<p><strong></strong></p><div style="text-align:center"><strong>Take advantage of our pre-publication price and order now!</strong></div><p></p><p style="width:100%; text-align:center"></p><p><strong style="line-height:1.5">What can change the landscape of literacy education in every classroom?</strong></p><p><span style="line-height:1.5"><strong>The Fountas &amp; Pinnell Literacy Continuum: Expanded Edition!</strong></span></p><p><strong></strong><span style="line-height:1.5">The Fountas &amp; Pinnell Literacy Continuum: Expanded Edition is the newest edition of the beloved resource by best-selling literacy authors and educators, Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell.</span></p><p>There has never been a more comprehensive resource available to teachers that does what the continuum does - provide specific behaviors and understandings that are required at each level for students to demonstrate thinking within, beyond, and about the text. These behaviors and understandings describe what students will be expected to do in order to effectively read and understand the text.</p><p><span style="line-height:1.5">This book contains seven continua. Each continuum focuses on an area of the language arts curriculum. Six continua provide grade level expectations and are designed for planning group instruction. The seventh, the Guided Reading continuum, is organized according to the Fountas and Pinnell Text Level Gradient</span><span style="line-height:1.5">(TM)</span><span style="line-height:1.5">and correlates directly with the </span><em style="line-height:1.5">Fountas and Pinnell Benchmark Assessment System</em><span style="line-height:1.5"> levels and the<em>Fountas and Pinnell Leveled Literacy Intervention Systems</em>.</span></p><p>The continua provide specific descriptions of the texts that students read, listen to, write, and perform. In addition, each continuum lists specific behaviors and understandings that are required at each level for students to demonstrate thinking within, beyond, and about the text. These behaviors and understandings describe what students will be expected to do in order to effectively read and understand the text.</p>