Most of the principles of learning cannot be pinpointed at one point in time or even one year. As they move along in grades and levels, students expand their systems of strategic actions by meeting the demands of increasingly complex texts.Īs you work with the continua related to reading, you will see a gradual increase in the complexity of the kinds of thinking that readers do. All of these strategic actions should be going on in the readers’ heads simultaneously as they process texts. The behaviors are organized according to the Systems of Strategic Actions for thinking within the text, beyond the text, and about the text. Within these four continua, you will find a list of behaviors and understandings that students should be showing at each grade or reading level on the F&P Text Level Gradient™.
Here’s how:įour of the eight continua address reading: interactive read-aloud, shared and performance reading, guided reading, and writing about reading. This essential tool is comprised of eight continua, each focusing on a different aspect of Fountas and Pinnell’s learning and literacy instructional framework contributing in different yet complementary ways to students’ reading, writing, and language processes. Your observations show you where their literacy skills sit on the "map," and will lead you to the correct route to take for the next step in instruction. It’s meant to help guide your assessment through observation, which would then inform your teaching. It’s a tool to help you meet students where they are and lead them to where they need to be. Think of The Literacy Continuum as a roadmap. It is THE essential tool for elevating your language and literacy expertise. You were right about one thing: it is not a regular professional book. You thought you were picking up a regular professional book, but what you found was a dense, flurry of words and colors that might as well have been in Greek. You may have seen The Literacy Continuum on a colleague’s desk, flipped through it, and put it back down. Don’t forget to read last week’s blog on the Systems of Strategic Actions, an essential part of The Literacy Continuum. *This is the second in a series of blogs about The Fountas & Pinnell Literacy Continuum.
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