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Lakshmi Valdes Tina Hanby

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The Fountas & Pinnell Leveled Literacy Intervention System (LLI) is a small-group, supplementary literacy intervention designed to help teachers provide powerful, daily, small-group instruction for the lowest achieving students at their grade level. Through systematically designed lessons and original, engaging leveled books, LLI supports learning in both reading and writing, helps students expand their knowledge of language and words and how they work. The goal of LLI is to bring students to grade level achievement in reading.

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Lessons across the seven systems progress from level A (beginning reading in kindergarten) through level Z (represents competencies at the middle and secondary school level) on the F&P Text Level Gradient. Header

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Emphasis on teaching for comprehending strategies. Explicit attention to genre and to the features of nonfiction and fiction texts. Special attention to disciplinary reading, literature inquiry, and writing about reading. Specific work on sounds, letters, and words in activities designed to help students notice the details of written language and learn how words "work." Close reading to deepen and expand comprehension. Explicit teaching of effective and efficient strategies for expanding vocabulary.

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Explicit teaching for fluent and phrased reading. Use of writing about reading for the purpose of communicating and learning how to express ideas for a particular purpose and audience using a variety of writing strategies. Built-in level-by-level descriptions and competencies from The Continuum of Literacy Learning, PreK-8 (2011) to monitor student progress and guide teaching. Communication tools for informing parents about what children are learning and how they can support them at home. Technology support for assessment, record keeping, lesson instruction, and home and classroom connections.

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A guide that provides a comprehensive overview of the LLI System.

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Systematically designed, fast- paced lessons to support both reading and writing development. The Lesson Guide Volumes 1 & 2, includes all the lessons as well as an introduction to the program that will help you prepare materials you will use throughout the lessons. At end of each 10-lesson sequence, the Guided Reading Continuum for the level provides a set of specific behaviors to notice, teach, and support in your lessons. An introductory Letter to Parents can be printed from the Lesson Resources CD in English or Spanish and sent home.

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When Readers Struggle: Teaching That Works is a comprehensive resource on struggling readers. Its filled with specific teaching ideas for helping children in kindergarten through Grade 3 who are having difficulty in reading and writing.

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Brightly colored bags for students to carry their Take-Home Books and Fold Sheets. 6-pack, 2 of each color.

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Folders for storing Reading Records, tracking student data and graphing student progress.

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Contains the Recording Forms, Word and Picture Cards, Letter Minibooks, My ABC Books, an Alphabet Linking Chart, My Poetry Books, Parent Letters and other record- keeping and observation forms and resources youll need to support your instruction. Facilitates data entry and progress monitoring, reporting, and graphing of individual student and small group progress.

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A DVD featuring a tutorial on coding, scoring, and analyzing Reading Records.