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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.

Learn how The Literacy Continuum is more in-depth, more intuitive, and more essential than ever.

• REDISCOVER the indispensable tool for targeted teaching
• RECOGNIZE detailed evidence of literacy learning
• REINFORCE proficient literacy behaviors
• REORGANIZED and REDESIGNED.

Learn how The Literacy Continuum is more in-depth, more intuitive, and more essential than ever.

• REDISCOVER the indispensable tool for targeted teaching
• RECOGNIZE detailed evidence of literacy learning
• REINFORCE proficient literacy behaviors
• REORGANIZED and REDESIGNED.

This digital edition is designed to duplicate the layout and pagination of the print edition, allowing you to easily switch back and forth between the print and digital versions using the same page references.

This sample includes:

• Cover
• Table of Contents
• How to Use The Continuum, Digital Edition
• Introduction
• Interactive Read-Aloud and Literature Discussion
  • Introduction
  • PreK Selecting Texts and Goals

This digital edition is designed to duplicate the layout and pagination of the print edition, allowing you to easily switch back and forth between the print and digital versions using the same page references.

This sample includes:

• Cover
• Table of Contents
• How to Use The Continuum, Digital Edition
• Introduction
• Interactive Read-Aloud and Literature Discussion
  • Introduction
  • PreK Selecting Texts and Goals

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.

Download the K–8+ System Overview and Samplers to read about LLI’s research-based characteristics, and how to implement LLI to achieve maximum effectiveness.

Each System Sampler includes:

• an introduction to the principles on which Leveled Literacy Intervention rests
• the many features and components of the system
• an outline of the four types of lesson frameworks along with a complete sample lesson for each type
• two sample student books

Download the K–8+ System Overview and Samplers to read about LLI’s research-based characteristics, and how to implement LLI to achieve maximum effectiveness.

Each System Sampler includes:

• an introduction to the principles on which Leveled Literacy Intervention rests
• the many features and components of the system
• an outline of the four types of lesson frameworks along with a complete sample lesson for each type
• two sample student books

Download the Sistema de evaluación de la lectura, Grados K–2, ©2019 (Niveles A–N) sampler to learn more about this one-on-one, comprehensive assessment for Spanish-speaking students. Based on the Fountas & Pinnell Benchmark Assessment System, Third Edition (BAS) and specially reconstructed for Spanish in collaboration with bilingual literacy experts, SEL enables teachers in bilingual, dual language, and immersion classrooms to identify students’ reading levels (A–N)  with accuracy and reliability. 

The SEL sampler includes a comprehensive look at the assessment system including a case study and two sample assessment books.

Download the Sistema de evaluación de la lectura, Grados K–2, ©2019 (Niveles A–N) sampler to learn more about this one-on-one, comprehensive assessment for Spanish-speaking students. Based on the Fountas & Pinnell Benchmark Assessment System, Third Edition (BAS) and specially reconstructed for Spanish in collaboration with bilingual literacy experts, SEL enables teachers in bilingual, dual language, and immersion classrooms to identify students’ reading levels (A–N)  with accuracy and reliability. 

The SEL sampler includes a comprehensive look at the assessment system including a case study and two sample assessment books.

Download the Leveled Literacy Intervention Gold System sampler, grade 4, to read about LLI’s research-based characteristics, and how to implement LLI to achieve maximum effectiveness.

System Samplers include:

• an introduction to the principles on which Leveled Literacy Intervention rests
• the many features and components of the system
• fifteen key characteristics of effective literacy interventions that are essential for intermediate and middle grade students who need to improve their reading competencies
• an outline of the four types of lesson frameworks along with a complete sample lesson for each type
• two sample student books

Download the Leveled Literacy Intervention Gold System sampler, grade 4, to read about LLI’s research-based characteristics, and how to implement LLI to achieve maximum effectiveness.

System Samplers include:

• an introduction to the principles on which Leveled Literacy Intervention rests
• the many features and components of the system
• fifteen key characteristics of effective literacy interventions that are essential for intermediate and middle grade students who need to improve their reading competencies
• an outline of the four types of lesson frameworks along with a complete sample lesson for each type
• two sample student books

Download this sampler to rediscover Fountas & Pinnell’s classic Spanish resource in a NEW Expanded Edition. 

(Re)Discover Continuo de la lectoescritura, Expanded Edition © 2019 for Grados PreK–2 to:

• elevate your language and literacy expertise
• develop an understanding of the demands of texts on readers
• build your understanding of the reading and writing process and how it changes over time
• hone your observation of students’ literacy behaviors
• teach toward student integration of the Systems of Strategic Actions
• articulate the literacy curriculum within and across grade levels
• activate the responsive teaching that meets students where they are and brings them forward with intention and precision
• build professional learning opportunities with colleagues
• create a common vision and common language for literacy in your school.

Download this sampler to rediscover Fountas & Pinnell’s classic Spanish resource in a NEW Expanded Edition. 

(Re)Discover Continuo de la lectoescritura, Expanded Edition © 2019 for Grados PreK–2 to:

• elevate your language and literacy expertise
• develop an understanding of the demands of texts on readers
• build your understanding of the reading and writing process and how it changes over time
• hone your observation of students’ literacy behaviors
• teach toward student integration of the Systems of Strategic Actions
• articulate the literacy curriculum within and across grade levels
• activate the responsive teaching that meets students where they are and brings them forward with intention and precision
• build professional learning opportunities with colleagues
• create a common vision and common language for literacy in your school.