The document provides strategies and skills for good reading in three main areas: decoding, comprehension, and fluency. It suggests techniques for decoding words like chunking sounds, looking at pictures, and rereading words. For comprehension, it recommends monitoring understanding, asking questions, making inferences, and summarizing. Developing fluency involves reading accurately with expression, rereading, and adjusting reading rate based on text. The document also addresses expanding vocabulary through reading, using context clues and word parts, and using reference materials. Finally, it lists behaviors like getting started quickly, staying focused, and selecting appropriately leveled books to support reading.

1. The Literacy Café MenuThe Literacy Café Menu
C.A.F.E.C.A.F.E.

2. What Good Readers DoWhat Good Readers Do
Good Readers use:Good Readers use:
SchemaSchema
VisualizeVisualize
QuestionQuestion
SynthesizeSynthesize
InferInfer
Determine ImportanceDetermine Importance

3. DecodingDecoding
Good Readers DecodeGood Readers Decode
Words by:Words by:
Getting our lips readyGetting our lips ready
ChunkingChunking
Stretchy out wordsStretchy out words
Looking at picturesLooking at pictures
Skipping and coming backSkipping and coming back
to a wordto a word
Try it AGAIN!!!Try it AGAIN!!!

4. ComprehensionComprehension
I Understand What II Understand What I
ReadReadCheck for Understanding.Check for Understanding.
Back up and Read.Back up and Read.
Monitor and Fix It Up.Monitor and Fix It Up.
Retell the Story.Retell the Story.
Use Prior Knowledge.Use Prior Knowledge.
Make a picture or mental image.Make a picture or mental image.
Ask questions throughout the Reading Process.Ask questions throughout the Reading Process.
Predict what will happen, use text to confirm.Predict what will happen, use text to confirm.
Infer and support with evidenceInfer and support with evidence
Use text features (Titles, headings, captions, graphic features)Use text features (Titles, headings, captions, graphic features)
Summarize text, including sequence of main events.Summarize text, including sequence of main events.
Use main idea and supporting details to determine importanceUse main idea and supporting details to determine importance
Determine and analyze author’s purpose and support with details.Determine and analyze author’s purpose and support with details.
Recognize literary elements (genre, plot, character, setting, problem/resolution)Recognize literary elements (genre, plot, character, setting, problem/resolution)
Recognize and explain cause and effect relationships.Recognize and explain cause and effect relationships.
Compare and contrast within and between text.Compare and contrast within and between text.

5. AccuracyAccuracy
I Can Read The WordsI Can Read The Words
Cross Checking… Do the pictures and/or words lookCross Checking… Do the pictures and/or words look
right? Does it sound right? Does it make sense?right? Does it sound right? Does it make sense?
Use the picture… Do the words and pictures match?Use the picture… Do the words and pictures match?
Use the beginning sounds and ending soundsUse the beginning sounds and ending sounds
Blend sounds, stretch, and readBlend sounds, stretch, and read
Flip the soundsFlip the sounds
Chunk letters and sounds togetherChunk letters and sounds together
Skip the word and come back to itSkip the word and come back to it
Trade a word/guess a word that makes senseTrade a word/guess a word that makes sense

6. FluencyFluency
I Can Read Accurately, With Expression andI Can Read Accurately, With Expression and
understand What I Readunderstand What I Read
Voracious ReadingVoracious Reading
Read appropriate level text that are aRead appropriate level text that are a
“Good Fit”“Good Fit”
Reread TextReread Text
Practice Common Sight WordsPractice Common Sight Words
Adjust and apply different reading rates toAdjust and apply different reading rates to
match textmatch text
Use punctuation to enhance phrasing andUse punctuation to enhance phrasing and
prosody (end marks, commas, etc.)prosody (end marks, commas, etc.)

7. EXPANDEXPAND
VOCABULARYVOCABULARY
I Know, Find, And Use Interesting WordsI Know, Find, And Use Interesting Words
Voracious ReadingVoracious Reading
Tune in to interesting words, and use new vocabulary inTune in to interesting words, and use new vocabulary in
my speaking and writingmy speaking and writing
Use pictures, illustrations, and diagramsUse pictures, illustrations, and diagrams
Use word parts to determine meaning of words ( prefixes,Use word parts to determine meaning of words ( prefixes,
suffixes, origins, abbreviations).suffixes, origins, abbreviations).
Use prior knowledge and context to predict and confirmUse prior knowledge and context to predict and confirm
meaningmeaning
Ask someone to define the word for you.Ask someone to define the word for you.
Use dictionaries, thesauruses and glossaries as tools.Use dictionaries, thesauruses and glossaries as tools.

8. Behaviors That Support ReadingBehaviors That Support Reading
Get Started Right AwayGet Started Right Away
Stay In One PlaceStay In One Place
Work QuietlyWork Quietly
Read The Whole TimeRead The Whole Time
Increase StaminaIncrease Stamina
Select and Read, “Good Fit Book”Select and Read, “Good Fit Book”