The document outlines a "Literacy CAFÉ Menu" that identifies different skills and strategies for reading comprehension, accuracy, fluency, and expanding vocabulary. The comprehension section includes strategies like checking for understanding, making inferences, and determining an author's purpose. Accuracy strategies involve cross-checking that words look, sound and make sense right. Fluency strategies encourage rereading and adjusting reading rates. Expanding vocabulary recommends finding interesting words and using context clues and word parts to determine meanings.
The document outlines a "Literacy CAFÉ Menu" that identifies different skills and strategies for reading comprehension, accuracy, fluency, and expanding vocabulary. The comprehension section includes strategies like checking for understanding, making inferences, and determining an author's purpose. Accuracy strategies involve cross-checking that words look, sound and make sense right. Fluency strategies encourage rereading and adjusting reading rates. Expanding vocabulary recommends finding interesting words and using context clues and word parts to determine meanings.
The document outlines a "Literacy CAFÉ Menu" that identifies different skills and strategies for reading comprehension, accuracy, fluency, and expanding vocabulary. The comprehension section includes strategies like checking for understanding, making inferences, and determining an author's purpose. Accuracy strategies involve cross-checking that words look, sound and make sense right. Fluency strategies encourage rereading and adjusting reading rates. Expanding vocabulary recommends finding interesting words and using context clues and word parts to determine meanings.
The document outlines a "Literacy CAFÉ Menu" that identifies different skills and strategies for reading comprehension, accuracy, fluency, and expanding vocabulary. The comprehension section includes strategies like checking for understanding, making inferences, and determining an author's purpose. Accuracy strategies involve cross-checking that words look, sound and make sense right. Fluency strategies encourage rereading and adjusting reading rates. Expanding vocabulary recommends finding interesting words and using context clues and word parts to determine meanings.
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Back
up
and
read
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Monitor
and
fix
up
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Meaning
Making
Motor*
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Getting
knowledge
reading*
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Reading
aloud*
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Retell
the
story
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Schema
Text
to
Self/
Text/
World
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Visualising*
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Questioning
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Ask
questions
the
text
answers*
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Predict;
confirm
or
readjust
prediction
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Infer
and
support
with
evidence
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Use
text
features
(titles,
headings,
captions,
graphic
features)
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Paraphrasing
*
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Summarising
text;
include
sequence
of
main
events*
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Use
main
idea
and
supporting
details
to
determine
importance
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Determine
and
analyse
authors
purpose
and
support
with
text
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Recognise
literacy
elements
(genre,
plot,
character,
setting,
problem/resolution,
theme)
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Recognise
and
explain
cause
and
effect
relationships
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Compare
and
contrast
within
and
between
text
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Reviewing
*
HRLPT
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Cross
Checking
Do
the
words
look
right?
Do
they
sound
right?
Do
they
make
sense?
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Reading
Aloud*
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Use
the
pictures
Do
the
words
and
pictures
match?
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Use
beginning
and
ending
sounds
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Blending
sounds;
stretch
and
reread
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Flip
the
sound
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Chunk
letters
and
sounds
together
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Skip
the
word,
then
come
back
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Trade/
guess
a
word
that
makes
sense
Fluency
I
can
read
accurately
with
expression
and
understand
what
I
read.
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Voracious
reading
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Reading
aloud*
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Read
appropriate
level
texts
that
are
a
good
fit
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Reread
text
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Practice
common
sight
words
and
high
frequency
words
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Adjust
and
apply
different
reading
rates
to
match
texts
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Use
punctuation
to
enhance
phrasing
and
prosody
(end
marks,
commas,
etc.
)
Expand
Vocabulary
I
know,
find
and
use
interesting
words.
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Voracious
reading
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Tune
in
to
interesting
words
and
use
new
vocabulary
in
speaking
and
writing*
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Use
pictures,
illustrations
and
diagrams
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Use
word
parts
to
determine
the
meaning
of
new
words
(prefixes,
suffixes,
origins,
abbreviations
etc.)
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Use
prior
knowledge
and
content
to
predict
and
confirm
meaning
-
Ask
for
someone
to
define
the
word
for
you
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Use
dictionaries,
thesauruses
and
glossaries
as
a
tool.
