The CAFE Menu
Linked to 3rd Grade Common Core Standards*
Comprehension Expanding
Accuracy Fluency
Vocabulary
Strategies: Strategies: Strategies: Strategies:
Use prior knowledge to connect with text Abundant easy reading Voracious reading Voracious reading
RL.3.4 RL.3.10, RI.3.10 RL.3.10, RI.3.10 RL.3.10, RI.2.10
Make and adjust predictions; use text to Look carefully at letters and words Read appropriate-level texts Tune in to interesting words and
confirm RF.3.3 that are a good fit use new vocabulary in
RL.3.6, RI.3.6 Cross checking… do the pictures RL.3.10, RI.3.10, RF.3.4 speaking and writing
Infer and support with evidence and/or words look right? Do Reread text RL.3.4, L.3.4
RI.3.1 they sound right? Do they RF.3.4 Use prior knowledge and
Make a picture or mental image make sense? Practice common sight words context to predict and
RL.3.7 RF.3.4 and high-frequency words confirm meaning
Monitor and fix up: check for understanding Flip the sound RF.3.3 RL.3.4, RI.3.4, L.3.4
/back up and reread RF.3.3 Adjust and apply different Use pictures, illustrations, and
RF.3.4 Use the pictures… do the words reading rates to match text diagrams
Ask questions throughout the reading and pictures match? RF.3.4 RI.3.7, L.3.4
process RL.3.7, RI.3.7 Use punctuation to enhance Use word parts to determine the
RL.3.1, RI.3.1 Use beginning and ending sounds phrasing and prosody (end meaning of words (prefixes,
Use text features (titles, headings, captions, RF.3.3 marks, commas, etc.) suffixes, origins, abbreviations,
graphic features) Blend sounds; stretch and reread L.3.2 etc.)
RI.3.5 RF.3.3 Read text as the author would RF.3.3, L.3.4
Summarize text; include sequence of main Chunk letters and sounds say it, conveying the Ask someone to define the word
events together meaning or feeling for you
RL.3.5, RI.3.2 RF.3.3 RF.3.4
Use main idea and supporting details to Skip the word, then come back Use dictionaries, thesauruses,
determine importance RF.3.4 and glossaries as tools
RL.3.2, RI.3.8 Trade a word/guess a word that L.3.2
Determine and analyze author’s purpose makes sense
and support with text RF.3.4
RI.3.6 Recognize words at sight
Recognize literacy elements (genre, plot, RF.3.3
character, setting, problem/resolution,
theme)
RL.3.3
Recognize and explain cause-and-effect
relationships
RL.3.3, RI.3.3, RI.3.8
Compare and contrast within and between
text
RL.3.9, RI.3.9
Gail Boushey and Joan Moser ©[Link], 2012. Common Core Additions, Allison Behne
*Not all Common Core Standards are included in the CAFÉ Menu, such as writing, speaking, listening and various other standards.
