CAFE Menu

Each year we use the Daily 5 CAFE menu to help us develop our reading skills. CAFE is an acronym for Comprehension, Accuracy, Fluency and Expand vocabulary. All of these areas of reading are extremely important and good readers know they need to read regularly to improve their skills.

We have a CAFE Menu in our classroom. At the end of each week we put a strategy card on the menu.

At the beginning of the year this is what our CAFE Menu looks like.

We’ve started the year off with 3 new reading skills that we’re learning about and practising every time we read.

In our first week we were checking for understanding of the texts we were reading.

We made sure we were reading “Good fit books’ in week 2 of practising.

This week we were creating a mental image for the words we were reading in our ‘Good fit books’.