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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.

This brochure provides an At-A-Glance look at Leveled Literacy Intervention (LLI)—a powerful, short-term intervention, that provides daily intensive small-group instruction, which supplements classroom literacy teaching. LLI turns struggling readers into successful readers with engaging leveled books and fast-paced, systematically designed lessons. Learn more!

This brochure provides an At-A-Glance look at Leveled Literacy Intervention (LLI)—a powerful, short-term intervention, that provides daily intensive small-group instruction, which supplements classroom literacy teaching. LLI turns struggling readers into successful readers with engaging leveled books and fast-paced, systematically designed lessons. Learn more!

Use this printable order form of all available Fountas & Pinnell Literacy™ resources for your purchasing convenience.  Transform your literacy instruction with insightful assessment, effective intervention, practical professional books, and essential classroom resources from literacy leaders Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell.

PLEASE NOTE: All prices and publication dates subject to change. Call or visit Heinemann.com for current pricing.

Use this printable order form of all available Fountas & Pinnell Literacy™ resources for your purchasing convenience.  Transform your literacy instruction with insightful assessment, effective intervention, practical professional books, and essential classroom resources from literacy leaders Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell.

PLEASE NOTE: All prices and publication dates subject to change. Call or visit Heinemann.com for current pricing.

Use this printable order form of all available Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ PreK-6 resources for your purchasing convenience.

Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ (FPC) is a cohesive, multi-text approach to literacy instruction for all students in grades PreK–6. The System is designed to support whole-group, small-group and independent learning opportunities including: interactive read-aloud, reading minilessons, shared reading, phonics/spelling/word study lessons, guided reading, book clubs, and independent reading collections.  Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ is rich with authentic texts, lessons or conferring cards, minilessons and professional tools & learning for a systematic, transformative approach to literacy instruction. 

Lift students' learning beyond the walls of the classroom with texts and a blueprint for teaching that create authentic experiences in reading, thinking, talking, writing, and reflecting to realize what it truly means to live a literate life.

PLEASE NOTE: All prices and publication dates subject to change. Call or visit Heinemann.com for current pricing.

Use this printable order form of all available Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ PreK-6 resources for your purchasing convenience.

Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ (FPC) is a cohesive, multi-text approach to literacy instruction for all students in grades PreK–6. The System is designed to support whole-group, small-group and independent learning opportunities including: interactive read-aloud, reading minilessons, shared reading, phonics/spelling/word study lessons, guided reading, book clubs, and independent reading collections.  Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ is rich with authentic texts, lessons or conferring cards, minilessons and professional tools & learning for a systematic, transformative approach to literacy instruction. 

Lift students' learning beyond the walls of the classroom with texts and a blueprint for teaching that create authentic experiences in reading, thinking, talking, writing, and reflecting to realize what it truly means to live a literate life.

PLEASE NOTE: All prices and publication dates subject to change. Call or visit Heinemann.com for current pricing.

The Progress Monitoring by Instructional Text Reading Level chart is intended to provide reasonable expectations for 10 months of the school year. School districts should adjust the expectations to align with their school/district requirements and professional teacher judgment.

The Progress Monitoring by Instructional Text Reading Level chart is intended to provide reasonable expectations for 10 months of the school year. School districts should adjust the expectations to align with their school/district requirements and professional teacher judgment.