Discover how different texts and genres strengthen literacy and a love for reading in every learner. Read this practical guide for educators.
March 27, 2024
Learn specific ways you can foster a love of reading through student CHOICE.
October 18, 2022
The Fall 2021 Heinemann Digital Look Book is HERE! Check out the latest offerings from Fountas & Pinnell Literacy™.
September 24, 2021
Every learner is different, and every learner takes a unique path to becoming literate.
November 20, 2020
The Fountas & Pinnell Literacy™ systems and resources are grounded in comprehensive, systematic, and sequential lessons.
November 13, 2020
Learn about the essential tool for selecting texts and for understanding the reading behaviors to notice, teach for, and support.
October 4, 2019
Every time you introduce a new task, help children make the transition. After a time, children will learn how to make transitions and take on new tasks more quickly and with independence.
September 20, 2019
Watch the videos on how to unpack and organize Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™.
August 16, 2019
The Fountas & Pinnell Prompting Guides provide you with precise teaching language to demonstrate, prompt for, or reinforce effective reading behaviors.
August 1, 2019
Worried about keeping your students reading over the summer? Here are some suggestions.
June 11, 2019
Did you know that ALL of Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ will be available this fall? Get started early by diving into the NEW Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ Pre-K–6 video.
May 16, 2019
We recently released a blog series where we defined the instructional contexts that makes up a coherent literacy system. In case you missed any of them, view the full lineup!
March 8, 2019
It is important that early in their lives as readers, children learn the power of choice. Only through choice can they develop tastes and preferences, learn that they like some writers better than others, and experience finding a great book that they can recommend to their friends.
February 20, 2019
Fill your classroom library with many texts your students can read independently. Quantity matters. The higher the quality of the texts they read and comprehend, the stronger their foundation for talking and writing.
February 18, 2019
What is independent reading? Why is it important? And what does it look like in the classroom?
February 15, 2019
For independent reading, students learn how to select books for themselves that interest them and that they can read with understanding and fluency.
February 14, 2019
Minilessons place a strong instructional frame around independent reading.
February 13, 2019
Guided reading leads to the independent reading that builds students' effective processing system.
January 10, 2019
