FAQ - Do your daily focus lessons connect to each other somehow?
Not necessarily. Our primary students are beginning readers and need instruction on all of the CAFE strategies, so it can be difficult to make the lessons connect. We usually deliver a Comprehension lesson, an Accuracy lesson, and either Fluency or Vocabulary for the third focus lesson. If you are looking for a way to tie the strategies together, you might consider using the same text for all three lessons.
With our intermediate students, we often divide one long lesson into two or three shorter segments. It's much easier to make the lessons connect with our older students since their instruction is typically centered around comprehension strategies. Spanning short bursts of instruction over the course of Daily 5 allows us to remain aware of the brain research - keeping the length of instruction limited to the number of minutes our students are in age.
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