Reading

Term 4, Week 1

CAFE Strategy: Accuracy: Recognise words at sight

This strategy focuses on building your recognition of sight words to help with reading fluency and accuracy. Many of these words are irregular words that do not follow a decoding rule or pattern, so as a reader you will not be able to sound them out. This strategy works on building the store of these words in your mind so you can read them accurately and quickly.

Term 3, Week 9

CAFE Strategy: Fluency: Use punctuation to enhance phrasing and prosody (end marks, commas, etc.)

Our Reading strategy this week focuses on using punctuation to help understand what we are reading and to build fluency. Grouping words together, rather than reading words one at a time, is called phrasing. Using expression while reading, such as moving our voice up and down, is called prosody.

Term 3, Week 8

CAFE Strategy: Accuracy - Skip the word, then come back.

This strategy is about using the context of an unfamiliar word to help you infer its meaning. When you come across an unknown word while reading, skip the word and continue to read the rest of the sentence without it. Once you know what the remainder of the sentence says, you may be able to think of a word that fits into the gap. You can then reread your sentence with this word in the place of the unknown word, to check that the spoken sounds match the written letters, and that the sentence makes sense.

Term 3, Week 7

CAFE Strategy: Comprehension - Summarise text; include sequence of main events

This strategy is about identifying the most important parts of a text and expressing them in a shorter version, so it can be more easily remembered.

Term 3, Week 6

Accuracy: Flip the Sound

This strategy is about using letter sound knowledge to decode words by trying out, or ‘flipping’, the different sounds a letter can make until you can hear a word you recognise and makes sense!

Watch the Teacher video below which explains this strategy and how we can use it!

Then you can click through the slideshow to see how you can use it during Independent Reading time.

There is also a guide for you to read.

Term 3, Week 5

Comprehension: Recognise literary elements (problem and resolution)

The CAFE strategy ‘Recognise literary elements’ helps readers identify common parts of a story that will allow them to better understand what is happening in the story. This week, we are only focusing on two literary elements, which are the problem and resolution.

Term 3, Week 4:

CAFE Focus: Comprehension: Recognise literary elements (characters and setting)

The CAFE strategy ‘Recognise literary elements’ helps readers identify common parts of a story that will allow them to better understand what is happening in the story. This week, we are only focusing on two literary elements, which are the characters and setting.

Term 3, Week 3

CAFE Focus: Expand vocabulary - Use pictures, illustrations and diagrams

Term 3, Week 2

CAFE Focus: Comprehension: Monitor & Fix up