Teacher Tip: Steps to Preparing an Introduction to a Text for Guided Reading Lessons
February 11, 2020
Learn about the essential tool for selecting texts and for understanding the reading behaviors to notice, teach for, and support.
October 4, 2019
The classroom is where students spend most of their time. Here are some steps you can take to turn your classroom of students into a community of learners.
August 22, 2019
Watch the videos on how to unpack and organize Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™.
August 16, 2019
The Fountas & Pinnell Prompting Guides provide you with precise teaching language to demonstrate, prompt for, or reinforce effective reading behaviors.
August 1, 2019
Looking to go paperless? Fountas & Pinnell offer a suite of digital apps to use in your classroom for greater convenience and efficiency.
July 26, 2019
Take the summer to focus on elevating your expertise.
June 13, 2019
What is Guided Reading? A complete overview and what to expect from the Guided Reading, Second Edition Professional Book.
June 7, 2019
Guided reading is not the entire literacy program; rather, it is a vital and necessary part of it. We discuss a design for literacy—one that can be built over time.
May 20, 2019
Did you know that ALL of Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ will be available this fall? Get started early by diving into the NEW Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ Pre-K–6 video.
May 16, 2019
When teachers systematically observe the literacy strengths and needs of all students, it can inform instruction and teaching can be powerful and responsive.
April 3, 2019
We recently released a blog series where we defined the instructional contexts that makes up a coherent literacy system. In case you missed any of them, view the full lineup!
March 8, 2019
After teaching, reflect on the guided reading lesson even if only for a short time.
January 29, 2019
What is guided reading? Why is guided reading important? And what does guided reading look like in the classroom?
January 18, 2019
The goal of guided reading is not for students to just read “this book” or understand a single text, but – with expert teaching – to create learning that is generative and that can be applied across texts.
January 17, 2019
A system for taking running records at selected intervals is essential to effective teaching in guided reading lessons.
January 16, 2019
Guided reading leads to the independent reading that builds students' effective processing system.
January 10, 2019
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.
January 9, 2019
