Parent Pipelines: Understanding the CAFÉ Strategies and Tips to Help Your Child at Home
This section of the website will provide you with more insight into the literacy strategies that your child will be learning throughout the school year. The strategies listed below are in no particular order.
To know which strategies we're working on in class, please stay up to date with the "Work in Progress Blog". Students will individually revisit various strategies throughout the year, depending on their learning needs; therefore, it's a good idea to ask your child what strategy he/she is presently working on to become a better reader.
CAFÉ Reading Strategies
Please click on the blue links to access the Parent Pipelines: an explanation of the CAFÉ reading strategies and how you can help at home.
Have a look at the French Menu and the English Menu. Students will be familiar with the French translation for these strategies.
This section of the website will provide you with more insight into the literacy strategies that your child will be learning throughout the school year. The strategies listed below are in no particular order.
To know which strategies we're working on in class, please stay up to date with the "Work in Progress Blog". Students will individually revisit various strategies throughout the year, depending on their learning needs; therefore, it's a good idea to ask your child what strategy he/she is presently working on to become a better reader.
CAFÉ Reading Strategies
Please click on the blue links to access the Parent Pipelines: an explanation of the CAFÉ reading strategies and how you can help at home.
Have a look at the French Menu and the English Menu. Students will be familiar with the French translation for these strategies.
- Making Connections: text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world. Faire des connexions.
- Just-Right Texts: "Good Fit Books". Lire un livre à son niveau.
- Retell Main Events with Correct Sequencing Part 1 and Part 2. Redire les évènements dans l'ordre du texte.
- Retell the Story. Redire l'histoire avec d'autres mots.
- Visualizing. Visualiser.
- Summarizing. Résumer.
- Predicting. Prédire.
- Accessing Prior Knowledge to Confirm Meaning (KWL). Faire appel à ses connaissances antérieures (SVA).
- Asking Questions to Clarify Understanding. Poser des questions.
- Making Inferences. Faire des inférences.
- Use Pictures, Diagrams, Charts, etc., to Make Predictions. Utiliser les images, les diagrammes, et les tableaux pour faire des prédictions.
- Use Text Features. Utiliser les attributs du texte.
- Tune Into Interesting Words. S'intéresser aux mots nouveaux.
- Expanding Vocabulary. Étendre son vocabulaire.
- Practice Common Sight Words. Utiliser les mots communs, faciles.
- Chunking. Découper le mot pour le comprendre.
- Skip the Word, Then Come Back. Sauter le mot, et y revenir.
- Use Reference Materials - Dictionaries, Thesauruses, etc,. Rechercher le mot dans le dictionnaire.
- Voracious Reading. Être un lecteur vorace.
- Identify Main Ideas and Supporting Details. Identifier les idées principales et les détails.
- Use Punctuation to Enhance Phrasing and Fluidity. Utiliser la ponctuation.
- Back Up and Reread. Revenir en arrière et relire une partie du texte.
- Reread the Text. Relire une partie du texte.
- Do the Pictures Match the Words? - Cross Checking. Utiliser les images, est-ce que ça correspond avec le mot ?
- Use the Pictures. Utiliser les images.
- Five Finger Test. Le test des 5 doigts.