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FAQ Friday: How Do I Choose Books for Guided Reading?

Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ is not about scripting for teachers. Instead, it offers models for teacher language and moves.

Updated Spanish Benchmark Assessment System Available NOW!

Authentic literacy means kids engage in literacy in school like they do in life.

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Teacher Tip: How to Organize Your Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™

Your classroom’s physical space and the placement, accessibility, and use of materials show what you value as a teacher. Design a classroom that reflects your values and also makes children feel it is their place of learning.

Teacher Tip: Work Actively to Create Inclusion

Book clubs provide an authentic opportunity for children to apply many of the literacy behaviors and understandings that they have learned through other instructional contexts: thinking within, beyond, and about a text; listening and understanding; interacting socially; engaging in extended discussions; and more.

Children’s talk about reading reveals and expands their thinking.

FAQ Friday: How High Do You Test Students in the Benchmark Assessment?

Book Clubs and Reading Minilessons are two of the latest instructional contexts to be released in Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™. Here’s what you’ll expect in these two important resources.

Minilessons are most powerful when taught in response to an authentic need that you observe in most readers in your classroom.

During reading minilessons, the teacher presents specific, explicit instruction to help children become independent readers for life.

Each Reading Minilesson engages children in inquiry that leads to the discovery and understanding of a general principle.

FAQ Friday: Is There a Digital Way to Take a Reading Record?

3 Steps to Organizing Your Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ Resources

Reading Minilessons are the glue that holds together all the other instructional contexts together.