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The Continuum of Literacy Learning, Grades PreK-8, Second Edition: A Guide to Teaching
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Where other assessment and benchmark systems leave you wondering "Now what?" Fountas and Pinnell have provided a link from assessment to instruction via proven classroom practices such as guided reading and read aloud.
This book contains seven continua. Each continuum focuses on an area of the language arts curriculum. Six continua provide grade level expectations and are designed for planning group instruction. The seventh, the Guided Reading continuum, is organized by Fountas and Pinnell level from A to Z and correlates directly with the Fountas and Pinnell Benchmark Assessment System levels.
The continua provide specific descriptions of the texts that students read, listen to, write, and perform. In addition, each continuum lists specific behaviors and understandings that are required at each level for students to demonstrate thinking within, beyond, and about the text. These behaviors and understandings describe what students will be expected to do in order to effectively read and understand the text.
As the world of literacy changes, we also see some important changes in the acquisition of literacy across grade levels. The second edition of The Continuum of Literacy Learning has been adjusted to reflect those changes.
First, the preschools of today are different from those of five years ago; so a Pre-Kindergarten set of continua has been added to the Pre-K -8 and Pre-K-2 versions of this book. This Pre-Kindergarten continuum does not represent "moving" the first grade curriculum down. Instead, it presents a rich array of understandings relative to oral language, story telling, and playful print awareness to provide a strong foundation for Kindergarten learning.
The basic detailed descriptions of behaviors and understandings to notice, teach, and support for grades K through 8 remain the same; but in this new edition of the seven continua, we have added new challenges such as the effective processing of graphic texts and novels. We have also examined carefully the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) framework for 2009-2010 and made changes in some of the ways behaviors and understandings are expressed. Additionally, we have strengthened the expectation to recognize and effectively process genres that are embedded within other genres (hybrid texts-for example a letter, diary entries, or newspaper articles within fictional narratives).
The continuum has also been adjusted in response to current research as well as to a great deal of information related to the implementation of assessment in schools. Finally, the continuum has a new design that makes it easier to read and interpret.
Also check out our new on-demand mini-course: Thinking and Talking About Books Across the Day.
Where other assessment and benchmark systems leave you wondering "Now what?" Fountas and Pinnell have provided a link from assessment to instruction via proven classroom practices such as guided reading and read aloud.
This book contains seven continua. Each continuum focuses on an area of the language arts curriculum. Six continua provide grade level expectations and are designed for planning group instruction. The seventh, the Guided Reading continuum, is organized by Fountas and Pinnell level from A to Z and correlates directly with the Fountas and Pinnell Benchmark Assessment System levels.
The continua provide specific descriptions of the texts that students read, listen to, write, and perform. In addition, each continuum lists specific behaviors and understandings that are required at each level for students to demonstrate thinking within, beyond, and about the text. These behaviors and understandings describe what students will be expected to do in order to effectively read and understand the text.
As the world of literacy changes, we also see some important changes in the acquisition of literacy across grade levels. The second edition of The Continuum of Literacy Learning has been adjusted to reflect those changes.
First, the preschools of today are different from those of five years ago; so a Pre-Kindergarten set of continua has been added to the Pre-K -8 and Pre-K-2 versions of this book. This Pre-Kindergarten continuum does not represent "moving" the first grade curriculum down. Instead, it presents a rich array of understandings relative to oral language, story telling, and playful print awareness to provide a strong foundation for Kindergarten learning.
The basic detailed descriptions of behaviors and understandings to notice, teach, and support for grades K through 8 remain the same; but in this new edition of the seven continua, we have added new challenges such as the effective processing of graphic texts and novels. We have also examined carefully the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) framework for 2009-2010 and made changes in some of the ways behaviors and understandings are expressed. Additionally, we have strengthened the expectation to recognize and effectively process genres that are embedded within other genres (hybrid texts-for example a letter, diary entries, or newspaper articles within fictional narratives).
The continuum has also been adjusted in response to current research as well as to a great deal of information related to the implementation of assessment in schools. Finally, the continuum has a new design that makes it easier to read and interpret.
Also check out our new on-demand mini-course: Thinking and Talking About Books Across the Day.
408 pages, Paperback
First published May 31, 2010
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November 17, 2013
This book is amazing. It was introduced to me this year when I walked into my classroom. I was told to look at all of the guided reading levels and learn what was taught in each level. This book was so easy to navigate and really lays out all of the information in a reader-friendly way. I've looked back at this book while teaching my guided reading groups. It helps me know what to really emphasize at each level and how to gear up my lessons in order to get my students to pass to the next reading level. This is a must have for all teachers. I will definitely continue using this book because it's a great guide.
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October 19, 2010As a first year teacher, thus far I am absolutely in love with The Continuum of Literacy Learning. My school purchased copies of the book for every class to go along with the new framework for literacy our district is doing as well as the school-wide implementation of the Fountas and Pinnell literacy benchmarking assessment. I brought it home over a break from school just to be the dutiful teacher and look over it.
When I began looking through the book, I found it impressively interesting! Fountas and Pinnell offer concrete goals and methods for teachers to use in a variety of literacy learning experiences (guided reading, shared reading, etc). Whereas many literacy books are very broad and general, The Continuum of Literacy Learning targets specific goals and strategies for particular levels. In most areas of literacy, the focus is more general- relating to a grade level as a whole. However, the guided reading section targets every applicable reading level of the Fountas and Pinnell assessment tool (and for those who teach in schools that do not have Fountas and Pinnell, there are many websites that show how the various reading leveling tools correlate to one another so one can fairly closely approximate a students' level).
Using the Continuum of Literacy Learning, the mystery of planning literacy lesson plans is a lot less of a stress point. One can easily reference the book to figure out possible goals that are appropriate for the students. This is one resource that I hope to have at my fingertips for quite a while. I highly recommend it to teachers of any experience level.
When I began looking through the book, I found it impressively interesting! Fountas and Pinnell offer concrete goals and methods for teachers to use in a variety of literacy learning experiences (guided reading, shared reading, etc). Whereas many literacy books are very broad and general, The Continuum of Literacy Learning targets specific goals and strategies for particular levels. In most areas of literacy, the focus is more general- relating to a grade level as a whole. However, the guided reading section targets every applicable reading level of the Fountas and Pinnell assessment tool (and for those who teach in schools that do not have Fountas and Pinnell, there are many websites that show how the various reading leveling tools correlate to one another so one can fairly closely approximate a students' level).
Using the Continuum of Literacy Learning, the mystery of planning literacy lesson plans is a lot less of a stress point. One can easily reference the book to figure out possible goals that are appropriate for the students. This is one resource that I hope to have at my fingertips for quite a while. I highly recommend it to teachers of any experience level.
November 15, 2013
This book is a must have for teachers! I highly recommend this book because it explains strategies for literacy instruction that yield very useful data/information that can direct classroom instruction.
One of my grad school classes used this book to study guided reading and different genres of text. All the information is clearly laid out in the book and made it a little easier to attempt to implement the strategies with my students for the first time. For example, specific behaviors and understandings that are required at each level for students to demonstrate thinking within, beyond, and about the text are clearly laid out in the tables. I especially enjoyed how chapter twenty-four explained step by step how to successfully implement guided reading in a classroom (even with one teacher). It even went into great detail explaining how to choose and introduce an appropriate text. I love how this book breaks down literacy instruction that is research based and has proven to be effective.
One of my grad school classes used this book to study guided reading and different genres of text. All the information is clearly laid out in the book and made it a little easier to attempt to implement the strategies with my students for the first time. For example, specific behaviors and understandings that are required at each level for students to demonstrate thinking within, beyond, and about the text are clearly laid out in the tables. I especially enjoyed how chapter twenty-four explained step by step how to successfully implement guided reading in a classroom (even with one teacher). It even went into great detail explaining how to choose and introduce an appropriate text. I love how this book breaks down literacy instruction that is research based and has proven to be effective.
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November 15, 2013This book was provided to me as a literacy guide during my first year of teaching. The first thing I noticed about the book was that it was sectioned off with tabs so you could easy get to the section that you need. As I started reading, I fell in love. The book goes into great detail for teaching literacy concepts and incorporates skills and methods that could be integrated in all levels ranging from PK-8th. Most importantly, this book is awesome for assisting with guided reading and small group planning!
January 24, 2016
This text is a guide to teaching students in grades preK-8th. The text is an excellent resource to finding out "what" students should know how to do by a certain grade level on the literacy continuum. It is a valuable resource for reading specialist, special education teachers, and general education teachers. It can help plan for instruction within the classroom and for differentiating instruction among students.
February 6, 2014
Excellent book if you are an educator or work in the schools. I chose and pick at certain chapters and will probably keep returning to the book to review it.
May 26, 2016
If using leveled books for instruction A MUST USE RESOURSE!!!
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