Where other assessment and benchmark systems leave you wondering "Now what?" Fountas and Pinnell provide a link from assessment to instruction via classroom practices such as guided reading and read-aloud. Their professional book The Continuum of Literacy Learning: A Guide to Teaching is included with the Fountas & Pinnell Benchmark Assessment System and provides the basis for this seminar.Drawing from this important resource, the seminar provides an introduction to The Continuum and how it can be used to set goals for learning in planning lessons for individuals, small groups, and the whole class. Discover how The Continuum can be used as a bridge in connecting your assessment date and your instruction, as well as how it can serve as a guide for evaluating student progress over time, helping you identify the specific areas in which students need help.
Course goals:
- Learn how to use The Continuum to help choose appropriate texts for readers across grades and instructional contexts through text analysis and an understanding of text characteristics
- Explore the behaviors and understandings to notice, teach, and support in getting students to think within, beyond, and about text and how these understandings shift over time
- Apply the Continuum to student work to expand their knowledge of the behaviors and understandings they want to support in reading and writing
- Explore how to support writers in developing skills and strategies in the areas of craft, conventions and the process of writing.
*Please note that two full days are recommended for this course in order to fully cover The Continuum.
Professional Development
