The Café Book Literacy Café Menu C-Comprehension A-Accuracy F-Fluency E-Expanded Vocabulary

1. The Café BookLiteracy Café MenuC-ComprehensionA-Accuracy F-FluencyE-Expanded Vocabulary

2. The Daily Five • reading to self • reading to someone • word work • listening to reading • writing

3. Effective Classroom Distribution • Whole-class • Small-group • Side-by-side instruction

4. Café Menu Conferring Notebook • Café Menu-(Behaviors That Support Reading) • Reading Conference Form • Writing Conference Form • Keeping Track Form • Conferencing Form

5. Literacy Café Menu • Comprehension-I understand what I read • Accuracy-I can read the words • Fluency-I can read smoothly with few errors and I understand what I read. • Expand Vocabulary-I know, find, and use interesting words.

6. Café Conferences • Helps to make the steps to improving as readers. • It is concrete and practical • The student comes to the conference with a goal that is already set and this saves an enormous amount of time. • More time to read with student and individualize instruction to obtain goal.

7. Coaching Toward A TargetProductive, Effective, Teaching and Learning • Seven Elements – Successful Conferences 1. Check Calendar -(If no appointments are schedule then look at Keeping Track Form for children you haven’t meet with for a while.)

8. 2. Prepare for Conference -(what was the child working on between conferences.) 3. Observe Child & Listen to Reading (Teacher goes to Student) -use time to observe what child is doing.

9. 4. Reinforce and Teach - What will we teach this child? -Focus on only one strategy so the student doesn’t become overwhelmed. 5. Practice the Strategy. - Observe him or her practice.

10. 6. Plan - “Does the child need more time to focus on the strategy?” - “Is the student ready to move on to another area?” 7. Encourage - “You’re doing so well, look at the progress you’ve made.”

11. Teaching Each Strategy • Have student write the strategy on a card and post it on the Café Menu. • The students are more likely to use them if they are the ones doing the work. • The student who post the card becomes an expert on that strategy (another teacher within the room).

12. Selecting Books • Students need to be taught how to self-select appropriate books for independent practice. • The purpose of picking a book is like picking the proper pair of shoes for the occasion.

13. Inference • (Kid’s term) Reading Between the Lines • Take the clues and try to figure out what is happening in the statement. Summarizing ■ As we read the story together, we stop to check for understanding, write a sentence about what we read. At the end of the story, go back over sentences, get rid of any unnecessary parts and write it in paragraph form.

14. Expanded Vocabulary • During a read-aloud, stop and talk about the meaning of an unknown word. Once the meaning is clear have students turn to their buddy and each use the word in a sentence. (have students begin to use the word right from the beginning) • Tune in to three or four words from the word collector each day. (While in line for lunch or recess have students create sentences using the word.)