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Guiding readers and writers, grades 3-6 : teaching comprehension, genre, and content literacy / Irene C. Fountas, Gay Su Pinnell.

Van Pelt Library LB1576 .F65 2001
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Fountas, Irene C.
Contributor:
Pinnell, Gay Su.
James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Language arts (Elementary).
Reading (Elementary).
English language--Composition and exercises--Study and teaching.
English language.
Physical Description:
648 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Other Title:
Teaching comprehension, genre, and content literacy
Place of Publication:
Portsmouth, N.H. : Heinemann, [2001]
Summary:
Provides major components for an elementary literacy program, including the teaching of comprehension and word analysis, a 1,000 title book list, and suggestions for struggling readers and writers.
Contents:
I: Breakthrough to literacy: powerful teaching for all students
1. Becoming lifelong readers and writers: the goal of the intermediate literacy program
2. Achieving literacy with a three-block framework: language & word study, reading, and writing
3. Investigating and using language: the language and word study design
4. Becoming joyful readers: the reading workshop
5. Developing accomplished writers: the writing workshop
6. Making it work: organizing and managing time, space, and resources
Struggling readers and writers: teaching that makes a difference
II: Independent reading
7. Encouraging independent reading
8. Planning effective minilessons and conferences
9. Getting started: the first twenty days of independent reading
10. Writing to explore meaning: reader's notebook
III: Guided reading
11. Understanding guided reading
12. Planning for guided reading
13. Dynamic grouping for effective teaching in guided reading
14. Selected, introducing, and using leveled texts
IV: Literature study
15. Discovering literature study: the essential elements
16. Putting literature study in action
17. Responding to literature: multiple paths to deeper meaning
V: Comprehension and word analysis
18. Understanding the reading process
19. Teaching for comprehending written text: across the language and literacy framework
20. Teaching for sustaining strategies in guided reading
21. Teaching for connecting and expanding strategies in guided reading
22. Teaching for word-solving: phonics, spelling, and vocabulary
VI: The reading and writing connection
23. Teaching genre and content literacy: exploring fiction and nonfiction texts
24. Creating and poetry workshop: reading, writing and the arts
25. Exploring the writer's terrain: writer talks, writer's notebooks, and investigations
26. Supporting readers and writers: tools that make a difference in comprehending and constructing texts
27. Understanding the "testing genre": preparing students for high-quality performance
28. Making teaching decisions using continuous assessment
Struggling readers and writers: teaching that makes a difference.
Notes:
"Featuring 1,000 leveled books."--Cover.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.
ISBN:
9780325003108
0325003106
OCLC:
45563351
Publisher Number:
99969104087

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