Ready Reference Guides

One-page documents that will help you remember the key details of the CAFE Menu strategies you want to teach. These details include strategy definition, why children need the strategy, secret to success, how we teach it, and troubleshooting. Available in both English and Spanish.

English
Spanish Translation
French Translation
Comprehension
Set purpose for reading
Use prior knowledge to predict and connect with text
Check for understanding; monitor and self-correct
Back up and reread
Make and adjust mental images; use text to confirm
Ask questions throughout the reading process
Make and adjust predictions; use text to confirm
Infer and support with evidence
Recognize literary elements (genre, plot, character, setting, theme, problem/resolution)
Retell; include sequence of main events
Summarize text; include important details
Use main ideas and supporting details to determine importance
Use text features to learn important information (titles, headings, captions, graphic features)
Analyze how visual elements integrate and contribute to the meaning of text
Determine and analyze author's purpose and support with text
Recognize and explain cause-and-effect relationships
Compare and contrast within and between text
Read voraciously (C)
Accuracy
Look carefully at letters and words
Listen carefully to sounds
Say the word slowly
Look for word parts
Map it
Try a different sound
Use meaning and context to confirm
Read voraciously (A)
Fluency
Read texts that are a good fit
Use punctuation to enhance phrasing and prosody
Adjust and apply different reading rates to match text
Reread text
Read voraciously (F)
Expand Vocabulary
Tune in to interesting words
Use prior knowledge and context clues
Use pictures, illustrations, and diagrams
Use word parts
Apply understanding of figurative language
Use reference tools such as dictionary, thesauruses, and glossaries
Ask someone to define the word for you
Read voraciously (E)

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