Classroom Resources

This first-of-its-kind, practical, spiral-bound tool for all teachers and administrators is another significant contribution to the field of education from literacy leaders Irene C. Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell. The Literacy Quick Guide is your go-to-guide for responsive literacy teaching.

Proficient readers and writers display recognizable behaviors at every phase of literacy learning. When teachers notice, teach, and support these behaviors, they link assessment to responsive teaching. This indispensable literacy tool identifies the behaviors that demonstrate thinking and understanding within, beyond, and about a text. These behaviors are described as continua of learning across eight instructional contexts.

• The Literacy Continuum, Paperback
• The Literacy Continuum, Digital Edition
• Continuo de la lectoescritura (NEW)
• Continuo de la lectoescritura totalmente en español (NEW)

Explore what The Fountas & Pinnell Literacy Continuum is, what's included, how it's implemented, and gain access to samplers, research, webinars, and more.

You will find that this essential guide, presented in an easy-to-use chart form, is a critical companion to The Literacy Continuum, Expanded Edition. You will be able to hone your observations of students’ literacy behaviors with this indispensable tool, which combines the behaviors and understandings from the Phonics continuum with the specific times (early, middle, or late in grades PreK–8) appropriate for each one to be introduced and then to be under students’ control. In addition, instructional language and a multitude of specific examples appear exclusively in this guide. Use this resource to guide your students in an exploration of letter and word learning.

Respected literacy leaders, Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell, hand-selected, leveled, and organized collections and genre sets according to their F&P Text Level Gradient™ using the popular PM Readers. Fountas & Pinnell Select provides the opportunity to practice fluency, promote discussion for deeper comprehension, develop and extend vocabulary, and foster reading success with increasingly challenging texts.

Explore what a Select Collection and Genre Set is, what's included, and how it's implemented.

The Fountas & Pinnell Leveled Books Website is the only official online source for titles leveled according to the F&P Text Level Gradient™. With over 50,000 titles and growing, each title has been analyzed and precisely leveled by Fountas and Pinnell and their team of expert levelers. This subscription-based website is searchable by key information such as title, author, publisher, F&P text level, genre, word count, and keywords.

Fountas & Pinnell Prompting Guide Part 1 and Part 2, available in both English and Spanish, contain precise language to use when teaching, prompting for, and reinforcing effective strategic actions in reading and writing.

The Fountas & Pinnell Genre Prompting Guides are comprehensive tools used to explore fiction and nonfiction genres with students. Each prompting guide contains precise language for teaching readers how to focus their thinking and understand genre through inquiry.  

The Fountas & Pinnell Prompting Guide Part 1 and 2 Apps, available in English and Spanish, and the Fountas & Pinnell Genre Prompting Guide for Fiction and Nonfiction Apps are easy-access digital tools that can be used to enhance literacy teaching power across a wide range of instructional contexts to teach, prompt for, and reinforce effective strategic actions.

Designed to encourage reflection, inquiry, critical thinking, and dialogue about reading, the Fountas & Pinnell Reader’s Notebooks help students account for what they read through drawing and writing as they explore and convey their understanding. Available in English and Spanish, in packs of 5 notebooks or 25 notebooks.

English Editions:

• Reader's Notebook: Primary (Grades K-2)
• Reader's Notebook: Intermediate (Grades 2-4)
• Reader's Notebook: Advanced (Grades 4-8)

Spanish Editions:

• Cuaderno del lector (Reader's Notebook): Primary (Grades K-2)
• Cuaderno del lector (Reader's Notebook): Intermediate (Grades 2-4)
• Cuaderno del lector (Reader's Notebook): Advanced (Grades 4-8)

NEW from Fountas and Pinnell: an enhanced edition of their Phonics Lessons entitled Phonics, Spelling, and Word Study System. Now available for kindergarten through grade 6. Pique students' curiosity with a systematic instruction in how oral and written language "works." The Fountas & Pinnell Phonics, Spelling, and Word Study System contains explicit lessons for whole-group instruction and small-group application that help students attend to, learn about, and efficiently use sounds, letters, and words.

These companions to The Fountas & Pinnell Phonics, Spelling, and Word Study System, Grades K-2, use poetry to its full advantage to expand children’s oral language capabilities, develop phonological awareness, and teach about the intricacies of print.

These illustrated collections of poems, songs, and rhymes fill children with language, ideas, and imagery, which will help them use and enjoy the oral and written word.