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Creating and managing routines is important for a healthy classroom community. Here are 5 management lessons on routines to revisit with your class.

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Let’s recap! To wrap-up 2022, the Fountas & Pinnell Literacy™ Team is here to share the blogs our editors selected as their top-picks this year. Here’s a quick round-up of our most internally beloved blogs.

Readers Picks The Top Read Blogs from 2022

A collection of readers' most loved Fountas & Pinnell Literacy™ blogs from 2022.

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An easy-to-use checkout system is the key to maintaining your guided reading book room. Here are some ideas to consider for organizing the guided reading book room in your school.

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Engage caregivers in meaningful conversation about their child's progress. Shift the conversation away from text levels and discuss each reader's unique strengths and areas for growth.

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Your capacity to support the growth of each student in your classroom depends upon your ability to teach responsively.

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Recently, misinformation has been shared about Fountas & Pinnell resources which grossly misrepresents our solutions and radically oversimplifies complex literacy issues to the detriment of teachers and students. The below information provides clarity and corrects the most egregious inaccuracies.

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When students talk about what they are reading, they reveal their understandings and perspectives, communicate and refine their ideas, and make connections to their own experiences.

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Learn specific ways you can foster a love of reading through student CHOICE. 

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You can optimize the Book Club experience by thoughtfully preparing yourself and your students before reading.

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