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Fluency I can read smoothly with few errors and understand what I read!
"To be considered a fluent reader, the person should be able to decode and comprehend at the same time. Fluency is actually the ability to do at least two things at once." Samuels (2006, 2007) When we started teaching, fluency was the current buzzword, was solely about rate, and was pretty much all we paid attention to. As we've become familiar with current research, it's become clear that fluency is about much more than speed. If your students need to work on true fluency, you will find many ways to help them improve through these videos and downloads.
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Scaffolding Back-Up and Reread (VIDEO)
Back-up and Reread is a multi-purpose strategy which supports all areas of reading. This video takes a look at Christie introducing this strategy to her forth grader and some of her scaffolding techniques. . . .
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CAFE - Improving Pace and Fluency (Video)
In this video, Kelly reviews Chloe's reading goal of fluency and the strategy Back Up and Reread. Watch what happens to Chloe's pace when Kelly asks her to go back and reread to make the reading sm . . .
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Parent Pipeline - Reread Text
Reread Text is the fluency strategy most commonly used to increase speed, expression, and comprehension. It is one strategy on the CAFE menu that does not require much clarification because the title . . .
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CAFE - Changes to the CAFE Menu (ARTICLE)
If you've been to our conferences in the past and if you've read the CAFÉ Book, you may have noticed that the CAFÉ Menu published in the book has undergone a slight transformation from e . . .
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Spanish CAFE™ Menu (DOWNLOAD)
Are there any Spanish speaking/reading students in your class? Do you teach Spanish immersion, or work with students who speak Spanish? Would it be helpful to have a CAFE™ menu written in Span . . .
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CAFE™ Menu for Emergent Readers (DOWNLOAD)
This Menu would be used before the CAFE™ Menu. It was designed for our most emergent readers who need to know how to hold a book, or that a book is read from left to right, or that the scr . . .
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Adding Strategy Cards to the CAFE™ Menu
Our system for posting the reading strategies we've taught our students has evolved over the years. Looking back, it represents a continuum of our own learning regarding strategies and best practices . . .
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The Daily 5™ Linear Graphic (DOWNLOAD)
On page 14 of our book, The Daily 5™, there is a circular graphic of how we originally visualized this structure. Then our friend, Lynn Senecal from the Quebec school system, showed us the line . . .
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Literacy CAFE™ Menu (PHOTO)
Thousands of you have asked to see a photo of The CAFE™ Menu in our Classroom. Here is a picture of Joan's CAFE™ Menu taken in early November of last year. The CAFE™ starts with . . .
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The Literacy CAFE™ Menu (DOWNLOAD)
CAFE™ is an acronym for Comprehension, Accuracy, Fluency and Expanding Vocabulary, four research-based components critical to reading. We developed it as a guide and system to focus our instruc . . .
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