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As a first year teacher, thus far I am absolutely in love with The Continuum of Literacy Learning. My school purchased copies of the book for every class to go along with the new framework for literacy our district is doing as well as the school-wideAs a first year teacher, thus far I am absolutely in love with The Continuum of Literacy Learning. My school purchased copies of the book for every class to go along with the new framework for literacy our district is doing as well as the school-wide implementation of the Fountas and Pinnell literacy benchmarking assessment. I brought it home over a break from school just to be the dutiful teacher and look over it. When I began looking through the book, I found it impressively interesting! Fountas and Pinnell offer concrete goals and methods for teachers to use in a variety of literacy learning experiences (guided reading, shared reading, etc). Whereas many literacy books are very broad and general, The Continuum of Literacy Learning targets specific goals and strategies for particular levels. In most areas of literacy, the focus is more general- relating to a grade level as a whole. However, the guided reading section targets every applicable reading level of the Fountas and Pinnell assessment tool (and for those who teach in schools that do not have Fountas and Pinnell, there are many websites that show how the various reading leveling tools correlate to one another so one can fairly closely approximate a students' level). Using the Continuum of Literacy Learning, the mystery of planning literacy lesson plans is a lot less of a stress point. One can easily reference the book to figure out possible goals that are appropriate for the students. This is one resource that I hope to have at my fingertips for quite a while. I highly recommend it to teachers of any experience level....more
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