During reading class each day our third and fourth grade students will:
1. Have regular practice with complex text and its academic vocabulary 2. Build knowledge through content-rich nonfiction and informational text 3. Complete reading and writing assignments grounded in evidence from text
This will be achieved in collaboration with our CAFE strategy lessons and Daily 5 literacy tasks.
Daily 5
What is Daily 5 ? Ask your child! : ) Ask your child what the following codes for our Daily 5 mean: R2S R2S1 W.W. W.O.W. V Ask your child to tell you how many minutes of STAMINA we have worked up to for R2S and R2S1!
Daily 5 is a series of literacy tasks which students which students will eventually be required to complete daily while I meet with small groups or confer with individual students. Daily 5 is more than a management system and a curriculum framework – it is a structure that will help students develop the daily habits of reading and writing that will lead to a lifetime of independent literacy.
CAFE
C - Comprehension I understand what I am reading. A - Accuracy I can read letters, sounds, and words. F - Fluency I can read smoothly, accurately, and with expression. E - Expaning Vocabulary I learn and use new and intersting words.
CAFE is an acronym for Comprehension, Accuracy, Fluency, and Expanding Vocabulary. This reading system includes goal-setting with students in individual conferences, posting of goals on a whole-class board, developing small group instruction based on flexible clusters of students with similar goals, and targeting whole-class instruction based on emerging student needs and fine tuning one on one conferring.
All students should be reading for at least 30 minutes every night.