http://heinemann.com/forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=616 Teacher's Lounge - Fountas & Pinnell - Instructional VS Independent Levels-Which to tell? - Messages en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Jitbit AspNetForum Wed, 07 Mar 2012 16:32:58 GMT Wed, 07 Mar 2012 16:32:58 GMT http://heinemann.com/forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=616
Fountas and Pinnell state on page 126 of When Readers Struggle, "Instructional level texts are the rungs in a ladder of text that supports readers in taking on new texts that stretch their capabilities. Careful sequencing of instructional level texts assures that each rung is not so far above the next that readers' processing breaks down." You are trained to understand this. Parents don't have this understanding of levels, so you control that students are reading independent-level texts by the books that you send home with them to read.

If your district reports instructional levels, you can explain during conferences that this is a level their child can read with your help so the books that you will be sending home will be at a lower level so they can practice reading fluently.]]> Wed, 07 Mar 2012 16:32:58 GMT http://heinemann.com/forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=616 Wed, 07 Mar 2012 13:19:31 GMT