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This expanded edition enables teachers to construct a common vision for student achievement that effectively and efficiently engages all students in the robust, authentic and meaningful literacy learning every child deserves. The Literacy Continuum provides a way to look for specific evidence of learning from prekindergarten through grade eight, and across eight instructional contexts. Each instructional context contributes substantially, in different but complementary ways, to students' development of the literacy process. The continuum describes text characteristics and behavioral goals for prekindergarten through middle school, across the areas pertinent to the language arts. Expanded Edition is designed to: -elevate language and literacy expertise; -develop an understanding of the demands of texts on readers; -build an understanding of the reading and writing process and how it changes over time; -hone the observation of students' literacy behaviors; -teach toward student integration of the Systems of Strategic Actions; -articulate the literacy curriculum within and across grade levels -activate the responsive teaching that meets students where they are and brings them forward with intention and precision; -build professional learning opportunities with colleagues; -create a common vision and common language for literacy. Fountas & Pinnell include eight different continua. Each focuses on a different aspect of their language and literacy instructional framework (Guided Reading: Responsive Teaching Across the Grades #96748) and each contributes to students' development of reading, writing, and language processes. The Literacy Continuum includes: 1.Interactive Read-Aloud and Literature Discussion 2.Shared & Performance Reading 3.Writing About Reading 4.Writing 5.Oral & Visual Communication 6.Technological Communication 7.Phonics, Spelling, and Word Study 8.Guided Reading | |