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The Fountas & Pinnell Prompting Guide 1

The Fountas & Pinnell Prompting Guide 1 is a flip-chart tool that you can use to enhance your teaching power in guided reading lessons; intervention lessons; shared reading; independent reading; reading and writing conferences; and dictated, independent, and interactive writing. If you are a classroom teacher, reading specialist, literacy teacher, Reading Recovery teacher, or literacy coach, you can use this flip chart as a ready reference while working with students in several instructional contexts.

Fountas and Pinnell have compiled a comprehensive collection of precise language to use when teaching, prompting for, and reinforcing effective strategic actions reading and writing. Based on your observations and analysis of students’ reading and writing behaviors, you can select the specific language that will work best for children as they build their literacy processing systems. The language in this guide will improve the reader’s or writer’s ability to solve problems and use strategic actions independently.

Contents

Teaching For Strategic Actions in Reading and Writing
Using Prompting Guide 1

READING
Early Reading Behaviors

Reading Left-to-Right/Return to Left * Establishing Voice-Print Match * Monitoring Voice-Print Match

Searching for and Using Information
Meaning * Structure * Visual Information * Multiple Sources of Information

Solving Words
Word Beginnings * Word Parts

Monitoring and Correcting
Self-Monitoring * Self-Correcting

General Problem-Solving
Initiating Problem-Solving Actions

Monitoring Fluency
Rate * Pausing * Phrasing * Stress * Intonation * Integration

WRITING
Composing Sentences
Telling About Ideas

Early Writing Behaviors
Placing Words on the Page

Verbal Path for Letter Formation
The Formation of Letters

Constructing Words
Using Sound Analysis * Using Visual Analysis * Monitoring and Correcting Words

Conventions
Capitalization and Punctuation

Revisiting the Text for Word Study
Confirming Word Knowledge

Using the Prompting Guide 1 in Leveled Literacy Intervention Lessons

The Fountas and Pinnell Prompting Guide 1 is a tool for you to use to support children as they read or write. You will find specific language to teach for strategies in reading and writing.

Prompting Guide 1 builds on other Fountas and Pinnell professional books that provide detailed suggestions for helping readers and writers build systems of strategic actions that enable them to process and construct texts independently. You will find this is an excellent companion to: When Readers Struggle: Teaching that Works, Guided Reading, Guiding Readers and Writers, Interactive Writing, and Teaching for Comprehending and Fluency.

NOTE: One copy of The Fountas & Pinnell Prompting Guide 1: A Tool for Literacy Teachers is included with each of the LLI Systems. You may purchase additional copies for $19.95. Click here for ordering information.