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Guiding readers and writers, grades 3-6 : teaching comprehension, genre, and content literacy / Irene C. Fountas, Gay Su Pinnell.

Fountas, Irene C. (Author). Pinnell, Gay Su. (Added Author).
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The Center Library 372.41 Fou 2001 146365 Stacks Available -

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  • ISBN: 0325003106
  • ISBN: 9780325003108
  • Physical Description: 648 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
  • Publisher: Portsmouth, N.H. : Heinemann, ©2001.

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General Note: "Featuring 1,000 leveled books."--Cover.
Formatted Contents Note: I: Breakthrough to literacy: powerful teaching for all students -- 1. Becoming lifelong readers and writers: the goal of the intermediate literacy program -- 2. Achieving literacy with a three-block framework: language & word study, reading, and writing -- 3. Investigating and using language: the language and word study design -- 4. Becoming joyful readers: the reading workshop -- 5. Developing accomplished writers: the writing workshop -- 6. Making it work: organizing and managing time, space, and resources -- Struggling readers and writers: teaching that makes a difference -- II: Independent reading -- 7. Encouraging independent reading -- 8. Planning effective minilessons and conferences -- 9. Getting started: the first twenty days of independent reading -- 10. Writing to explore meaning: reader's notebook -- Struggling readers and writers: teaching that makes a difference -- III: Guided reading -- 11. Understanding guided reading -- 12. Planning for guided reading -- 13. Dynamic grouping for effective teaching in guided reading -- 14. Selected, introducing, and using leveled texts -- Struggling readers and writers: teaching that makes a difference -- IV: Literature study -- 15. Discovering literature study: the essential elements -- 16. Putting literature study in action -- 17. Responding to literature: multiple paths to deeper meaning -- Struggling readers and writers: teaching that makes a difference -- V: Comprehension and word analysis -- 18. Understanding the reading process -- 19. Teaching for comprehending written text: across the language and literacy framework -- 20. Teaching for sustaining strategies in guided reading -- 21. Teaching for connecting and expanding strategies in guided reading -- 22. Teaching for word-solving: phonics, spelling, and vocabulary -- Struggling readers and writers: teaching that makes a difference -- VI: The reading and writing connection -- 23. Teaching genre and content literacy: exploring fiction and nonfiction texts -- 24. Creating and poetry workshop: reading, writing and the arts -- 25. Exploring the writer's terrain: writer talks, writer's notebooks, and investigations -- 26. Supporting readers and writers: tools that make a difference in comprehending and constructing texts -- 27. Understanding the "testing genre": preparing students for high-quality performance -- 28. Making teaching decisions using continuous assessment -- Struggling readers and writers: teaching that makes a difference.
Summary, etc.: Provides major components for an elementary literacy program, including the teaching of comprehension and word analysis, a 1,000 title book list, and suggestions for struggling readers and writers.
Subject: Language arts (Elementary)
Reading (Elementary)
English language > Composition and exercises > Study and teaching.
English language > Composition and exercises > Study and teaching.
Language arts (Elementary)
Reading (Elementary)
Language arts (Elementary)
Reading.
English language > Composition and exercises > Study and teaching.
Summary: Provides major components for an elementary literacy program, including the teaching of comprehension and word analysis, a 1,000 title book list, and suggestions for struggling readers and writers.

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