F & P Literacy

What is Fountas & Pinnell Literacy System?

The Fountas & Pinnell Literacy Continuum is a tool for assessment, planning, and teaching in grades PreK–8.

The Literacy Continuum is a foundation for setting clear learning goals and planning specific lessons for students based on those goals.

What is inside The Literacy Continuum?

The F & P Continuum focuses on an area of the language arts curriculum. Eight continua provide grade-level expectations and the eighth, the Guided Reading continua, is organized according to the F&P Text Level Gradient™.

• Interactive Read-Aloud and Literature Discussion

• Shared and Performance Reading

• Writing about Reading

• Writing

• Oral and Visual Communication

• Digital Communication

• Phonics, Spelling, and Word Study

• Guided Reading