CAFE Strategies
1. Check for understanding: teaches children to stop frequently and check, or monitor, whether they understand what they are reading. This typically is a quick summary of what they've read, starting with "who" and "what."
2. Back up and reread: when meaning breaks down, going back and rereading again to understand the meaning of the selection.
3. Monitor and fix up: Readers stop and think if what they are reading makes sense, whether they understand what is happening in the story, or what the selection is about. If meaning breaks down, the reader has strategies to go back and fix it.
4. Retell the story: An accounting of a story's key points, told in sequence. A retelling usually includes characters, setting, problems, and solution of the main idea of the text.
5. Using prior knowledge to connect with text: Readers bring information from what they already know or what they have read before about a topic and connect it with what they are reading to increase their understanding of the text and to remember what they have read.
6. Make a picture or mental image: When students listen to or read text, they can create pictures in their mind or make a mind movie.
7. Ask questions throughout the reading process: Readers are actively involved in reading by asking themselves questions before, during, and after reading a selection, thus increasing their comprehension of the material.
8. Predict what will happen, use text to confirm: To predict, readers tell what they think will happen in the story; to confirm, readers find out whether their predictions were true, partially true, or way off.
9. Infer and support with evidence: Readers figure out what the author is saying even though it might not be written down. Using their background knowledge, clues from the text, illustrations, and captions the reader makes meaning of the selection.
10. Use text features (titles, headings, captions, graphic features): Nonfiction text contains common features such as titles, headings, and subheadings, captions, maps, diagrams, charts, and graphs, legends, etc.
11. Summarize text; include sequence or main events: Summarizing is taking selections of text and reducing them to their bare essentials.
12. Use main idea and supporting details to determine importance: Readers understand the most important details of whats being read.
13. Determine and analyze authors purpose and support with text: Identify why the author wrote a text, by giving specific examples from the text to support the reader's inference: deepens understanding for how to read and comprehend the text.
14. Recognize literary elements (genre, plot, theme): Readers identify common elements of a story as they read that include plot, character, setting, and theme. How do these elements help infer what will happen next?
15. Recognize and explain cause-and-effect relationships: Readers understand that in-text events happen (effects), along with the reason why they happen (causes). When students recognize this relationship, comprehension is increased.
16. Compare and contrast within and between text: Readers understand new ideas in text by thinking about how things are alike or different, thus deepening their comprehension.
1. Check for understanding: teaches children to stop frequently and check, or monitor, whether they understand what they are reading. This typically is a quick summary of what they've read, starting with "who" and "what."
2. Back up and reread: when meaning breaks down, going back and rereading again to understand the meaning of the selection.
3. Monitor and fix up: Readers stop and think if what they are reading makes sense, whether they understand what is happening in the story, or what the selection is about. If meaning breaks down, the reader has strategies to go back and fix it.
4. Retell the story: An accounting of a story's key points, told in sequence. A retelling usually includes characters, setting, problems, and solution of the main idea of the text.
5. Using prior knowledge to connect with text: Readers bring information from what they already know or what they have read before about a topic and connect it with what they are reading to increase their understanding of the text and to remember what they have read.
6. Make a picture or mental image: When students listen to or read text, they can create pictures in their mind or make a mind movie.
7. Ask questions throughout the reading process: Readers are actively involved in reading by asking themselves questions before, during, and after reading a selection, thus increasing their comprehension of the material.
8. Predict what will happen, use text to confirm: To predict, readers tell what they think will happen in the story; to confirm, readers find out whether their predictions were true, partially true, or way off.
9. Infer and support with evidence: Readers figure out what the author is saying even though it might not be written down. Using their background knowledge, clues from the text, illustrations, and captions the reader makes meaning of the selection.
10. Use text features (titles, headings, captions, graphic features): Nonfiction text contains common features such as titles, headings, and subheadings, captions, maps, diagrams, charts, and graphs, legends, etc.
11. Summarize text; include sequence or main events: Summarizing is taking selections of text and reducing them to their bare essentials.
12. Use main idea and supporting details to determine importance: Readers understand the most important details of whats being read.
13. Determine and analyze authors purpose and support with text: Identify why the author wrote a text, by giving specific examples from the text to support the reader's inference: deepens understanding for how to read and comprehend the text.
14. Recognize literary elements (genre, plot, theme): Readers identify common elements of a story as they read that include plot, character, setting, and theme. How do these elements help infer what will happen next?
15. Recognize and explain cause-and-effect relationships: Readers understand that in-text events happen (effects), along with the reason why they happen (causes). When students recognize this relationship, comprehension is increased.
16. Compare and contrast within and between text: Readers understand new ideas in text by thinking about how things are alike or different, thus deepening their comprehension.