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In Literacy Beginnings, Third Edition, Irene C. Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell bring a refreshed perspective along with their characteristically rich, comprehensive, and practical insights to the frontier of early literacy. Now grounded in research and their own extensive experience in prekindergarten classrooms they demonstrate how to:

• Create a classroom community that is play-based, and prepares children for the literacy-rich world in which they live
• Promote constructive learning through inquiry
• Recognize the language and literacy behaviors and understandings that are appropriate instructional goals for preschoolers
• Use powerful and playful ways to guide children to learn about letters, sounds, and words
• Support emergent readers and writers through an array of literacy activities.

This comprehensive volume, now with refreshed content and a four-color design, is full of practical resources like familiar children’s songs, rhymes, and poems and related activities; theme-based text sets and book lists; inquiry projects; and thirty-five simple, generative lessons that support children in their discovery and exploration of language, reading, and writing. It also includes the prekindergarten continuum, which describes the trajectory of literacy learning and development of competencies for these young, emerging readers and writers.

In Literacy Beginnings, Third Edition, Irene C. Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell bring a refreshed perspective along with their characteristically rich, comprehensive, and practical insights to the frontier of early literacy. Now grounded in research and their own extensive experience in prekindergarten classrooms they demonstrate how to:

• Create a classroom community that is play-based, and prepares children for the literacy-rich world in which they live
• Promote constructive learning through inquiry
• Recognize the language and literacy behaviors and understandings that are appropriate instructional goals for preschoolers
• Use powerful and playful ways to guide children to learn about letters, sounds, and words
• Support emergent readers and writers through an array of literacy activities.

This comprehensive volume, now with refreshed content and a four-color design, is full of practical resources like familiar children’s songs, rhymes, and poems and related activities; theme-based text sets and book lists; inquiry projects; and thirty-five simple, generative lessons that support children in their discovery and exploration of language, reading, and writing. It also includes the prekindergarten continuum, which describes the trajectory of literacy learning and development of competencies for these young, emerging readers and writers.

Fountas and Pinnell bring their unrivaled expertise, encompassing more than twenty-five years of research and classroom observation of literacy development, to the timely expansion and completion of the Continuo de la lectoescritura, Grados PreK–8. Use this indispensable literacy tool to guide your assessment, activate responsive teaching, and support your Spanish-speaking students’ language and literacy growth.

• Inclusion of NEW literacy goals and characteristics of texts for grados 3–8 and text levels O–Z
• Expanded behaviors and examples across the continua
• First appearance of a behavior, goal or text characteristic is indicated by a red bullet
• Clear organization of and explicit links to the Systems of Strategic Actions.

This must-have resource provides a vision of what Spanish-speaking students need to be able to do as competent readers, writers, and language users, and informs every aspect of your literacy teaching.

Fountas and Pinnell bring their unrivaled expertise, encompassing more than twenty-five years of research and classroom observation of literacy development, to the timely expansion and completion of the Continuo de la lectoescritura, Grados PreK–8. Use this indispensable literacy tool to guide your assessment, activate responsive teaching, and support your Spanish-speaking students’ language and literacy growth.

• Inclusion of NEW literacy goals and characteristics of texts for grados 3–8 and text levels O–Z
• Expanded behaviors and examples across the continua
• First appearance of a behavior, goal or text characteristic is indicated by a red bullet
• Clear organization of and explicit links to the Systems of Strategic Actions.

This must-have resource provides a vision of what Spanish-speaking students need to be able to do as competent readers, writers, and language users, and informs every aspect of your literacy teaching.

Fountas and Pinnell bring their unrivaled expertise, encompassing more than twenty-five years of research and classroom observation of literacy development, to the timely expansion and completion of the Continuo de la lectoescritura totalmente en español, Grados PreK–8. Use this indispensable literacy tool to guide your assessment, activate responsive teaching, and support your Spanish-speaking students’ language and literacy growth.

• Inclusion of NEW literacy goals and characteristics of texts for grados 3–8 and text levels O–Z
• Expanded behaviors and examples across the continua
• First appearance of a behavior, goal or text characteristic is indicated by a red bullet
• Clear organization of and explicit links to the Systems of Strategic Actions.

This must-have resource provides a vision of what Spanish-speaking students need to be able to do as competent readers, writers, and language users, and informs every aspect of your literacy teaching.

Fountas and Pinnell bring their unrivaled expertise, encompassing more than twenty-five years of research and classroom observation of literacy development, to the timely expansion and completion of the Continuo de la lectoescritura totalmente en español, Grados PreK–8. Use this indispensable literacy tool to guide your assessment, activate responsive teaching, and support your Spanish-speaking students’ language and literacy growth.

• Inclusion of NEW literacy goals and characteristics of texts for grados 3–8 and text levels O–Z
• Expanded behaviors and examples across the continua
• First appearance of a behavior, goal or text characteristic is indicated by a red bullet
• Clear organization of and explicit links to the Systems of Strategic Actions.

This must-have resource provides a vision of what Spanish-speaking students need to be able to do as competent readers, writers, and language users, and informs every aspect of your literacy teaching.

This is the source book for guided reading and related literacy instruction in the intermediate grades. It is a comprehensive and easy to use how-to guide to implementation and teaching.

Our sample includes:

• The book's introduction
• Erica's Day, which follows a student's literacy learning across a school day
• Chapter 1: Becoming Lifelong Readers and Writers.

This is the source book for guided reading and related literacy instruction in the intermediate grades. It is a comprehensive and easy to use how-to guide to implementation and teaching.

Our sample includes:

• The book's introduction
• Erica's Day, which follows a student's literacy learning across a school day
• Chapter 1: Becoming Lifelong Readers and Writers.

This study guide for Literacy Beginnings: A Prekindergarten Handbook provides suggestions for a series of professional development sessions for instructors, staff developers, literacy coaches, and study groups based on Literacy Beginnings: A Prekindergarten Handbook. The book provides detailed information about instructional practices that educators can use to ensure literacy learning and the development of emerging readers and writers.

The study guide contains 15 modules which vary in length from one to three hours. The modules can be used flexibly and in any order.

This study guide for Literacy Beginnings: A Prekindergarten Handbook provides suggestions for a series of professional development sessions for instructors, staff developers, literacy coaches, and study groups based on Literacy Beginnings: A Prekindergarten Handbook. The book provides detailed information about instructional practices that educators can use to ensure literacy learning and the development of emerging readers and writers.

The study guide contains 15 modules which vary in length from one to three hours. The modules can be used flexibly and in any order.

In this archived webinar, Fountas & Pinnell-trained consultant, Dr. Kathy Northcutt, helps you connect the independent writing students do in the Fountas & Pinnell Reader’s Notebook to guided reading.

You’ll see how the Notebooks provide structure and space that allow:

• readers to think on paper within, beyond, and about the text
• writers to try nonfiction genres as they respond to what they read
• teachers to discover a simple, powerful tool for ongoing assessment.

In this archived webinar, Fountas & Pinnell-trained consultant, Dr. Kathy Northcutt, helps you connect the independent writing students do in the Fountas & Pinnell Reader’s Notebook to guided reading.

You’ll see how the Notebooks provide structure and space that allow:

• readers to think on paper within, beyond, and about the text
• writers to try nonfiction genres as they respond to what they read
• teachers to discover a simple, powerful tool for ongoing assessment.