USING THE CAFÉ MENU to Support Balanced LiteracyDyer-Kelly Elementary, SJUSD

Staff DevelopmentFebruary 17, 2011

Daily Five

A student-driven management structure designed to fully engage students in activities that support literacy~ reading and writing

Creates routines and procedures that foster independent literacy routines that become habit

The Daily 5 TasksCreating a Sense of Urgency

Read to SelfThe best way to become a better reader is to practice each day with “Good Fit”books that you have selected yourself. It’s Fun!

Work on WritingJust like reading the best way to become a better writer is to write each day.It’s Fun!

Read to SomeonePartner reading provides opportunities to practice strategies, improve fluency,check for understanding, and hear your own voice while sharing in the learningcommunity.

Word WorkExpanded vocabulary leads to greater fluency in reading, therefore increasingcomprehension. Becoming more proficient as a speller leads to writing fluencyand the ability to get your ideas down on paper.

Listen to ReadingJust Hearing fluent and expressive reading of good literature expands yourvocabulary; helps build your stamina and will make you a better reader.

Boushey & Moser © The 2 Sisters

10 Steps to Teaching and Learning Independence

1. Identify what is to be taught

2. Setting Purpose – Sense of Urgency

3. Brainstorm behaviors desired using an I chart

4. Model most desirable behaviors

5. Model least desirable behaviors then desirable

6. Place students around the room

7. Everyone practice and build stamina (3 minutes)

8. Stay Out of the Way

9. Quiet Signal – Come back to Group

10.Group Check In – “How Did You Do?”

Daily 5 Key Vocabulary

I-Charts - What students/teacher are doing Anchor Charts – What Good Reading/Writing “Looks” Like –it “anchors”

their learning Launching - Training them on what to do –

management systemStamina - Building Independency

Accelerate Student Learning

The literacy tasks alone are not enough… CAFE is a guide and system to focus our

instruction,help students set reading and behavior goals,monitor their progress—

CAFÉ ComprehensionAccuracyFluencyExpand Vocabulary

4 components set up across the top As a strategy is introduced it is put up on

a sentence strip under the category by a child

Children put sticky notes under strategy they are working on

The CAFÉ Board

Why CAFÉ? Guide for instruction CAFÉ board is a visual aid to help students Collection of strategies the learner can

access to apply reading strategies during each reading experience along the Gradual Release of Responsibility

(with or without the teacher) Accountability: “You now know X. Let’s practice it… …..Now use it!...... ALL the

time!!!”

Shared Lesson Identify what is to be taught/retaught

whole class, and share the~ “secret to success” with the strategy

*** See Ready Reference Forms Teach the strategy. Students practice with partners. Select a student to write and illustrate the

CAFÉ Menu strategy card (the first time it is taught)

Students add the new strategy to their personal menu (depending on the grade level)

Parts of the Pensieve

Keeping track formThis is a simple grid with each

child’s name on it. Not everyone will be seen as

often.Strategy groups (for us Guided

Reading) formThis form is used to plan lessons

for children with similar goals.

Pensieve Part 2

Cafe Menu Reading Conference Form Writing Conference form

Touch points are used as a way of documenting progress.

A fast way to record a child’s progress toward their goal, is a point system.

Individual Conferences 1. Assess individual students. 2. Discuss findings with students. 3. Set goal and identify strategies with

students. 4. Student declares goals on menu and in

notebook. 5. Teacher fills out individual Reading

Conference form. 6. Teacher fills out Strategy Group

(Guided Reading for us) form. 7. Instruction.

Assessment/Conferences

Meet one-on-one with students, test using running records or DRA

Talk to students using the language of the menu

Set goals and identify areas of need“One of the areas I am

going to help you with to become a better reader this year is…”

CAFÉ Considerations

CAFÉ menu to guide instruction but student behaviors are the key

Grading – touch points with daily small group and individual:

1-below, 2-approaching, 3-meeting, 4-exceeding

When do you move on to a new strategy? After 4-5 opportunities with 3’s and 4’s as touch points.

Determine growth with success overtime

More Considerations

Any assessment is only as good as the action that arises from it.

Fair is not always equal! Plan Whole Group Instruction from formative assessments. Continually connect new strategies to strategies already

on the CAFÉ Menu board.

“Focus on this child… …this moment.”

Fishbowl Lesson Resources:

http://www.sanjuan.edu/webpages/gguthrie

Balanced Literacy » Teachers' D5 Share and Swap Stop

Balanced Literacy » Oral Language Development

Balanced Literacy » Shared Reading Balanced Literacy » Guided Reading

Credits:

The CAFÉ Book by The Sisters Website:

http://web.me.com/varkgirl/2nd_Grade/CAFE.html

PowerPoints: • The Daily 5: Work Smarter, Not

Harder • Daily 5 and CAFÉ workshops.ppt

• thecafebook