students who do not have a solid foundation in reading. Our goal is to give them strategies found in CAFE that will aid them as they move on to 6th grade and beyond..

CAFE Board in 5th Grade