The Literacy CAFE™ System helps students understand and master
the four key components of successful reading:
Comprehension, Accuracy, Fluency, and Expanding Vocabulary.
How does it work?
The CAFE Menu breaks each component—comprehension, accuracy, fluency, and expanding vocabulary—into significant strategies that support each goal. Posted on the classroom wall and built throughout the year, it serves as a visual reminder of whole-class instruction as well as individual student goals.
Quoted from: https://www.thedailycafe.com/cafe
As part of our literacy program this year, we are using the CAFE menu as a framework for instruction. Reading strategies may be taught whole class, in small groups or to individual students depending on the observed need of the class. The developers of the Literacy CAFE System provide “Ready Reference Forms” to assist teachers developing instructional strategies and lessons and they provide information for parents in how to support their children with these specific strategies as well.
Ask Questions Throughout the Reading Process
Compare and Contrast Within and Between Text
Determine and Analyze Author’s Purpose and Support With Text
Infer and Support with Evidence
Make a Picture or Mental Image
Predict What Will Happen Next Use Text to Confirm
Recognize and Explain Cause and Effect Relationship
Summarize Text: Include Sequence of Main Events
Use Main Idea and Supporting Details to Determine Importance
Use Prior Knowledge to Connect with Text
Use Text Features (Titles, Headings, Captions, Graphic Features)
Blend Sounds; Stretch and Reread
Chunk Letters and Sounds Together
Use Beginning and Ending Sounds
Adjust and Apply Different Reading Rates to Match Text
Practice Common Sight Words and High-Frequency Words
Read Appropriate-Level Texts That Are a Good Fit
Use Punctuation to Enhance Phrasing and Prosody
Ask Someone to Define the Word For You
Use Dictionaries, Thesauruses and Glossaries as Tools
Use Pictures, Illustrations and Diagrams
Use Prior Knowledge and Context to Predict and Confirm Meaning