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