Fountas & Pinnell Blog

Actively nurturing family and community partnerships can be a powerful force in building and maintaining a healthy community of learners.

Teaching and learning depend upon the willingness of individuals to share themselves and their ideas with their community. That willingness requires belonging.

The choices you make now about your classroom setting will help to drive your community’s narrative all year long.

Single Titles and Text Sets Now Available for Guided Reading, Shared Reading, Interactive Read-Aloud, and Book Clubs.

As you spend time reflecting and looking for sources of renewal this summer, we wanted to recommend some of our Professional Books.

While shared reading plays a vital role in supporting young children, more advanced readers also experience many benefits.

Looking for inspiration for summer school learning? Watch a preview of the Fountas & Pinnell Literacy™ Resources for Summer School Webinar recording with Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell.

We will be offering five, four-part live webinar series with Heinemann Professional Development this summer for you to grow your expertise and strengthen your literacy instruction.

Fountas & Pinnell Literacy™ has an abundance of new offerings! Here’s a quick round-up of all the engaging resources that have released this season.

The Spring 2022 Digital Look Book is HERE! Browse the latest offerings from Fountas & Pinnell Literacy™.

Learn how to help school leaders harness the world-changing power that comes from moving together from vision to action.

What every school leader needs to know – a guide for school leaders as they create equitable communities of learning for all students.

Attend one or both of these grade-ranged three-day institutes to gain a deeper understanding of the LLI system, and how to use the system to provide more effective teaching to your students.

Encourage children to share their thinking about reading in creative ways. Guide them with general prompts in order to have them think about themes, characters, genre, and connections to their own life, the world, and other texts.

"Shared writing" gives young children the chance to do some writing while you fill in the rest. Here is how you can engage in shared writing with your child at home.

The only joy greater than reading a good book, perhaps, is writing your own. Read this tip of how you can help your child create their own book.

The Fall 2021 Heinemann Digital Look Book is HERE! Check out the latest offerings from Fountas & Pinnell Literacy™.

Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell advocate for collaboration instead of polarization; rationales instead of labels; observation instead of rigidity; and equitable literacy instruction for all children.