Fountas & Pinnell Blog

Gather a few books and magazines that feature other places and cultures. What are the similarities and differences? How can books help us travel to new places?

Try baking bread together, with your child in charge of reading the recipe.

Fountas and Pinnell address administering the Benchmark Assessment System during remote learning.

We will be providing temporary teacher access to these additional Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ and Leveled Literacy Intervention resources.

Find authentic ways for the child to write on your behalf. Have them write a shopping list, type your text message, or write down directions.

Take a walk outside. Together, point out various objects along the way, and name the objects by color.

Draw a trunk of a tree with bare branches. Cut out a dozen leaves and each time your child gives joy to someone else have them write what happened on a leaf and then attach the leaf to a branch on the tree.

Teach the child the words to the rhyme, “Three Little Kittens.” Use craft sticks or socks to create puppets to act out the rhyme. Talk about nursery rhymes and how animal characters act like people.

Create a pizza out of art supplies. Think of what materials you have on hand that could represent your favorite toppings.

Have the child pick a color and then brainstorm objects from their daily life that are that color. Have them write down their thoughts on a page. Keep going with different colors.

Ask the child to think of people who have helped them. Have the child send a letter to people to share kind words. Have the child reflect how they felt remembering the experiences of kindness.

Choose some fiction books about animals and read them together. Talk about the illustrations in the stories, and the details that surprised you.

Reach out to friends or relatives who have different food traditions. Have your child interview them about about those traditions. If possible, get recipes and try cooking them with your child.

Temporary, teacher-only access to the Guided Reading (K-3) and Shared Reading (PreK-3) books are live in Online Resources for educators who have purchased these resources.

Gather objects such a crayons, blocks, refrigerator magnets, or the contents of a junk drawer. Have the child sort all the objects by color then have them create a color label for each pile.

An update on the availability of Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ digital resources.

Arrange a telephone call, email exchange, or video chat between the child and someone in your life who has made a difference in the community. Have the child prepare some questions for the interview.

A letter to educators from Gay Su Pinnell and Irene Fountas on remote learning and using Fountas & Pinnell Literacy™ digital resources.