If you're interested in learning more about implementing an effective phonics and spelling program, this follow-up to Word Matters provides all the information. This edited collection is a rich extension of Fountas and Pinnell's instructional system for word study, featuring chapters by the field's most important scholars and practitioners. These educators explore letter and word learning in a variety of reading, writing, and language contexts-with articles that range from detailed observations of individual readers and writers to full-scale analyses of classroom processes and student work. The book includes practical information on how to engage in interactive writing and shared reading, how to use a word wall and word sorting, and how to use effective assessment tools.
Special guest authors include: Billie J. Askew - David Booth - Diane E. DeFord - Dorothy P. Hall and Patricia M. Cunningham - Justina Henry - Susan Hundley and Diane Powell - Carol B. Jenkins - Carol A. Lyons - Andrea McCarrier and Ida Patacca - William Stokes - Sandra Wilde - Barbara Joan Wiley - Jerry Zutell.
Voices on Word Matters will extend your learning as it takes you into rich literacy classrooms, provides you with concrete learning activities, and expands your understanding of Fountas and Pinnell's instructional framework. There are also reproducible sheets and lists for classroom application as well as end-of-chapter professional development activities to support you in your work and in your collegiality.

Voices on Word Matters: Learning About Phonics and Spelling in the Literacy Classroom

Reference

Fountas, Irene C.

Pinnell, Gay Su

Words, Language & Grammar

Heinemann

Provides a list of 7,500 titles, including caption books, series books, and natural language texts, for children in kindergarten through grade three.

Matching Books to Readers: Using Leveled Books in Guided Reading, K-3

Education & Teaching

Fountas, Irene

Schools & Teaching

Grades K-2 Children want to make their mark–on paper, on any surface, in life. But the difficulties of transferring words to paper can be daunting enough to drown out even the most enthusiastic voice. Enter interactive writing, a new instructional approach in which teachers and children collaborate to produce a written text. Just as Fountas and Pinnell did in their best-selling Guided Reading, the authors offer powerful first teaching designed to accelerate and support children's critical understanding of the writing process. Interactive Writing is specifically focused on the early phases of writing, and has special relevance to prekindergarten, kindergarten, grade 1 and 2 teachers. In a clear, step-by-step format, the authors show how teachers can use interactive writing to teach a range of foundational literacy skills by sharing the pen with young writers: <ul>
<li>letter learning </li>
<li>phonological and orthographic awareness </li>
<li>learning the nature of words </li>
<li>building a writing vocabulary </li>
<li>learning concepts about print </li>
<li>organizing and composing narrative and expository text. </li> </ul>
Important features include a rich array of examples of children's writing, down-to-earth practical advice, suggestions for using children's literature and art in the writing program, numerous photos of children's work, and suggestions for professional development. Additionally, there are thorough descriptions of how interactive writing can be used as a tool for inquiry across the curriculum–in content areas as well as in literature. With this kind of broad application, children can grow to see writing as a lifelong tool for learning–and see themselves as writers, right from the start. The book is filled with practical information on how to get started with interactive writing, with explicit details from specific materials to fine teaching points.

Interactive Writing: How Language & Literacy Come Together, K-2 (F&P Professional Books and Multimedia)

McCarrier, Andrea

With this book, the authors build on their previous work, extending leveled books up through the elementary grades and covering all the different genres that are important to students.

Leveled Books for Readers, Grades 3-6: A Companion Volume to Guiding Readers and Writers

Children's Books

Authors Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell have already helped hundreds of thousands of K-3 teachers engage, inform, and inspire early readers and writers. Now, with Guiding Readers and Writers (Grades 3-6), Fountas and Pinnell support teachers on the next leg of the literacy journey, addressing the unique challenges of teaching upper elementary students. 
 The product of many years of work with classroom teachers, Guiding Readers and Writers (Grades 3-6) is one of the most comprehensive, authoritative guides available today. It explores all the essential components of a quality literacy program in six separate sections: 
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Breakthrough to Literacy: Fountas and Pinnell present the basic structure of the language/literacy program within a breakthrough framework that encompasses the building of community through language, word study, reading, writing, and the visual arts. The framework plays out as three "blocks," which can be interpreted as conceptual units as well as segments of time within the school day. Specific information on how to structure a reading and writing workshop is provided. A practical chapter on organizing and managing the classroom will help you implement the principles in your own classroom. </li>
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Independent Reading: It is essential for students to develop interests and tastes as readers, selecting books for themselves every day. Fountas and Pinnell devote four chapters to independent reading, exploring how to structure teaching, minilessons, conferences, groupshare, and ways to use response journals as part of a reading workshop. </li>
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Guided Reading: The chapters in this section provide detailed information on planning for guided reading, dynamic grouping for effective teaching, and selecting, introducing, and using leveled texts. Fountas and Pinnell describe characteristics of texts related to difficulty and ways to organize texts in your classroom and school. </li>
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Literature Study: This section of the book discusses how to make students' experiences with literature as rich as possible. The authors offer specific suggestions for forming groups, guiding student choices, and establishing and teaching routines for literature discussion. A full chapter explores reader response and ways to help readers dig deep to uncover the meaning of texts. </li>
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Teaching for Comprehension and Word Analysis: This detailed look at the reading process explores both oral and silent reading, processes and behaviors related to comprehension, and ways to help students construct meaning. Included are twelve systems for sustaining the reading process and expanding meaning, plus discussions of the important areas of phonics, spelling, and vocabulary. </li>
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The Reading and Writing Connection: These chapters showcase the instructional contexts - poetry, writer's notebooks, writer's talks, genre, content literacy, and student research - that support students in connected reading and writing. An informative overview of the characteristics of fiction and nonfiction will help you teach students to read and write a variety of genre. What's more, the authors suggest ways to help students learn the "genre" of testing and perform the kinds of reading and writing tasks that tests require. They also detail the continuous thoughtful assessment that guides all aspects of effective teaching. </li>
</ul> A special feature appears at the end of each section, in which Fountas and Pinnell provide indispensable suggestions for working with struggling readers and writers.

Guiding Readers and Writers (Grades 3-6): Teaching, Comprehension, Genre, and Content Literacy

Business & Money

Education & Reference

teaching resource binder for Phonics Lessons Grade 2 (NOT the paperback book) in 3 Ring Binder format with following binder tabs: Assessment guide, materials &amp; routines, games, templates, category word cards, lesson word cards, bibliographies, 617 pages

Phonics Lessons: Letters, Words, and How They Work: Grade 2

FirstHand

Fountas and Pinnell Benchmark Assessment System 2: Grades 3-8, Levels L-z

The lessons in this guide are designed to support effective, well-paced teaching for early readers using the Fontas & Pinell system. Each 30-minute lesson is detailed in specifics, with goals, supplies, and techniques clearly listed along will illustrations.

Fountas & Pinnell Leveled Literacy Intervention: Lesson Guide, Volume 1 Orange System: Lessons 1-30

Heinemann Educational Books

Fountas & Pinnell Leveled Literacy Intervention: Lesson Guide, Vol. 2, Orange System - Lessons 31-70

Use The Continuum of Literacy Learning and The Continuum of Literacy Learning Teaching Library DVD companion series, to deepen your understanding of the continua and how to use them as assessment and planning tools. These videos will hone your ability to observe the behaviors of your own readers and writers, and help sharpen your thinking about how your teaching can match your students' needs as they become more proficient in the use of literacy and language. The User Guide is designed to help you navigate theThe Continuum of Literacy Learning Teaching Library and deepen your understanding of how to use the Continuum as an assessment and planning tool. By following the suggestions for viewing and discussing the video segments you will hone your ability to observe the behaviors of your readers and writers. Specific viewing suggestions for individuals, small groups, and staff developers are identified throughout the User Guide to help customize your learning experience. Armed with The Continuum of Literacy Learning and The Continuum of Literacy Learning Teaching Library DVD companion series, both from Gay Su Pinnell and Irene Fountas, every teacher will have the tools and techniques they need to guide assessment, activate responsive teaching, and support students on their literacy and language journey. Content Coverage in the Language Arts Curriculum The behaviors presented in each of the continua of learning serve as the basis for both the Continuum book and the Continuum DVD library. Using these two resources together, individuals, small groups, and staff developers will have the opportunity to study and observe student behaviors and the appropriate teaching that supports students in increasing their ability across the language arts curriculum. Save with a Teaching Library Bundle or a Staff Development Bundle.

The Continuum of Literacy Learning Teaching Library: Professional Development Teaching Collection: Grades PreK-2

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