December 29. 2017
Q: How can Leveled Literacy Intervention (LLI) be integrated into Fountas & Pinnell Classroom (FPC)?
A: LLI supplements FPC for children who need something extra. All children should have high-quality classroom-based literacy instruction, and LLI is the most coherent supplementary literacy intervention to FPC for students that need extra support to achieve grade level proficiency.
December 28. 2017
Shared reading can play an important role in expanding the systems of strategic actions using a variety of texts.
December 27. 2017
Through commenting, demonstrating and questioning during interactive read-aloud, teachers can show readers how to express interpretations of texts.
December 26. 2017
May you enjoy some time for reflection, renewal, relaxation and fellowship this holiday season.
~The Fountas & Pinnell Literacy™ Team
December 22. 2017
Q: Can a child look at the book during the comprehension conversation?
A: Yes. One purpose of the Benchmark Assessment System is to give you information to guide your instruction. If a child has to look back as a reminder it doesn’t necessarily mean the child doesn’t understand or remember. Perhaps the child doesn’t feel confident in his or her memory or talking about the text without that confirming look. Reinforcement and prompts to talk about texts without always looking back may build the child's confidence. The teacher needs to know the student and note such observations of behaviors that provide evidence of thinking and analyze the child’s thinking at that point in time.
December 21. 2017
Students learn by applying what they know to the reading and writing of increasingly complex texts.
December 20. 2017
It's time for school to break for the holidays, so Meli wanted to be sure to wish you all healthy, happy, and FUN days off! She received many letters over the past year, and every single one of them have filled her heart with joy. She's so happy to know that children all over the world are practicing their reading and writing, and enjoying it! Keep it up!
Here are some questions from her friends at Woodland Elementary East in Gages Lake, Illinois. More...
December 20. 2017
With observation and strong teaching, students will develop and build their reading power and capacity to process and deeply understand new texts.
December 19. 2017
Many of your lessons on management, skills, strategies, and literary analysis will flow from observations you make during interactive read-aloud and conferring with children during independent reading. When organizing your classroom for reading minilessons, designate wall space near the meeting area to display anchor charts with principles that children are currently learning and applying.
From Fountas & Pinnell Classroom System Guide by Irene C. Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell. Copyright (c) 2018 by Irene C. Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell. Published by Heinemann.
December 18. 2017
We want ongoing reading assessments to provide us with evidence that students are using systems of strategic actions across texts.
