This conference is a testimony to the power of the CAFE Menu and how focused instruction and layering strategies can help our students be powerful, proficient readers.
Though groups vary from year to year, we've found these four strategies carry a lot of valuable weight, so we not only begin with them, we continue to reinforce them throughout the year.
Here's a short mini-lesson to try that helps students learn that the letter "y" at the end of a word makes several sounds. Sometime we hear a long "i" and sometimes we hear a long "e."