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A: We encourage you to adjust the lesson in any way justified by information from your ongoing assessment and observation of learners' strengths and needs.

Guided reading leads to the independent reading that builds students' effective processing system.

No matter how well you plan and structure learning tasks, it’s the one-on-one interactions that inform the power and effectiveness in your teaching.

With guided reading students learn how to engage in every facet of the reading process at their instructional level and take their reading power to all literacy contexts.

Reading aloud is an essential foundation of a good language and literacy system.

Exciting and beautifully crafted books stir children's imagination and enhance their language and knowledge of stories.

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.

Observation of literacy behaviors should drive your next teaching moves.

By connecting learning across instructional contexts, you ensure that children generalize the principle to the texts that they’re reading and writing and find authentic application for their learning.

FAQ Friday: How Can I Ensure That I Am Conducting the Benchmark Assessment in a Standardized Manner?

We believe that well-planned and organized explicit teaching of language principles is critical, but that effective lessons must also contain an element of inquiry.

This valuable tool enables you to adjust, extend, and enhance the materials in Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ to the benefit of each student you teach.

During phonics, spelling, and word study lessons, the teacher provides short, explicit instruction to help children learn about and efficiently use sounds, letters, and words.

Working with English language learners, you have the wonderful opportunity to observe them as they absorb their new language. The following are twenty suggestions for working effectively with young ELLs.

Poems provide children with an authentic opportunity to apply their knowledge of letter/sound relationships and word patterns and parts.

Q: Can I skip levels when assessing a student?

When observing students through phonics and word work, you are noticing what the student knows about the phonetic rules of English and how they work.