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Our district decided to have our kindergarten teachers use a slightly different version of Daily 5 CAFE. I have used the CAFE in my room (and Daily 5 as well) for several years now.  The more I use it, the more I fall in love with it, and the more it becomes my own.  As I use CAFE though, I have found it helpful to create pictures on the computer to remind students of the concept rather than having someone draw it.  It just works better for me.

Here is a compilation of all of the concepts we teach, according to the Kindergarten TEKS in the state of Texas for Reading.  I use the monkeys, because my classroom has a monkey theme, but I also changed out the pictures to offer two other versions of the packet.  I started doing this in this manner about halfway through the year this past year, so I am excited to start the year with it!  I think it will really help keep me on track to have them all already done and ready to go!

Leave me feedback and let me know what you think!  (Click on each set to see more details on my TpT store!)

 This is the General Set. (This set is now marked at $9.00).

They all have the CAFE header card. 

The CAFE posters each have the letter, the word it represents, and what it means for the student.  As I mentioned, these are very specific to kinder.  I have had some requests to alter them to fit grades first and second for my teacher friends in that grade level.  If I continue to get that feedback, I will also create them for those grades as well!

 This one is called Ladybug Fun...I am super excited for the cute CAFE posters and kind of bummed that my room is all monkeys because I have fallen in love with it...here is a poster letter to show you why I think its so cute!

 Each set has over 50 concept cards all with pictures to match.  They also include a list of what concepts go best under each header, though you may choose to place them elsewhere.  Though chunks are listed as one concept, I like to put ALL of them by vowel sound and chunk under the letter so students can refer to it for sound recognition.  I used this part for the first time this year and it helped my kids in their reading much more than I could have even imagined!