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The Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ Guided Reading Collection

Unlock the Power of Literacy with Powerful, Small-Group Reading Instruction

Boost literacy skills and student engagement through small-group reading experiences that include daily opportunities for integrated phonics practice. Move students forward by strengthening students' reading foundations with expertly crafted original texts and easy-to-teach lessons designed for individualized instruction.

During Guided Reading, students read an exciting, thought-provoking, original text, participate in group discussion, practice phonics and foundational skills, and write about their reading. Guided Reading targets individuals' learning needs and aids them on their journey to becoming independent readers and writers.


Introducing Guided Reading, Second Edition (K-3)



What is Guided Reading?

The FPC Guided Reading Collection is implemented with small-groups of students. Children read a teacher-selected text in a small group while the teacher provides explicit teaching and support for reading increasingly challenging texts. These texts are at the children's instructional reading level and the children read the whole text. In guided reading teaching is responsive to individual student strengths and needs.

Who is it for?

The Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ Guided Reading Collection is for the classroom teacher who wants to expand and refine children's reading and writing powers in grades K—6. This context is implemented in a small-group setting for teachers to support each reader's development of their systems of strategic actions for processing new texts at increasingly challenging levels of difficulty.

What is inside?

Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ Guided Reading Collection Guide
A brief guide that provides an overview of the components and implementation of the FPC Guided Reading Collection.

Guided Reading Books
1300 original titles (6 copies of each title) that span levels A—Z on the F&P Text Level Gradient™. At the heart of FPCare the highest-quality leveled books that captivate and engage the hearts and minds of all students in the classroom.

Guided Reading Lesson Folders
A lesson folder per guided reading title to support teachers in providing high-quality, cutting-edge instruction that engages and extends students' reading, writing, and language skills.

FPL Digital
A digital classroom experience with:

  • Lesson resources
  • PDFs of each lesson
  • Video Library
  • Teacher-facing platform for teaching and prepping
  • Student-facing eBooks, games, and assignments

Other Digital Resources

  • FPC Guided Reading Reading Record App for iPads™
Components of the Guided Reading Collection

How is it implemented?

The FPC Guided Reading Collection is implemented with small-groups of students. Children read a teacher-selected text in a small group while the teacher provides explicit teaching and support for reading increasingly challenging texts. These texts are at the children's instructional reading level and the children read the whole text. In guided reading teaching is responsive to individual student strengths and needs.


Guided Reading Resources

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