Fountas & Pinnell Comprehensive Phonics, Spelling, and Word Study Guide

The Fountas & Pinnell Comprehensive Phonics, Spelling, and Word Study Guide provides you with a comprehensive map of the knowledge students develop on their journey to becoming expert word solvers and effective readers and writers. The literacy behaviours you know and understand as you make minute-by-minute decisions within the act of teaching will make the biggest impact on student learning.

You will find that this essential guide, presented in an easy-to-use chart form, is a critical companion to The Fountas & Pinnell Literacy Continuum, Expanded Edition. You will be able to hone your observations of students’ literacy behaviors with this indispensable tool, which combines the behaviours and understandings from the Phonics continuum with the specific times (early, middle, or late in grades PreK-8) appropriate for each one to be introduced and then to be under students’ control. In addition, instructional language and a multitude of specific examples appear exclusively in this guide. Use this resource to guide your students in an exploration of letter and word learning.

The Fountas & Pinnell Comprehensive Phonics, Spelling, and Word Study Guide reflects the specific behaviours related to the nine areas of learning for letters, sounds, and words that children develop over time:

Early Literacy Concepts
Phonological Awareness
Letter Knowledge
Letter-Sound Relationships
Spelling Patterns
High-Frequency Words
Word Meaning/Vocabulary
Word Structure
Word-Solving Actions