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The goal of guided reading is to teach students how to engage in strategic actions they can apply again the next day and thereafter.

Everything you do supports students in expanding strategic actions, which must be constructed by the reader, but not without help.

Schools can be places where competition is more common than collaboration, and students are tested as much as they are taught. This is why it's important for students to feel a sense of community, not just in the classroom but across all grades.

In our highly literate society, the ability to read is an important component in an individual’s quality of life.

A: Fountas & Pinnell's Sistema de evaluación de la lectura Grados K–2, ©2019 (Niveles A–N) has been updated to align with the changes to the Fountas & Pinnell Benchmark Assessment System. The changes include:

Read Meli's answers to students from Laguna Hills, California!

Teaching children to read is the challenge and the responsibility of every teacher who enters the profession.

When students spend their time thinking, reading, writing, and talking every day, they get a message about what is valued in your classroom and they begin to develop their own values.

Often, it can be difficult to find time for every activity in the classroom. As a remedy, here are some activities that can serve multiple purposes simultaneously.

We all have more learning to do every year of teaching.

BAS is a standardized, formal assessment administered with an unseen, unfamiliar text so that the teacher can obtain observable evidence of what the child can do independently in terms of processing and understanding.

As new professional learning takes hold, you reconcile what you know already with the new understandings, and smoothly operating procedures grow as a result.

The Literacy Continuum is critical to your literacy instruction. It has everything you need to guide your students effectively through their literacy journeys.

We don’t want children to go to school to “do school,” but to go to school to live a literate life with others.

Any time twenty-five or so people work together for hours every day in one room, they need agreements about how members of the group will work together so the time and space works well for everyone

Guided reading is the ONLY instructional context in which you would use leveled texts.

FAQ Friday: What Should I Share with Parents about Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™?

We don't want students thinking, this is my level. No kid is a level G, or a level M. Levels are for books, not students.