Publication: Guiding Readers and Writers Grades 3-6: Teaching Comprehension, Genre, and Content Literacy

• Pinnell, Gay Su
• Fountas, Irene C.

LCCN: 00-712760

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.