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USING THE CAFÉ MENU to Support Balanced Literacy

USING THE CAFÉ MENU to Support Balanced Literacy · CAFE is a guide and system to focus our instruction, help students set reading and behavior goals, monitor their progress

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USING THE CAFÉ MENU to Support Balanced Literacy

A student-driven management structure designed to fully engage students in activities that support literacy~ reading and writing

Creates routines and procedures that foster independent literacy routines that become habit

Read to Self The best way to become a better reader is to practice each day with “Good Fit” books that you have selected yourself. It’s Fun! Work on Writing Just like reading the best way to become a better writer is to write each day. It’s Fun! Read to Someone Partner reading provides opportunities to practice strategies, improve fluency, check for understanding, and hear your own voice while sharing in the learning community. Word Work Expanded vocabulary leads to greater fluency in reading, therefore increasing comprehension. Becoming more proficient as a speller leads to writing fluency and the ability to get your ideas down on paper. Listen to Reading Just Hearing fluent and expressive reading of good literature expands your vocabulary; helps build your stamina and will make you a better reader. Boushey & Moser © The 2 Sisters

1. Identify what is to be taught

2. Setting Purpose – Sense of Urgency

3. Brainstorm behaviors desired using an I chart

4. Model most desirable behaviors

5. Model least desirable behaviors then desirable

6. Place students around the room

7. Everyone practice and build stamina (3 minutes)

8. Stay Out of the Way

9. Quiet Signal – Come back to Group

10.Group Check In – “How Did You Do?”

I-Charts - What students/teacher are doing

(I will..)

Anchor Charts – What Good

Reading/Writing “Looks” Like –it “anchors” their learning

Launching - Training them on what to do – management system

Stamina - Building Independency

The literacy tasks alone are not enough… CAFE is a guide and system to focus our instruction, help students set reading and behavior goals, monitor their progress—

CAFÉ Comprehension Accuracy Fluency Expand Vocabulary

4 components set up across the top

As a strategy is introduced it is put up on a sentence strip under the category by a child

Children put sticky notes under strategy they are working on

Guide for instruction

CAFÉ board is a visual aid to help students

Collection of strategies the learner can access to apply reading strategies during each reading experience along the Gradual Release of Responsibility

(with or without the teacher)

Accountability:

“You now know X. Let’s practice it…

…..Now use it!...... ALL the time!!!”

Identify what is to be taught/re-taught whole class, and share the~

“secret to success” with the strategy Teach the strategy. Students practice with partners. Select a student to write and illustrate the

CAFÉ Menu strategy card (the first time it is taught)

Students add the new strategy to their personal menu (depending on the grade level)

Keeping track form

This is a simple grid with each child’s name on it.

Not everyone will be seen as often.

Strategy groups form(or Guided Reading) This form is used to plan lessons for children with similar goals.

Cafe Menu

Reading Conference Form

Writing Conference form

Touch points are used as a way of documenting progress.

A fast way to record a child’s progress toward their goal, is a point system.

1. Assess individual students.

2. Discuss findings with students.

3. Set goal and identify strategies with students.

4. Student declares goals on menu and in notebook.

5. Teacher fills out individual Reading Conference form.

6. Teacher fills out Strategy Group form.

7. Instruction.

Meet one-on-one with students, test using running records or DRA

Talk to students using the language of the menu

Set goals and identify areas of need

“One of the areas I am going to help you with to become a better reader this year is…”

CAFÉ menu to guide instruction but student behaviors are the key

Grading – touch points with daily small group and individual:

1-below, 2-approaching, 3-meeting, 4-exceeding

When do you move on to a new strategy? After 4-5 opportunities with 3’s and 4’s as touch points.

Determine growth with success overtime

Any assessment is only as good as the action that arises from it.

Fair is not always equal! Plan Whole Group Instruction from formative

assessments. Continually connect new strategies to strategies

already on the CAFÉ Menu board.

“Focus on this child… …this moment.”

http://www.sanjuan.edu/webpages/gguthrie

Balanced Literacy » Teachers' D5 Share and Swap Stop

Balanced Literacy » Oral Language Development

Balanced Literacy » Shared Reading

Balanced Literacy » Guided Reading

The CAFÉ Book by The Sisters

Website:

PowerPoints:

• The Daily 5: Work Smarter, Not Harder

• Daily 5 and CAFÉ workshops.ppt

• thecafebook