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 : Teaching for Comprehending and Fluency: Thinking, Talking, and Writing About Reading, K-8

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 372.47
EAN: 9780325003085
Edition: Pap/Dvdr
ISBN: 0325003084
Label: Heinemann
Manufacturer: Heinemann
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 608
Publication Date: April 25, 2006
Publisher: Heinemann
Studio: Heinemann




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Teaching for Comprehending and Fluency, K - 8 is the next new breakthrough from Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell. Offering a complete picture of how to skillfully teach meaning making and fluency within any instructional context, Teaching for Comprehending and Fluency, K - 8, supports you with frameworks for high-quality instruction that describe appropriate expectations for comprehending, fluency, and vocabulary development.



Fountas and Pinnell's teaching and assessment frames will give you a firm understanding of your students' reading levels: where they are, where they should be, and what they need to do to get there - for any reader, in any grade, at any moment. You'll also gain insight about the specific demands that fiction and nonfiction texts place on readers and about how effective readers think within a text, beyond a text, and about a text to gain rich understandings. As you learn about how the characteristics of texts help or hinder a reader's improvement, you'll find effective teaching strategies for:

  • comprehending, word solving, fluency, and vocabulary
  • writing about reading in a variety of genres and using writing as a tool for thinking
  • using guided reading with fiction and nonfiction books
  • discussing books during interactive read-aloud and literature study
  • taking part in shared and performance reading.
Fountas and Pinnell's teaching tips, smart strategies, proven classroom ideas, and professional-learning opportunities will lead the way as you discover how to help readers develop effective systems of strategic actions over time. You'll also learn how to take running records of reading behavior to assess comprehension and fluency then use those assessments to inform and differentiate your teaching.

In addition, Fountas and Pinnell have also added a dynamic companion resource to Teaching for Comprehending and Fluency, K - 8: a DVD containing short, focused video segments that illustrate concepts from the book and demonstrate exemplar teaching in real classroom settings. The DVD is also a repository of useful materials to support your work - including blackline masters, forms, checklists, and numerous other classroom tools.



Fountas and Pinnell have developed detailed teaching guides for Teaching for Comprehending and Fluency. Perfect for staff development leaders or teacher educators, these guides offer all the specifics on leading a professional development program or preservice course on comphrension instruction with Teaching for Comprehending and Fluency as the core text.



Each of the guides is written to address a specific course of study and is available for free download along with its accompanying course syllabus:

  • Professional Development Program:
    Indiv Study/Group Study (20 sessions)
  • Preservice Teachers:
    One Semester Course (14-week college/university course)
  • Preservice Teachers:
    One Quarter Course (11-week college/university course)
  • Graduate Students:
    One Semester Course (14-week college/university course)
  • Graduate Students:
    One Quarter Course (11-week college/university course)
Click here to download any of the Teaching for Comprehending and Fluency teaching guides and syllabi now.





Discover powerful ways to help your students read with deep understanding and fluency. Read Teaching for Comprehending and Fluency, K - 8 and be part of the big breakthrough in literacy instruction.





Customer Reviews
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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Perfect condition!
thank you for the book, it was in great condition and will work well for my class!



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - A great text
This is an excellent book for anyone who is in the teaching profession, and especially those who teach beginning readers.



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Wonderful Reading Resource to build on Guiding Readers and Writers
Let me start by saying this book builds off of Guiding Readers and Writers, also by Fountas and Pinnell. If you haven't yet invested in that book and you teach reading or writing to grades 3-12, that's where you want to start. This book will not be nearly as helpful until you have read and engaged in the teaching strategies laid out in Guiding Readers and Writers. However, if you are currently looking to build and add to your literature circles and your reading and writing workshops, this is the ... Read More



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Great book!!
This book was in excellent condition and just as described. I received it in a timely manner and am very happy with my purchase.



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Excellent Condition
This book arrived in excellent condition and in a timely fashion. I was able to use it before I went back to school and I need it to teach elementary and middle school aged students in the fall. Thank you very much.







 






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