Reviews for The CAFE Book: Engaging All Students in Daily Literary Assessment and Instruction

The average rating for The CAFE Book: Engaging All Students in Daily Literary Assessment and Instruction based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-05-01 00:00:00 John Farrell This book was amazing! It has absolutely revolutionized my reading instruction. This is a very simple method to improve students' reading ability based on specific need-based strategies (ones readers actually use) rather than level. It is very easy to implement and follow, and the amount of data you have with very little effort is astounding! This book would even be good to use in a home school situation because it is highly individualized and explains some of the more technical reading instruction methods, but is easy to understand and follow.

Review # 2 was written on 2010-06-22 00:00:00 Dennis Pikop This book was truly amazing. The book takes the framework from the Daily Five and provides strategies to be used during one-on-one conferences, small group meetings, and even whole-group lessons. There are many samples of conferences within this book that really allow the reader to fully understand how the conferences flow. The details provided give clear understanding, and I love the fact that every item on the "MENU" is located in the appendix for future reference. This book makes it very clear that we,as teachers, should be grouping students by their needs rather than their book level. Strategy groups should focus on a particular skill students are having trouble with and it should not matter if every single student is reading on a different level. I would recommend this book be read after the Daily Five. The Comprehension Connection strategies can be easily integrated into the Cafe "MENU."