A guide to teaching comprehension, genre, and content literacy. It presents the basic structure of the language/literacy programme with in a framework that encompasses the building of community through language, word study, reading, writing, and the visual arts.
Among the many changes to sweep American literacy education has been a move toward whole class instruction. Nonetheless, children still bring to literacy a wide range of experiences and competencies. How, then, might teachers best support a literate community yet still meet the needs of individual readers? For the authors, the answer lies in ...
This work presents information on designing and implementing a high-quality, systematic literacy programme to help children learn about letters, sounds and words. The central goal is to teach children to become "word solvers": readers who can take words apart while reading for meaning, and writers who can construct words while writing to ...
The difficulties of transferring words to paper can be daunting enough to drown out even the most enthusiastic little voice. This guide offers a powerful teaching method designed to accelerate and support children's critical understanding of the writing process.
"Teaching for Comprehending and Fluency, K - 8" is the next new breakthrough from Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell. Offering a complete picture of how to skillfully teach meaning making and fluency within any instructional context, "Teaching for Comprehending and Fluency, K - 8," supports you with frameworks for high-quality instruction that ...
Fountas & Pinnell take you through every aspect of leveled books from how to select and use them for different instructional purposes to prototype descriptions for fiction and nonfiction books at each level.
Gay Su Pinnell and Irene Fountas understand that a high-quality curriculum is the important first step toward good teaching and successful learning. Good curriculum comes from knowing what students can do, can almost do, and need to learn how to do as readers, writers, and language users. In "The Continuum of Literacy Learning, Grades K - 8 "they ...
This reference provides a comprehensive, up-to-date levelled reading list. Created with the input of hundreds of early literacy teachers, it compiles more than 7000 caption books, natural language texts, series books, and children's literature for kindergarten through grade three.
With this book, the authors build on their previous work, extending leveled books up through the elementary grades and covering all the different genres that are important to students.
If you're interested in learning more about implementing an effective phonics and spelling program, this follow-up to Word Matters provides all the information.
"When Readers Struggle: Teaching That Works "is a comprehensive resource on struggling readers. It's filled with specific teaching ideas for helping children in kindergarten through Grade 3 who are having difficulty in reading and writing. We want these young students to think and behave like effective readers who not only solve words skillfully ...
Over their influential careers, Gay Su Pinnell and Irene Fountas have closely examined the literacy learning of thousands of students in the upper elementary and middle grades. In "The Continuum of Literacy Learning, Grades 3 - "8, and its companion volume for grades K - 2, they combine everything they have learned about the development readers, ...
A handbook designed to help the literacy volunteer wishing to work with children. Assuming that the volunteer is totally unfamiliar with teaching reading skills, there are tips on time management, sample lesson plans, basic information on phonics and fluency, and guidelines for working one-to-one.
Over their influential careers, Gay Su Pinnell and Irene Fountas have closely examined the literacy learning of thousands of students in the primary grades. In "The Continuum of Literacy Learning, Grades K - "2, and its companion volume for grades 3 - 8, they combine everything they have learned about the development of readers, writers, and ...
"The Fountas & Pinnell Prompting Guide 1 "is a flip-chart tool that you can use to enhance your teaching power in guided reading lessons; intervention lessons; shared reading; independent reading; reading and writing conferences; and dictated, independent, and interactive writing. If you are a classroom teacher, reading specialist, literacy ...
The Reader's Notebook is an 8 x 10 spiral notebook specially designed to promote reflection and dialogue about reading. As described in Fountas and Pinnell's best-selling Guiding Readers and Writers, Grades 3-6, the Reader's Notebook is practical and easy to use. In it, students transform traditional book reports into active dialogues. The ...
The research is in, and it's conclusive: the single most important factor in students' reading success is a skillful, informed teacher. In particular, Phonics Lessons provides scientific information about the complex, intricate relationships between letters and sounds and the ways in which they work to support developing readers. Click here to ...
Aimed at those co-ordinating literacy volunteers, this resource offers information on building a programme along with suggestions for training. It provides practical advice on recruiting, orientating, organizing, supervising and advising volunteers, along with transparencies and sample letters.
See "Guided Reading" in action. Join Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell as they highlight effective guided reading lessons and conduct lessons with children. Essential Elements, the first part of the DVD, lets you watch guided reading lessons as they unfold. You'll observe how teachers introduce a text, support children as they read orally and ...
View the essentials of learning about letters, sounds, and words in the context of a high-quality literacy programcomponents of Gay Su Pinnell and Irene C. Fountas' first book on phonics and spelling, "Word Matters" and the basis of the lessons in from Pinnell and Fountas' series, "Phonics Lessons: Letters, Words, and How They Work." In part one, ...
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