Chapter books and increasingly complex nonfiction books challenge readers' ability to synthesize and accumulate information, and sustain comprehension. Longer texts require readers to be more skilled around several key goals:

• Fiction: Plot and setting; character; vocabulary and figurative language; and themes and ideas
• Nonfiction: Main

Chapter books challenge readers' ability to synthesize and accumulate information, and sustain comprehension. Longer texts require readers to be more skilled around the goals of:

• sustaining understandings about plots that have many events, and may include events out of order (flashback, foreshadowing)
• visualizing

As nonfiction books become more sophisticated, they challenge students’ ability to synthesize and accumulate information and sustain comprehension. Longer texts require readers to be more skilled around the goals of:

• Determining the main idea of of sections, chapters, and the whole book
• Identifying and separating

Meet students where they are and lead them forward with intention and precision

As a teacher of literacy, you transform the lives of the children in your classroom. The Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ Guided Reading Collection will allow you to build a rich guided reading collection over time with the most powerful, engaging, original... more

Meet students where they are and lead them forward with intention and precision

As a teacher of literacy, you transform the lives of the children in your classroom. The Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ Guided Reading Collection will allow you to build a rich guided reading collection over time with the most powerful, engaging, original... more

Meet students where they are and lead them forward with intention and precision

As a teacher of literacy, you transform the lives of the children in your classroom. The Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ Guided Reading Collection will allow you to build a rich guided reading collection over time with the most powerful, engaging, original... more

In their Young Mathematicians at Work series, Catherine Twomey Fosnot, Maarten Dolk, and Bill Jacob describe an innovative approach to mathematics instruction where teachers help young children construct a deep understanding of numeracy and operations in a math workshop environment that supports the Common Core Standards for Mathematical Practice.

The... more