What is Daily 5 and the CAFÉ board?
Daily 5 is a literacy framework that instills behaviors of independence, creates a classroom of highly engaged readers, writers, and learners, and provides teachers with the time and structure to meet diverse student needs. Because it holds no curricular content, it can be used to meet any school, district, state, or national standards.
The five components of Daily 5: Read to Self, Read to Someone, Work on Writing, Word Work, and Listen to Reading.
CAFE is the literacy system that compliments the Daily 5 structure. Posted on the classroom wall and built throughout the year, the CAFE Menu serves as a visual reminder of whole-class instruction as well as individual student goals. By focusing on the four key components of successful reading: Comprehension, Accuracy, Fluency, and Expanding Vocabulary, and providing strategies to support each goal, the CAFE System is an efficient and effective way to assess, instruct, and monitor student progress.
What is guided reading?
Guided reading is a instructional approach that involves a teacher working with a small group of readers. During the lesson, the teacher provides a text that students can read with support, coaching the learners as they use problem-solving strategies to read the text. The goal is independent reading.
What are some features of guided reading?
• The teacher meets with groups of 3-6 students.
• The groups are flexible and fluid; they change based on ongoing assessment.
• Children are grouped according to reading level.
• During the lesson, the students read a text that is slightly harder than what they can read without support.
• The teacher coaches’ students as they read.
What does a guided reading lesson look like?
It varies based on reading level, but here is a general structure for a 15-20-minute lesson.
• Students re-read familiar texts for several minutes. This is a great way to promote fluency!
• For just a minute or so, the students practice previously learned sight words.
• The teacher introduces the text.
• The students read the text out loud or silently while the teacher coaches. They do not take turns reading; instead, each child reads the text in its entirety.
• The teacher leads a discussion of the text.
• The teacher makes 1-2 teaching points.
• If time allows, students do a few minutes of word work or guided writing.
Daily 5 is a literacy framework that instills behaviors of independence, creates a classroom of highly engaged readers, writers, and learners, and provides teachers with the time and structure to meet diverse student needs. Because it holds no curricular content, it can be used to meet any school, district, state, or national standards.
The five components of Daily 5: Read to Self, Read to Someone, Work on Writing, Word Work, and Listen to Reading.
CAFE is the literacy system that compliments the Daily 5 structure. Posted on the classroom wall and built throughout the year, the CAFE Menu serves as a visual reminder of whole-class instruction as well as individual student goals. By focusing on the four key components of successful reading: Comprehension, Accuracy, Fluency, and Expanding Vocabulary, and providing strategies to support each goal, the CAFE System is an efficient and effective way to assess, instruct, and monitor student progress.
What is guided reading?
Guided reading is a instructional approach that involves a teacher working with a small group of readers. During the lesson, the teacher provides a text that students can read with support, coaching the learners as they use problem-solving strategies to read the text. The goal is independent reading.
What are some features of guided reading?
• The teacher meets with groups of 3-6 students.
• The groups are flexible and fluid; they change based on ongoing assessment.
• Children are grouped according to reading level.
• During the lesson, the students read a text that is slightly harder than what they can read without support.
• The teacher coaches’ students as they read.
What does a guided reading lesson look like?
It varies based on reading level, but here is a general structure for a 15-20-minute lesson.
• Students re-read familiar texts for several minutes. This is a great way to promote fluency!
• For just a minute or so, the students practice previously learned sight words.
• The teacher introduces the text.
• The students read the text out loud or silently while the teacher coaches. They do not take turns reading; instead, each child reads the text in its entirety.
• The teacher leads a discussion of the text.
• The teacher makes 1-2 teaching points.
• If time allows, students do a few minutes of word work or guided writing.