Grades K-6

This remarkable book explores the many advantages of using books as bridges between home and school.  It offers teachers strategies for using "touchstone" books to link school literacy conversations and activities with home literacy conversations and activities.

 

In The CAFE Book, Gail Boushey and Joan Moser present a practical, simple way to integrate assessment into daily reading and classroom discussion. The CAFE system, based on research into the habits of proficient readers, is an acronym for Comprehension, Accuracy, Fluency, and Expanding vocabulary.

 

2010
This book contains a wealth of resources, including a thorough explanation of all the sources of information readers use to solve words; examples of what beginning or struggling readers might do and how teachers can respond; ways in which teachers can prompt struggling readers to use skills and strategies effectively; lessons that model how to use the sources of information and how to teach strategies, such as checking and confirming, visualizing, questioning, inferring, and others; ways to obtain ongoing assessment data consistent with strategy teaching; suggestions for organization and management; and practical answers to commonly asked questions from parents.
 

Drama Schemes, Themes & Dreams offers a comprehensive outline of improvisation and interpretation strategies that teachers can incorporate in classroom instruction.  Organized around universal themes that invite students to make connections to texts to each other,the book encourages students to consider their own identities and their place in the world.

 

In this fully revised and updated second edition, Tim Rasinski presents the latest fluency research and shares effective fluency practices that are easy to integrate into a balanced reading program.

Bring new power and purpose to the study of literature with innovative tools and strategies that deepen students' understanding of literary elements and help them apply that understanding to their reading as well as their writing.

Grades 2-6

Published Date: 2009
Grades 3 - 6
Assessing readers involves more than determining a reading level and moving them onto the next. Gail Boushey and Joan Moser developed the CAFE assessment system to help elementary students understand and master different strategies used by successful readers. CAFE is an acronym for Comprehension, Accuracy, Fluency, and Expanding Vocabulary, and the system includes goal-setting with students in individual conferences, posting of goals on a whole-class board, developing small group instruction based on clusters of students with similar goals, and targeting whole-class instruction based on emerging student needs.