CAFE Strategies

Comprehension

Check for Understanding

Back Up and Reread

Retell the Story

Use Prior Knowledge to Connect with Text

Make a Picture or Mental Image

Ask Questions throughout the Reading Process

Predict What will Happen

Infer and Support with Evidence

Use Text Features

Summarize Text; Sequence of Main Events

Use Main Idea and Supporting Details

Recognizing Main Idea

Determine and Analyze Author's Purpose

Recognize Literacy Elements

Recognize and Explain Cause and Effect Relationships

Compare and Contrast within and between Texts 

Accuracy

Cross Checking

Use the Pictures

Use Beginning and Ending Sounds

Blend Sounds; Stretch and Reread

Flip the Sound

Chunk Letters and Sounds Together

Skip the Word, then come back

Trade a Word/Guess a Word that Makes Sense 

Clap the Syllables-Emergent Readers

Fluency

Voracious Reading

Read Good Fit Books (by Barbara A. Smith)

Reread Texts

Practice Common Sight Words and High Frequency Words

Adjust and Apply Different Reading Rates to Match Texts

Use Punctuation to Enhance Phrasing and Prosody 

Expand Vocabulary

Voracious Reading

Tune in to Interesting Words

Use Pictures, Illustrations, and Diagrams

Use Word Parts to Determine the Meaning of Words

Use Prior Knowledge and Context to Predict and Confirm Meaning

Ask Someone to Define the Word for you

Use Dictionaries, Thesauruses, and Glossaries as Tools