Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ is designed to teach teachers about literacy and language development as they teach.
July 10, 2019
Teaching is a journey. Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ is designed to help teachers grow year after year.
July 8, 2019
Your work as a teacher of literacy can be demanding, challenging, and at times altogether frustrating. But it is also worthwhile and important because it transforms the lives of children.
July 3, 2019
Follow these steps to help guide you when organizing your classroom environment to support word solving.
July 2, 2019
Whether you are teaching prekindergarteners to recognize individual letters in their names or you are teaching sixth graders to recognize bias in the language of a persuasive text, your work is transformative.
July 1, 2019
Where can I get ideas for organizing my classroom?
June 28, 2019
What is the Fountas & Pinnell Literacy™ Community? Find out who the Community is for, what it consists of, and why you need to be a part of it.
June 27, 2019
As teachers, our task is to help students move from the beginnings of processing to fully functioning systems that expand over time and across texts.
The Literacy Continuum does not represent neat stages of learning. Readers vary in what they give attention to and enjoy. And they are all different from each other.
June 26, 2019
Learners progress in their individual ways, but they ultimately reach the same goal – a complex and flexible literacy processing system.
June 24, 2019
Learning does not automatically happen; most students need expert teaching to develop high levels of reading and writing expertise.
June 20, 2019
This month, Meli answers questions from students in New Jersey, Kentucky, Wisconsin, and Oklahoma!
A learner might make tremendous gains in one area while seeming to almost “stand still” in another. It’s our job to provide these learning opportunities and guide their attention so that learning in one area supports learning in others.
June 19, 2019
When teachers with a common vision work together over time, and have the lift of excellent professional learning, they develop a common knowledge about the nature of learning.
June 17, 2019
Take the summer to focus on elevating your expertise.
June 13, 2019
Take the time to reflect on your teaching. Perhaps the most valuable aspect of self-reflection and professional development is the talk and problem solving that takes place between colleagues as a result.
The best kind of professional development is not a “one off,” but consists of an ongoing series that supports growth in expertise over time.
June 12, 2019
Worried about keeping your students reading over the summer? Here are some suggestions.
June 11, 2019
*The views expressed in our blog are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of Fountas and Pinnell.
