CAFÉ in the Classroom:
Helping Children Visualize and Attain Goals in Literacy Workshops

One-Day Workshop (Limit: 100 Participants)

Featuring "The Sisters" Gail Boushey and Joan Moser

Appropriate for Grades K-5 Literacy Coaches and Teachers

This event is now SOLD OUT - space remains in the CAFE/DAILY 5 COMBO workshop in Rockland, Maine on October 20th. Click on the link below for details:

http://www.choiceliteracy.com/Fall08workshopMaine.pdf

Fee: $295 (Includes DVD Workshop Kit CAFÉ in the Classroom, a $229 Value, continental breakfast, boxed lunch, snack breaks, and print materials)

Program Description

Teachers know assessing young readers involves more than determining a reading level and moving them onto the next. Yet all too often, assessment systems don't provide much information beyond determining a child's reading level. Gail Boushey and Joan Moser (authors of the book The Daily Five: Fostering Literacy Independence in the Elementary Grades) developed the Daily 5 independent work system and 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. Gail and Joan developed the system based upon Richard Allington's research on the attributes of successful readers, Regie Routman's goal setting strategies in Reading Essentials, and other classroom-based schemes for linking assessment to daily workshop routines. Joan and Gail are still teachers in the public school system. They both use the system daily with students, and have helped dozens of teachers in their school districts implement the program.

The heart of CAFE and Daily 5 are a series of procedures within literacy workshops that enable even the youngest readers to self-monitor their progress, and chart their goals within the larger context of the classroom community. The program includes lessons to help students self monitor, 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.

These interactive workshops will include a brief overview of the research that supports CAFE. Participants will also be provided with the tools they need to get started with CAFE, including recordkeeping forms, sample goals, and tips for organizing teacher notes. Each participant will leave with a resource binder, CD of templates and workshop suggestions, and a DVD with over 80 minutes of individual, small-group, and whole-class examples of CAFE with students who have a range of needs and goals. Gail and Joan will share video clips of the programs in action, so participants can see how individual children work with their teachers to set goals and post them, and then how the teacher uses the information from individual conferences to plan small-group and whole-class instruction.

Schools are paying a fortune for prepackaged programs and kits to help teachers assess the reading needs of their students and help them work well independently. CAFE is not a packaged programs or kit, and nothing needs to be purchased to put it in use - it is a simple series of research-based strategies that any teacher can use to help their students develop independence and monitor their own growth as readers.

Look what participants are saying about the Summer and Fall 2007 CAFE in the Classroom and Daily 5/CAFE Combo Workshops:

Inspiring! The timing has me recharged for the new school year. It puts everything in perspective about assessment driving instruction

Monica Simonson

Awesome - very user friendly and appropriate for the way education is moving today. The interactions when we had specific questions relating to our classrooms and the small size of the workshop was excellent.

Colette Sorensen

This was well-organized, with excellent presenters. I felt more like I was having a casual conversation with colleagues - it was highly energizing and the giveaways were such a nice touch.

Stephanie Bartell

You can preview the introduction to the CAFE DVD below. Please note that video delivered over the web is of a much lower visual quality than that in the package.