Fountas and Pinnell’s “Guiding Readers and Writers (Grades 3-6)”: Summary, Review and Critique
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This is a 5 page summary, review and critique of Irene C. Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell’s resource text “Guiding Readers and Writers (Grades 3-6)”. Irene C. Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell’s resource text “Guiding Readers and Writers (Grades 3-6): Teaching Comprehension, Genre, and Content Literacy” (2000) provides the next essential teaching steps in the educational process after their introductory reading and writing texts for the earlier grades. This text addresses the unique and more mature content handled in the later elementary grades while it “explores all the essential components of quality literacy programs in six separate sections: breakthrough to literacy; independent reading; guided reading; literature study; teaching for comprehension and word analysis; and, the reading and writing connection”. The writers have different focus and targets intended to benefit from this book; the teachers and the students as it will help teachers educate students how to “discover their voices as writers and refine their instincts as readers” and will establish a foundation for teachers to attain this goal. Overall, the book provides a highly comprehensive and more importantly, practical application of the methods they outline which also includes many resource materials for direct application to the learning environment from which teachers will highly benefit.
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