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3 Entry Ideas for Reader's Response Journals (ARTICLE)
Lori Sabo
I will confess that I haven't been very consistent in keeping a personal Reader's Response Journal, . . . More...

Close Reading Overview (ARTICLE)
Lori Sabo
If you've been hearing about Close Reading lately and wondering what it's all about, here is an introduction. . . . More...

Teaching "Th," "Ch," "Sh" (VIDEO)
Differentiating these three sounds helps students are readers and writers. Joan uses a hand off strategy that helps build community. . . . More...

Infer and Support with Evidence (ARTICLE)
Both the CAFE menu and the Common Core Standards stress the importance of being able to draw inferences from a text and citing evidence from the text to support one's analysis and conclusions. One teacher uses her read-aloud to spark rich conversations. . . . More...

Narrowing the Teaching With Amber (VIDEO)
Young writers have so many things to think about as they get their ideas on paper. You'll enjoy seeing an example of this truth as you watch Joan confer with Amber. . . . More...

A Conversational Lesson with ELL Boys (VIDEO)
In this fast paced review lesson, Joan meets with a group of Kindergarten boys and uses a shared tex . . . More...

Reteaching Prefixes for Spelling, Vocabulary and Decoding (VIDEO)
This group of 6th graders works hard to remember the essence of prefixes, suffixes and root words and how they might use their understanding of prefixes to help them figure out the meaning of words. . . . More...

Conference with an ELL student (VIDEO)
Gail and Heather confer with a student who is just learning English, and discuss how best to support her. . . . More...

Summarize Text with Non-Fiction (VIDEO)
Summarizing helps us comprehend, as well as communicate what we've been reading with others. In this video, Christie has students utilize the skill, which they are familiar with in fiction, to a non-fiction article. . . . More...

The CAFE Menu: Assessing Knowledge (VIDEO)
In this video, Janet and a group of third graders review what they know about the CAFE Menu, from the meaning of each goal, to the strategies and how the students use them. . . . More...

Daily 5 and CAFE-The Launch - Part 1 (ARTICLE)
A Note from Gail and Joan: We are hoping to alleviate the concerns teachers have about how to combine Daily 5 and CAFE simultaneously. We hope it is just in time to help you think through the launch of your school year. . . . More...

Spanish Transitional Menu (DOWNLOAD)
The transitional CAFE menu is now in Spanish to help you support your students who are new to English. . . . More...

Fluency Strategy Group (VIDEO)
Once you've committed to moving from guided leveled groups to strategy focused groups, it can be hard to know how to begin. After determining that a portion of the students need help with fluency and moving beyond robotic reading, Gail and Joan get ready to assist in this second grade class, . . . More...

CAFE Student Book - Resources to Start

Autumn Ipok from Lake Stevens, Washington wrote:

I teach an elementary self-contained class for students with moderate to severe disabilities in the Lake Stevens School District. I have been using CAFE for two years with some of the students in our program and have seen great results! I made a few resources for my students to help them remember their goals, and I thought that other special education (or general education) teachers may be interested. . . . More...

New CAFE Strategies Highlighted
This is the latest edition of the Cafe Menu. We've starred the newest strategies for easy identification. Each of these strategies will have a new ready reference guide and parent pipeline soon. . . . More...

The 2011 Updated CAFE Menu (ARTICLE and DOWNLOAD)
Educational research has always been the starting point behind our work with children. Taking curre . . . More...

Parent Pipeline Emergent CAFE: Listen with Understanding (DOWNLOAD)
When listening to a story, many times children hear the words being read but do not understand them. . . . More...

Q: When you meet with a small group, do you take notes on each child in that group or mainly use that time as an instructional time?
A: When considering small group or conferring time it is easy to think that we d . . . More...

Engaging Advanced Readers with Book Chats (ARTICLE)
by Jen McDonough I get asked a lot by teachers, what do I do with the higher readers in my . . . More...

Multiple Writing Strategy Instruction with a Small Group (VIDEO)
This small group lesson guides children in utilizing various writing strategies. After thinking of . . . More...

Voting on Books
Book talks have always been a great way to get students interested in books. Well, the School Libra . . . More...

Survey Says...
This is the second group of responses to our survey asking what went well with Daily 5™ and CA . . . More...

Survey Says . . .
We were delighted with the 381 of you that responded to our survey asking what went well with . . . More...

Parent Involvement and Parent Partnership, Actions Parents Can Take
There was a time when we had more parent helpers than we knew what to do with, but tha . . . More...

CAFE - NEW Books Added to the CAFE Menu
We are frequently asked for a list of books to go with the strategies, so we've added that support p . . . More...

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