Don't you just L.O.V.E. Freebies?

So I sat down this evening to send out a reminder about my 100 follower celebration giveaway and to my surprise I now have 199 followers!  I am AMAZED (and thrilled) about all the awesome teachers and comments I have encountered on this little place in cyberspace SO I thought what better way to celebrate than to send out some freebies.  So sit back and get ready to download!  I was introduced to the Daily 5 and CAFE' books last summer by my teacher friends.  I took them with me on my vacation to St. Thomas last year and enjoyed every page as I finished both books listening to the waves of the carribbean ocean.  I came back so excited and couldn't wait to implement my Daily 5 routine and put up my CAFE board.  Here is what my CAFE board looked like:

After I put up my cafe board, my teacher partners started talking about switching the letters around in CAFE to FACE and introduce these strategies as part of "The FACE of a reader".  I really liked this idea and thought my first graders would relate a lot better to this analogy ~ so I changed my board to look like this:

As you all know, I have a camping theme in my room (and very partial to polka dots) so I created a bunch of CAFE (or FACE) headers for my board before I finally chose my favorite to display.  I printed out the headers on paper then glued them to polka dotted scrapbook paper and laminated them. 

I then typed up ALL the strategies that go with each header and cut out, laminated and would place on my board as I taught each strategy.  (I know this goes against the sisters a little - but it was my first year teaching first grade and couldn't imagine these little guys writing all these strategies out on sentence strips.)  I surrounded each strategy with a border the same color as my header section.  For example:  All fluency strategies are outlined in blue, all accuracy strategies are outlined in orange, etc.  This helped easily locate and organize my strategy cards.  I only wish I had a picture of my board AFTER my strategies were up, but no such luck.  You will find a variety of header cards below (click on the pictures to download) and then strategy cards for each header.

 

Comprehension Strategy Cards

Accuracy Strategy Cards

Fluency Strategy Cards

Expanding Knowledge Strategy Cards

I hope you find these useful.  I am so thankful to each and everyone of my followers.  I don't feel like I have much to offer but love teaching, love sharing and love kids.  I hope to have much more as the new school year begins. 

OH ~ and don't forget that tomorrow is the last day you can enter my giveaway to win any one item from Mrs. Will's Kindergarten TpT store AND a $25 Target gift card! 

Good Luck!