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Literacy CAFÉ Menu Guide

The document outlines a "Literacy CAFÉ Menu" that identifies different skills and strategies for reading comprehension, accuracy, fluency, and expanding vocabulary. The comprehension section includes strategies like checking for understanding, making inferences, and determining an author's purpose. Accuracy strategies involve cross-checking that words look, sound and make sense right. Fluency strategies encourage rereading and adjusting reading rates. Expanding vocabulary recommends finding interesting words and using context clues and word parts to determine meanings.

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Literacy CAFÉ Menu Guide

The document outlines a "Literacy CAFÉ Menu" that identifies different skills and strategies for reading comprehension, accuracy, fluency, and expanding vocabulary. The comprehension section includes strategies like checking for understanding, making inferences, and determining an author's purpose. Accuracy strategies involve cross-checking that words look, sound and make sense right. Fluency strategies encourage rereading and adjusting reading rates. Expanding vocabulary recommends finding interesting words and using context clues and word parts to determine meanings.

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Literacy CAF Menu


Comprehension
I understand what I read.

Accuracy
I can read the words.

- Check for understanding


- Back up and read
- Monitor and fix up
- Meaning Making Motor*
- Getting knowledge reading*
- Reading aloud*
- Retell the story
- Schema Text to Self/ Text/ World
- Visualising*
- Questioning
- Ask questions the text answers*
- Predict; confirm or readjust prediction
- Infer and support with evidence
- Use text features (titles, headings,
captions, graphic features)
- Paraphrasing *
- Summarising text; include sequence of
main events*
- Use main idea and supporting details to
determine importance
- Determine and analyse authors
purpose and support with text
- Recognise literacy elements (genre,
plot, character, setting,
problem/resolution, theme)
- Recognise and explain cause and effect
relationships
- Compare and contrast within and
between text
- Reviewing
* HRLPT

- Cross Checking Do the words look


right? Do they sound right? Do they
make sense?
- Reading Aloud*
- Use the pictures Do the words
and pictures match?
- Use beginning and ending sounds
- Blending sounds; stretch and
reread
- Flip the sound
- Chunk letters and sounds together
- Skip the word, then come back
- Trade/ guess a word that makes
sense

Fluency
I can read accurately with expression
and understand what I read.
- Voracious reading
- Reading aloud*
- Read appropriate level texts that
are a good fit
- Reread text
- Practice common sight words and
high frequency words
- Adjust and apply different reading
rates to match texts
- Use punctuation to enhance
phrasing and prosody (end marks,
commas, etc. )

Expand Vocabulary
I know, find and use interesting
words.
- Voracious reading
- Tune in to interesting words and
use new vocabulary in speaking
and writing*
- Use pictures, illustrations and
diagrams
- Use word parts to determine the
meaning of new words (prefixes,
suffixes, origins, abbreviations
etc.)
- Use prior knowledge and
content to predict and confirm
meaning
- Ask for someone to define the
word for you
- Use dictionaries, thesauruses
and glossaries as a tool.

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