LLI

Leveled Literacy Intervention [Fountas & Pinnell]

The Fountas & Pinnell Leveled Literacy Intervention System (LLI) is a small-group, supplementary literacy intervention designed to help teachers provide powerful, daily, small-group instruction for the lowest achieving students at their grade level. Through systematically designed lessons and original, engaging leveled books,LLI supports learning in both reading and writing, helps students expand their knowledge of language and words and how they work. The goal of LLI is to bring students to grade level achievement in reading

What does an LLI lesson look like?

Each LLI lesson typically includes:

• Re-reading a familiar book
• Phonics Instruction
• Introduction and reading of a new book
• Students are introduced to a new book every day. The books are carefully sequenced to help students apply what they know from previous texts – to build a reading vocabulary of high frequency words as well as words that need to be decoded; to read for fluency and efficient processing and confidence; and to build reading comprehension through intentional conversations and explicit instruction. Lessons include before reading, during reading, and after reading prompts.
• Writing about reading

Every other day, in each 10 lesson sequence the children write. Writing helps the students analyze new words using letter sound relationships and word parts. Writing also helps the students increase and extend their comprehension of new text.

• Letter and Word Work

The purpose of this part of the LLI lesson is to engage the students in hands-on work to familiarize students with how print works. By using magnetic letters, picture cards, word cards and other materials students become aware of similarities, differences, and patterns in words.

What can I expect my child to bring home for LLI?

Your child will take home a reading folder with a take home book to be read daily, signed, and brought back for the lesson the next day. It is very important that your child returns their book and reading folder the next day so a new lesson can be worked on.

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