The Literacy CAFE
These are the strategies that we will be practicing in class this year!
Comprehension
I understand what I read
Strategies
Check for understanding
Back up and reread
Monitor and fix up
Retell the story
Make connections
Recognize and analyze literary elements
Ask questions throughout the reading process
Create pictures or mental images
Infer and support with evidence (theme, author’s purpose, conclusion, vocabulary)
Predict what will happen; use text to confirm
Determine author’s purpose and support with text
Use main idea and supporting details to determine importance
Summarize text; include sequence of main events
Distinguish between fact and opinion
Awareness
I understand how text is organized and use that to enhance my understanding
Strategies
Use nonfiction text features to locate and understand information
Identify and understand the characteristics of genres
Recognize story structure (problem, rising action, climax, resolution)
Recognize and explain cause-and- effect relationships
Compare and contrast within and between texts
Understand and use figurative language
Follow dialogue
Use graphic organizers to represent my thinking
Recognize points of view
Fluency
I can read accurately, with expression and understand what I read
Strategies
Voracious reading
Choose appropriate-level text
Reread text
Practice common sight words and high frequency words
Adjust and apply different
reading rates to match text
Use punctuation to enhance phrasing and prosody (end marks, commas, etc.)
Cross Checking…do the words look right? Does it sound right? Does it make sense?
Skip the word, then come back
Trade a word/guess a word that makes sense
Expand Vocabulary
I know, find, and use interesting words
Strategies
Voracious Reading
Tune in to interesting words: use new vocabulary in my speaking and writing
Use word parts to infer meaning of words
Use prior knowledge and context clues to predict and confirm meaning
Ask someone to define the word for you
Use a dictionary, thesaurus, and glossary as tools
Understand homographs and homophones
Understand antonyms and synonyms
Comprehension
I understand what I read
Strategies
Check for understanding
Back up and reread
Monitor and fix up
Retell the story
Make connections
Recognize and analyze literary elements
Ask questions throughout the reading process
Create pictures or mental images
Infer and support with evidence (theme, author’s purpose, conclusion, vocabulary)
Predict what will happen; use text to confirm
Determine author’s purpose and support with text
Use main idea and supporting details to determine importance
Summarize text; include sequence of main events
Distinguish between fact and opinion
Awareness
I understand how text is organized and use that to enhance my understanding
Strategies
Use nonfiction text features to locate and understand information
Identify and understand the characteristics of genres
Recognize story structure (problem, rising action, climax, resolution)
Recognize and explain cause-and- effect relationships
Compare and contrast within and between texts
Understand and use figurative language
Follow dialogue
Use graphic organizers to represent my thinking
Recognize points of view
Fluency
I can read accurately, with expression and understand what I read
Strategies
Voracious reading
Choose appropriate-level text
Reread text
Practice common sight words and high frequency words
Adjust and apply different
reading rates to match text
Use punctuation to enhance phrasing and prosody (end marks, commas, etc.)
Cross Checking…do the words look right? Does it sound right? Does it make sense?
Skip the word, then come back
Trade a word/guess a word that makes sense
Expand Vocabulary
I know, find, and use interesting words
Strategies
Voracious Reading
Tune in to interesting words: use new vocabulary in my speaking and writing
Use word parts to infer meaning of words
Use prior knowledge and context clues to predict and confirm meaning
Ask someone to define the word for you
Use a dictionary, thesaurus, and glossary as tools
Understand homographs and homophones
Understand antonyms and synonyms