CAFE Headings & Reading Strategy Cards

I decided I'll be implement the Daily 5 into my classroom this year.  I knew I wanted to read the CAFE book as well to get ideas and inspiration since it is also by da sistas The Sisters.

I wish I didn't wait so long to read it because this book has put it all together for me! If you haven't read it, start now. Seriously. My mind is so full of ideas, excitement, and all the missing pieces are filled. At first I wasn't sure about the mini lessons of the Daily 5 and how my small groups are going to look exactly but this book fills in all those gaps! Every time I look at the book now I think of like heavenly music coming out of it because it really answers all my questions!

So enough of my excitement, I'll be implementing the CAFE Menu that will look something like this but totally different headings/colors/everything:

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Before I read the book I had no idea what that entire bulletin board meant and it looks intimidating. Its not, it actually makes a lot of sense. I love how the reading strategies you teach stay up all year and students focus on the ones that would benefit them. This is differentiation at its best!

Being the OCD/matchy-matchy teacher I am, I created a heading and reading strategy cards for my CAFE board that match my classroom decor.

I also made reading strategy cards from the CAFE menu with some pictures. They are color coordinated with the C, A, F, and E colors. So C and E are unfortunately both blue.

Here are a few..

I know it is more meaningful to write the card with your class but I just couldn't do it. They have pictures on my strategy cards so that will help. I plan on touching the card, referring to it often, and have it up next to me when I introduce the strategy. I think it will all be okay if I don't hand write the strategy card with my kiddos.

If you'd like your own copy of these headers and reading strategy cards you can download them for FREE in my Teacher's Notebook store here.

I have a Teachers Pay Teachers store but I won't be using it and I can't figure out how to delete it. I'll be strictly using Teacher's notebook so please follow me  there. I'll posting all my freebies in my store soon for you to also check out. :)

p.s.
My boyfriend made chocolate cupcakes last night and we didn't have any frosting. So I created some peanut butter frosting from scratch using this super easy recipe found here. They turned out to be DELICIOUS, as in can't stop eating, they are most gone delicious.

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I'd highly recommend downloading the CAFE header/strategy cards then make these ASAP.