The F&P Professional Books and Multimedia Series
Guided Reading Videotapes
Irene Fountas , Gay Su Pinnell
(PREPACK)
Guided Reading in action. In this two-tape video set, join Fountas and Pinnell as they highlight effective guided reading lessons and conduct lessons with children. Essential Elements , the first video in the set, lets you watch guided reading lessons as they unfold. You'll observe how teachers introduce a text, support children as they read orally and silently, discuss text meaning, use "teaching points" to reinforce... more
Word Study
Irene Fountas , Gay Su Pinnell
(PREPACK)
Word Matters Meets Phonics Lessons! View the essentials of learning about letters, sounds, and words in the context of a high-quality literacy program —components of Gay Su Pinnell and Irene C. Fountas' first book on phonics and spelling, Word Matters —based on lessons from Pinnell and Fountas' new series, Phonics Lessons: Letters, Words, and How They Work . Phonics & Spelling Minilessons ,... more
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Guided Reading [DVD]
Irene Fountas , Gay Su Pinnell
(DVD)
See Guided Reading in action. Join Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell as they highlight effective guided reading lessons and conduct lessons with children. Essential Elements, the first part of the DVD, lets you watch guided reading lessons as they unfold. You'll observe how teachers introduce a text, support children as they read orally and silently, discuss text meaning, use "teaching points" to reinforce effective... more
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Word Study [DVD]
Irene Fountas , Gay Su Pinnell
(DVD)
View the essentials of learning about letters, sounds, and words in the context of a high-quality literacy program—components of Gay Su Pinnell and Irene C. Fountas' first book on phonics and spelling, Word Matters and the basis of the lessons in from Pinnell and Fountas' series, Phonics Lessons: Letters, Words, and How They Work . In part one, Phonics & Spelling Minilessons, watch minilessons as they're presented... more
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Classroom Management [DVD]
Irene Fountas , Gay Su Pinnell
(DVD)
Now, with the help of Fountas and Pinnell's Classroom Management you can see for yourself how to create, organize, and manage a classroom environment that encourages and supports independent literacy learning. Part one, Managing the Day, demonstrates how one first-grade teacher has successfully set up her classroom. You'll see how good organization enables her to flow whole-group, small-group, and independent student... more
Classroom Management
Irene Fountas , Gay Su Pinnell
(PREPACK)
Now, with the help of Fountas and Pinnell, you can see for yourself how to create, organize, and manage a classroom environment that encourages and supports independent literacy learning. Managing the Day , the first of this two-tape set, demonstrates how one first-grade teacher has successfully set up her classroom. You'll see how good organization enables her to flow whole-group, small-group, and independent student work... more
Teaching for Comprehending and Fluency
Irene Fountas , Gay Su Pinnell
(BOOK WITH DVD)
Book study groups and professional learning communities, click here to save 15% when you order 15 copies of Teaching for Comprehending and Fluency, K–8 . Teaching for Comprehending and Fluency, K–8 is the next new breakthrough from Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell. Offering a complete picture of how to skillfully teach meaning making and fluency within any instructional context, Teaching for Comprehending and Fluency,... more
Guiding Readers and Writers
Irene Fountas , Gay Su Pinnell
(Paperback)
Authors Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell have already helped hundreds of thousands of K-3 teachers engage, inform, and inspire early readers and writers. Now, with Guiding Readers and Writers (Grades 3-6) , Fountas and Pinnell support teachers on the next leg of the literacy journey, addressing the unique challenges of teaching upper elementary students. The product of many years of work with classroom teachers, Guiding Readers... more
Guided Reading
Irene Fountas , Gay Su Pinnell
(Paperback)
This is an important book for teachers, administrators, prospective teachers, college professors, or anyone seeking to provide quality teaching to children in their first years of schooling. —Harvard Educational Review Among the many changes to sweep American literacy education has been a move toward whole class instruction. Nonetheless, children still bring to literacy a wide range of experiences and competencies.... more
Word Matters
Irene Fountas , Gay Su Pinnell
(Paperback)
In 1996, Gay Su Pinnell and Irene Fountas presented Guided Reading , the most comprehensive guided reading resource ever published. Hailed for its practical, systematic approach, the book showed hundreds of thousands of teachers how to address the needs of the whole classroom as well as individual readers. Now, with the publication of Word Matters , Pinnell and Fountas offer K-3 teachers the same unparalleled support, this time... more
When Readers Struggle
Irene Fountas , Gay Su Pinnell
(Paperback)
When Readers Struggle: Teaching That Works is a comprehensive resource on struggling readers. It’s filled with specific teaching ideas for helping children in kindergarten through Grade 3 who are having difficulty in reading and writing. We want these young students to think and behave like effective readers who not only solve words skillfully but comprehend deeply and read fluently. To achieve our goal, we need to... more
Interactive Writing
Andrea McCarrier , Irene Fountas , Gay Su Pinnell
(Paperback)
Children want to make their mark—on paper, on any surface, in life. But the difficulties of transferring words to paper can be daunting enough to drown out even the most enthusiastic voice. Enter interactive writing, a new instructional approach in which teachers and children collaborate to produce a written text. Just as Fountas and Pinnell did in their best-selling Guided Reading , the authors offer powerful first teaching... more
Leveled Books, K-8
Irene Fountas , Gay Su Pinnell
(Paperback)
For ten years and over two classic books, Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell have described how to analyze the characteristics of texts and select just-the-right book to use for guided reading instruction. Now, for the first time, all of their thinking and research has been updated and brought together into Leveled Books (K–8) to form the ultimate guide to choosing and using books from kindergarten through middle school. Fountas... more
Voices on Word Matters
Edited By Irene Fountas , Edited By Gay Su Pinnell
(Paperback)
If you're interested in learning more about implementing an effective phonics and spelling program, this follow-up to Word Matters provides all the information. This edited collection is a rich extension of Fountas and Pinnell's instructional system for word study, featuring chapters by the field's most important scholars and practitioners. These educators explore letter and word learning in a variety of reading, writing,... more
The Fountas and Pinnell Prompting Guide, Part 1: Spanish Edition
Irene Fountas , Gay Su Pinnell
(Paperback)
Spanish Version The Fountas & Pinnell Prompting Guide, Part 1: Spanish Edition is a flip-chart tool that you can use to enhance your teaching power in guided reading lessons; intervention lessons; shared reading; independent reading; reading and writing conferences; and dictated, independent, and interactive writing. If you are a classroom teacher, reading specialist, literacy teacher, Reading Recovery teacher, or literacy... more
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