Fountas and Pinnell Prompting Guide
Description: Teacher language while instructing reading is extremely important. Selected prompts will help a teacher choose targeted language to use during teaching based on what the student is neglecting while reading, along with determining just the right level of support that is needed. The levels of support follow the teach, practice and reinforce format with the teach prompt being the highest level of support and the reinforce prompts being the lowest level of teacher support. The goal is for independence while reading and for each student to monitor their reading in order to self-correct their errors based on phonics, attending to comprehension and language structure.
Directions: Based on student needs (what a student is lacking in their reading), choose prompts from the prompting guide to use for corrective feedback while at the table.
Instructional Resources:
Progress Monitoring Resources:
When progress monitoring, the goal is for a student to have a 1:1, 1:2 or 1:3 self-correction rate while reading a book or passage as evidenced in a running record.
Jan Richardson's Comprehension Modules
Description:
Jan believes that students really need only 12 comprehension strategies. When we understand these strategies and how readers apply them, we will be able to teach comprehension with any text. These strategies explicitly show us how to teach the focused comprehension area. How do you decide on a focus for a comprehension lesson? Consider the results of the comprehension interview to provide targeted instruction matching of the areas of weakness with the comprehension modules below.
Directions:
Jan's Comprehension Modules are arranged in developmental order. Start in the order from where an individual student or group of students are with their understanding and continue teaching the modules from that point.
Instructional Resources:
Jan Richardson- Comprehension Modules
Progress Monitoring Resources:
You can progress monitor by writing a + or - for each comprehension strategy being assessed at the end of each week or every other week. (5/6 or 6/6 +'s show mastery with progress monitoring)
Mosiac of Thought Comprehension Interview
Description: The Comprehension Interview is an informal tool for asking students about their reading habits, content choices, and use of strategies before, during, or after reading. This tool can be used to identify the area(s) of comprehension that a student has a strength or weakness in.
Directions:
After the teacher or the student reads a new story, the teacher will begin asking the student questions from the Comprehension Interview about the story to find the starting point for next steps in teaching based on the rubric scores. Since these comprehension strategies are developmental in nature, continue teaching each comprehension strategy, not yet mastered, based on rubric scores in the order found on the Comprehension Interview. Jan Richardson's Comprehension Modules are an excellent source for lessons to teach these skills. Progress monitoring with a rubric score of 3 shows mastery.
Instructional Resources:
Comprehension Interview w/rubrics
Progress Monitoring Resources:
Progress monitoring with a rubric score of 3 on any section of the Comprehension Interview shows mastery.