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Meli is excited to share some of her letters with you! Here are some from students at St. Anthony School of Milwaukee in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Think of a book talk as a brief commercial for a book. You might prepare for your book talk by jotting a few notes an a sticky note to remind you of the essential points you want to make.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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

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

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

Prekindergarten teachers are faced with the challenge of creating classrooms that are play-based, but also prepare children for a literacy-rich world. While most children will not leave PreK able to read conventionally, their development as emergent readers can be supported in many ways.

A graphic organizer is a visual diagram that shows the relationships among a number of ideas. Use graphic organizers to help students see the important interrelationships in the information they are reading or to become aware of the way authors have structured a text.

We believe, and have always believed, that reading levels are a valuable tool for teachers, and should not be used as a label for the children we teach, but rather should be used to make good decisions in instruction.

This will inevitably happen because students will have slightly different needs. But you are working to place small groups of students together whom a particular reading level is appropriate.

Learn how close the literacy achievement gap using the Fountas & Pinnell Leveled Literacy Intervention System through these two in-depth, multi-day institutes led by Fountas and Pinnell-trained consultants.

As you examine a text for instruction, notice text factors that might be difficult for the English learners in your class.

FAQ Friday: Which High Frequency Word List Should I Use?

Fountas and Pinnell will be hosting a Back-to-School Twitter Chat Thursday, 9/20 at 8:00 p.m. EST.