Guiding Readers and Writers (Grades 3-6): Teaching Comprehension, Genre, and Content Literacy review:5 stars (One-Stop Language Arts Guide) - This book breaks down every aspect of the Language Arts component and is very thorough.5 stars (Can change your practice!!) - You'll be surprised by the progress your kids will make, when you teach using the methods described in this book. You will reach learners at every level and do so in an authentic way that provides each student with choices and opportunities to become instrumental in their own learning. You will foster the love of reading and writing and the children will beg you to do reading/writing workshop. What a gift Fountas and Pinnell have given children across the country! If you teach grades 3-6, it is a staple...must have!5 stars (Creating a Reading/Writing Workshop in Your Classroom) - If you have been wanting to convert your classroom into a reading/writing workshop but haven't known how to start, _Guiding Readers and Writers: Grades 3-6_ is the book for you! Authors Irene C. Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell have created a comprehensive manual for establishing a reading/writing community -- a place where students can spend two and a half to three hours a day engaged in authentic reading and writing.Teachers who are already using a workshop approach are likely to find much in _Guiding Readers and Writers_ that will make their job easier. Even teachers of younger and older students will find many practical suggestions to implement.Fountas and Pinnell see the goal of language arts instruction in the intermediate grades to be the creation of lifelong readers and writers. They structure the language arts class in a three-block framework: a sixty-minute reading workshop, a sixty-minute writing workshop, and a thirty- to sixty-minute language/word study segment (including spelling, vocabulary, decoding, and more).In addition to providing a treasure trove of information, Fountas and Pinnell have produced a book that is remarkably readable and user-friendly. The two-column format is extremely helpful. In addition, frequent headings, bullet points, and graphics help you to efficiently get the information you need.With photos and other graphics, Fountas and Pinnell show you how to organize your classroom, your materials, and your time for a reading/writing workshop. The authors provide step-by-step instructions for getting started (in a few instances even offering a sample script). They provide scores of suggestions for minilessons, and they recommend more than 1,000 books for classroom use. In addition, each section includes techniques to use with struggling readers and writers. The book even devotes a section to the "testing genre," helping students develop strategies to maximize their performance on standardized reading tests.Furthermore, _Guiding Readers and Writers_ includes sixty-five appendices (nearly 150 pages)! Fifty-three of the appendices are reproducible pages that the teacher or the student can use for planning, record-keeping, assessment, analysis, etc. Most of the remaining appendices comprise lists of recommended books. A list of 1,000 books is repeated -- organized once by title and again by level. _Guiding Readers and Writers_ will help you rekindle the passions that originally prompted you to become an English teacher -- and it will show you how to share those passions with your students. Focusing on the vital elements of communication is likely to produce the best year ever -- for you *and* for your students.
Guiding Readers and Writers (Grades 3-6): Teaching Comprehension, Genre, and Content Literacy Features:
Author: Irene C. Fountas
Author: Gay Su Pinnell

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