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book was truly amazing, The book takes the framework from the Daily Five and provides strategies to be used during oneonone conferences, small group meetings, and even wholegroup lessons.
There are many samples of conferences within this book that really allow the reader to fully understand how the conferences flow, The details provided give clear understanding, and I love the fact that every item on the "MENU" is located in the appendix for future reference.
This book makes it very clear that we,as teachers, should be grouping students by their needs rather than their book level, Strategy groups should focus on a particular skill students are having trouble with and it should not matter if every single student is reading on a different level.
I would recommend this book be read after the Daily Five, The Comprehension Connection strategies can be easily integrated into the Cafe "MENU, " This book was written by teachers, for teachers, and you feel that the entire time you're reading, I love the real classroom examples, pictures, and stories of how this framework came to be, Will definitely be implementing this in my classroom! If you are an educator, this is a must read book, Boushey and Moser present an easy and practical way to integrate assessment into daily reading and classroom discussion and activities, The CAFE system is research based and the acronym stands for Comprehension, Accuracy, Fluency, and Expand vocabulary,

The CAFE system provides support for teachers as they organize the assessment data so it can be used to truly inform instruction int he classroom.
It also helps with tracking the student's strengths and goals,

In the CAFE system there are no expensive materials required, You don't even have to totally change the approaches that are now being used to utilize the CAFE system, It is built on flexibility and allows teachers to tailor the system to meet the needs of the students in their individual classroom,

This book was provided tome by my school district and I would recommend that all educators in elementary schools take the time to read about the CAFE system.
A musthave accompaniment to The Daily Five book, this book shows the four concepts readers use: comprehension, accuracy, fluency and vocabulary expansion, Teachers will find this book extremely beneficial for teaching reading using books their students WANT to read, Again, I wish I had this book as a resource while training in university! NOTE: a second edition will be released very soon! If you want to improve your teaching in regards to reading, you MUST read this book! Practical advice, strategies and forms for running a good quality studentdriven reading program.
A well written and concise explanantion of how to introduce Daily Five as well as the CAFE approach to literacy teaching, Comprehension, Accuracy, Fluency and Extending VocabularyOffers a brief history of the teaching of reading and writing methods since the's, Authors have taughtyears between them and the writing reflects this, Many teaching momnents are described in detail to allow the reader a realistic view of the implementation of the strategy suggeested, Would recommend to beginning and senior teachers alike,"Common sense" ideas that make you say, "Why didn't I think of that" Though the title talks first about assessment, the book is more about a framework for instruction.
The CAFE Comprehension, Accuracy, Fluency, and Expand Vocabulary framework provides a tool for tightly aligning assessment with specific teaching points that help students begin to use strategies in a strategic way! Rather than naming the strategies i.
e. clarify amp fixup, the reading routines give kids a menu of tools to use flexibly,

I anticipate incorporating many of these ideas into my teaching this year, The authors tie this work to the structures the discuss in The Daily Five, and many would work well in a Reading/Writing Workshop.
This book was amazing! It has absolutely revolutionized my reading instruction, This is a very simple method to improve students' reading ability based on specific needbased strategies ones readers actually use rather than level, It is very easy to implement and follow, and the amount of data you have with very little effort is astounding! This book would even be good to use in a home school situation because it is highly individualized and explains some of the more technical reading instruction methods, but is easy to understand and follow.
I feel similarly as I did with The Daily Five, Seems like really great methods, but the authors used way too many words, For example, one chapter on small groups spent aboutfull pages explaining how they used to do small groups, and that that way was ineffective.
We do not needpages of bad examples! A paragraph or two would have sufficed, Some of it was so overexplained that I felt patronized,
But with that being said, the core of the methods is good and I intend to use it in my future classroom, The appendix is loaded with useful forms, lesson plans, and definitions,
I would love to see this book and Daily Five edited down to their useful parts and put into one book, I've had this book for a few years and finally decided to read it because I'm changing grades and schools, I was resistant to this book because of the corny name and the video of The Sisters and Dailythat I was forced to watch at work.
I couldn't stand them and that hair! Also, talk of this in our staff was geared toward primary, so as ath grade teacher, I was not inclined to read this.
After we received the books and watched the one video, that was all mention of this in our school, Now I see that one teacher actually followed through with it,

I finally read this and found that The Sisters agree with my philosophy of conferring individually with students and also meeting in strategy groups! I was shocked! That isn't what I expected! I like that this is researchbased so that I have a good way to provide evidence for what I am doing when our district is mandating guided reading.
Really, the method of strategy groups makes so much more sense, From now on, my strategy groups will be renamed guided reading!

All in all, I like the ideas and organizational features in this book.
The forms are well thoughtout, There are example lessons in the appendix, which I look forward to trying with myrd graders, I might even read The Dailynow! The CAFE book, is a great resource for teachers, It provides simple and practical ways to integrate assessment into reading and class discussions, CAFE is an acronym for comprehension, accuracy, fluency and expanding vocabulary, I recommend this book to any professional in the primary gases looking to implement a strong reading block of independent readers, This book does not require expensive materials or training, The CAFE nicely aligns with the Daily, This book includes goal setting with students on an individual conference basis, posting goals on a whole classroom board, developing small group instruction with groups of students with similar goals.
I plan to use this book along with Dailyto get the most out of my classrooms reading block and setting my students up to be successful independent readers.
LOVED this book! Can't wait to implement it with the Daily, the explicitness, format, and language are great teaching tools! Really good book that I have recommended to several of my fellow teachers.
As a librarian, I can't say that I will put this book into daily practice, but it will help me to know where to turn when asked how to handle a particular reading problem.
I loved how the author's taught inference without reading a story to inference from, When you read an entire story, you spend so much time in the story that there isn't much time for inferring, "The sisters" way of inferring from short "clips" is fantastic AND something that could be taught every day as the students wait in a line for dismissal, lunch, etc.
For the classroom teacher, the recordkeeping forms are a lifesaver, Well worth the time to read, Great ideas to implement into my second grade classroom! I am sooooooooooooooo happy I read this book before getting back in the classroom, It helped kickstart my anchor lessons with a fresh approah to introducing readers workshop, Unfortunately its more geared towards upper elementary or more academically prepared students that the tiny people I have the pleasure of teaching, It was easy to pick and choose what I could implement in class, I will revisit it midyear and try some of the strategies, .