CAFE

"The Daily Five establishes the core structural environment and the capacity for independence to meet the needs of our diverse students, the CAFE Book provides the technical expertise necessary for individual students to receive exactly what they need to improve as readers. " (Boushey & Moser, 2009, p. ix) __The CAFE Book __

THE CAFE COMPONENTS: Comprehension  Accuracy  Fluency  Expand Vocabulary

The CAFE system core elements:

1. "The teacher keeps a notebook with a few key record-keeping forms, including a calendar, individual student conference forms, and strategy group planners." 2. "Children meet with the teacher during literacy workshop conferences to be assessed, to receive focused, explicit instruction, to set goals, and then to follow up on progress. The teacher keeps track of progress on the goal sheet in the notebook and schedules the next conference on the calendar, and the child posts his or her goal on the class CAFE chart." 3. "The teacher plans small-group instruction based on clusters of students with similar needs in one of the CAFE categories. These groups are flexible, based on needs rather than reading levels. Often the teacher meets with groups of children who are reading different books at different levels but working on the same goal (such as fluency or expanding vocabulary." (Boushey & Moser, 2009, p. 7) __The CAFE Book __

 Link to the Sisters' CAFE site: [|CAFE] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> (refer to your email for SGCE login access information)