Topic: Daily Lit Bit

As educators, we need to get on the same page and work in the same direction .

The Prompting Guides give teachers language that will help students take on independence.

Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ helps teachers learn how to observe kids and guide for deeper understanding.

Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ is designed to teach teachers about literacy and language development as they teach.

Teaching is a journey. Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ is designed to help teachers grow year after year.

Your work as a teacher of literacy can be demanding, challenging, and at times altogether frustrating. But it is also worthwhile and important because it transforms the lives of children.

Whether you are teaching prekindergarteners to recognize individual letters in their names or you are teaching sixth graders to recognize bias in the language of a persuasive text, your work is transformative.

As teachers, our task is to help students move from the beginnings of processing to fully functioning systems that expand over time and across texts.

The Literacy Continuum does not represent neat stages of learning. Readers vary in what they give attention to and enjoy. And they are all different from each other.

Learners progress in their individual ways, but they ultimately reach the same goal – a complex and flexible literacy processing system.

Learning does not automatically happen; most students need expert teaching to develop high levels of reading and writing expertise.

A learner might make tremendous gains in one area while seeming to almost “stand still” in another. It’s our job to provide these learning opportunities and guide their attention so that learning in one area supports learning in others.

When teachers with a common vision work together over time, and have the lift of excellent professional learning, they develop a common knowledge about the nature of learning.

Take the time to reflect on your teaching. Perhaps the most valuable aspect of self-reflection and professional development is the talk and problem solving that takes place between colleagues as a result.

The best kind of professional development is not a “one off,” but consists of an ongoing series that supports growth in expertise over time.

Observation enables teachers to honor the development and range of strengths in students.

Without effective assessment, instruction will be mere guesswork.

Through systematic observations and precise record-keeping, you will have a continuous flow of accurate info on students’ progress.