- Check for understanding.
- Back up and reread.
- Monitor and fix up.
- 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, use text to confirm.
- Infer and support with evidence.
- Use text features (titles, headings, captions, graphic features).
- Summarize text; include sequence of main events.
- Use main idea and supporting details to determine importance.
- Determine and analyze author’s purpose and support with text.
- Recognize literary elements (genre, plot, character, setting, problem/resolution).
- Recognize and explain cause and effect relationships.
- Compare and contrast within and between text.
- Cross checking… Do the pictures and/or words look right? Does it sound right? Does it make sense?
- Use the picture… Do the words and pictures match?
- Use beginning sounds and ending sounds.
- Blend sounds, stretch and read.
- Flip the sounds.
- Chunk letters and sounds together.
- Skip the word then come back.
- Trade a word / guess a word that makes sense.
- Voracious reading.
- Tune in to interesting words and use new vocabulary in my speaking and writing.
- Use pictures, illustrations, and diagrams.
- Use word parts to determine meaning of words (prefixes, suffixes, origins, abbreviations).
- 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.
This is awesome! I can see how much thought and work you’ve put into this menu. Thanks for sharing it on the #Daily5 chat!
Thanks so much! I was definitely inspired by the interactive menu on The Daily Cafe site, but I wanted the lessons to be immediately usable by our school’s teachers.
Thank you for sharing these resources! Very nicely done! We’re just starting the CAFE in my district…I’m going to tell all of my teacher friends to visit your site! Thanks for your hard work! (love the clipart too!)
WHAT ARE CAFE LESSONS?
Thanks so much for sharing!!! This is perfectly organized with easy to access links to mini-lessons!!
Glad you’ve found it useful! Huzzah! :)