Fountas & Pinnell Blog

One cannot teach effectively without gathering information about the unique strengths and needs of each learner.

Continuous professional learning using a rich variety of resources and opportunities is crucial to elevating teacher expertise.

You can see the results of your teaching through accurate assessment.

The primary purpose of assessment is to gather data to inform teaching.

Collaborative inquiry is coming together with colleagues and delving into what students' behaviors mean. By looking at the continuum together as a tool to engage in that process, the collaborative inquiry, it makes colleagues of us all.

Every teacher has the right to be a part of a learning community in which people help each other and believe that the progress of children relies on everyone working together.

Educators must develop a culture of collaboration within the school. The school should be more like a community. This can happen if teachers work together toward this common vision of what literacy progress looks like.

In this preview episode, our conversation focuses on building a classroom community and establishing routines for effective, efficient teaching within FPC.

The act and process of reading and the reader's response through talk and writing are powerful tools for high-impact teaching.

Literacy behaviors enable teachers to infer what students are able to do as they think their way through a text.

One of the benefits of a systematic Benchmark Assessment System is that teachers will be able to select texts appropriately for maximum progress.

Assessment helps teachers identify where to emphasize teaching.

The classroom is where students spend most of their time. Here are some steps you can take to turn your classroom of students into a community of learners.

The goal of assessment is to grow in our understandings of our students and the processes involved in learning to read.

Assessment is not teaching; it is gathering information for teaching.

Watch the videos on how to unpack and organize Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™.

Assessment must result in informed teaching.

To be effective, intervention must incorporate everything we know about what students need to learn, especially those who are experiencing difficulty.