May 26. 2017
Lessons are carefully planned and systematic; but there is always room for moment-to-moment adjustment given student response.
May 25. 2017
The language you use is the real key in helping readers build their independent processing power.
May 24. 2017
The better you know the students in your class, the more effective and more responsive you will be as a teacher of reading.
May 22. 2017
Building a community of readers and writers in your classroom is a way of teaching them what it means to be human. Reading and writing are not isolated, competitive skills that must be constantly tested. Written language was invented as a way of recording truth and communicating it.
May 19. 2017
All students need consistent and clear messages across instructional contexts. Our belief is that the curriculum must have a coherent design and a coherent underlying literacy theory rather than simply being a mix of “this and that,” without an eye to how different parts work together to form a cohesive whole.
May 18. 2017
Each time you prompt in a guided reading lesson, it is a call to action. It evokes something the reader can do. You need to teach for the strategic action before you can call for the reader to engage it. When you see the reader is engaging in the behaviors independently, you move beyond prompting to reinforce it.
May 17. 2017
Over the past few months, we have slowly pulled back the curtain on Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™--a first-of-its-kind system for high-quality, classroom-based literacy instruction. There have been blog posts, webinars, and Twitter chats covering every angle of this exciting new system. In case you missed anything, below is a recap. More...
May 17. 2017
In our highly literate society, the ability to read is an important component in an individual’s quality of life.
May 15. 2017
A literate life is the right of every child, and most students need expert teaching to have access to that life.
May 12. 2017
When students process one text, they learn to think in new ways and take these expanded understandings to every other text they read.
