The Continuum of Literacy Learning, Grades K-8
A Guide to Teaching
Gay Su Pinnell, The Ohio State University, Irene C. Fountas, Lesley University
ISBN 978-0-325-01239-1 / 0-325-01239-3 / 2007 / 400pp / Paperback
Imprint: Heinemann
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Grade Level: K-8
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Gay Su Pinnell and Irene Fountas understand that a high-quality curriculum is the important first step toward good teaching and successful learning. Good curriculum comes from knowing what students can do, can almost do, and need to learn how to do as readers, writers, and language users. In The Continuum of Literacy Learning, Grades K–8 they combine everything they have learned about literacy development to create a powerful tool that enables curriculum coordinators and literacy specialists to observe teaching and learning, to plan responsive instruction, and to ensure consistency across buildings, grades, or classrooms. Across the Grades The Continuum of Literacy Learning, Grades K–8 places the behaviors and understandings children can be expected to demonstrate on continua that reflect seven critical instructional contexts: Level by Level The first six continua are organized by grade, while the guided reading milestones are laid out level-by-level along Pinnell and Fountas’ A–Z gradient to facilitate reading instruction at the precise level at which it is most appropriate to support new learning. This helpful representation of goals for literacy growth make it easy to analyze whether curriculum goals are aligned among grades, buildings, or districts. They can serve as a foundation for the creation of responsive, flexible curriculum documents. And, they present the information in Pinnell and Fountas’ Continua for grades K–2 and 3–8 in a different organization that enables literacy specialists and coaches to effectively communicate commonly shared expectations that are grounded in research and expressed as teaching practices. In fact, they provide numerous opportunities for conversations with teachers about: Discover the convenient, easy-to-read resource that supports every aspect of your curriculum by presenting a unified vision of language and literacy development. Read The Continuum of Literacy Learning, Grades K–8 and discover the key to a new standard for excellence in literacy education.
Interactive Read-Aloud and Literature Discussion Shared and Performance Reading Writing About Reading Writing Oral, Visual, and Technological Communication Phonics, Spelling, and Word Study Guided Reading Level A Level B Level C Level D Level E Level F Level G Level H Level I Level J Level K Level L Level M Level N Level O Level P Level Q Level R Level S Level T Level U Level V Level W Level X Level Y Level Z
PD Resources From Gay Su Pinnell
Institutes
- Linking Assessment to Instruction: Using a Continuum of Literacy Learning to Guide Teaching
- Systematic Intervention to Help Struggling Readers: Implementing Leveled Literacy Intervention for Levels A-N (LLI)
Seminars
- Guided Reading
- Teaching Comprehension, Genre, and Content Literacy
- Teaching for Comprehending & Fluency Grades K-8
- Introduction to The Continuum of Literacy Learning
- When Readers Struggle
Workshops
- Using the Continuum of Literacy Learning as a Foundation for Instructional Decision Making in Reading
- When Readers Struggle: Teaching That Works
PD Resources From Irene C. Fountas
Institutes
- Systematic Intervention to Help Struggling Readers: Implementing Leveled Literacy Intervention for Levels A-N (LLI)
- Linking Assessment to Instruction: Using a Continuum of Literacy Learning to Guide Teaching
Seminars
- When Readers Struggle
- Introduction to The Continuum of Literacy Learning
- Teaching for Comprehending & Fluency Grades K-8
- Teaching Comprehension, Genre, and Content Literacy
- Guided Reading
Workshops
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