CAFE+Strategies

Comprehension: I understand what I read

1. Ask…Does this make sense? 2. Remember what was read 3. Monitor meaning and “Check for Understanding” 4. Summarize the text 5. Retell the story 6. Use text features to help understand text 7. Ask myself…Do I have any background knowledge about the book? 8. Make connections to what was read 9. Predict what will happen, use the text to confirm 10. Ask questions while reading 11. Make a picture or mental image 12. Infer using prior knowledge and the text, support with evidence 13. Determine importance using theme, main ideas and support with evidence 14. Recognize and explain cause and effect relationships 15. Recognize literary devices (simile, personification, humor, metaphor, idiom, imagery, exaggeration and dialogue) explain how they make the story more interesting <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">16. Determine authors purpose and support with text <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">17. Analyze and draw conclusions based on evidence from the text <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">18. Use monitoring strategies of reread, look forward and word recognition to gain meaning

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Accuracy: I can read the words

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">19. Back up and reread <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">20. Cross Checking…Does this make sense, do the letters match? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">21. Blend sounds… stretch and read <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">22. Chunk letters together <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">23. Use beginning sounds <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">24. Use the picture…Do the words and pictures match? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">25. Skip the word then come back <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">26. Trade a word <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">27. Sound it out

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Fluency: I can read smoothly with few errors and understand what I read

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">28. Reread to make it smooth <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">29. Read common sight words with automaticity <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">30. Adjust reading pacing and rate to match purpose and difficulty <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">31. Read accurately with expression, pacing and phrasing to enhance <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">comprehension <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">32. I read you read the same words <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">33. Practice reading plays, poems or choral reading <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">34. Apply different reading rates to match text

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Expand Vocabulary: I know, find and use interesting words

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">35. Tune in to interesting words and use new vocabulary in my reading and writing <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">36. Reread to clarify meaning of word <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">37. Read on <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">38. Adjust reading rate <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">39. Use prior knowledge and context to predict and confirm meaning <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">40. Use pictures, illustrations and diagrams <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">41. Use prefixes, suffixes, abbreviations to determine meaning of word <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">42. Use word origins and knowledge of affixes and roots <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">43. Ask someone to define the word for you <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">44. Use dictionaries, thesauruses, and glossaries <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">45. Understand and apply content vocabulary critical to the meaning of the text