Fountas & Pinnell (F&P)
The professional community I chose to access is the Fountas & Pinnell Literacy Community. http://www.fountasandpinnell.com/engage/ The Fountas & Pinnell program focuses on developing teacher expertise through a variety of resources and professional development opportunities. By strengthening their skills through professional development, teachers are able to better support children’s literacy growth. Levelled books and appropriate phonics and writing activities are used in this program in a way that is supportive to the child’s age and development. The goal of this guided reading program is to bring the child to the reading level appropriate for the grade. Teaching must begin where the child is able to engage with some success. I chose to engage with the Fountas & Pinnell Literacy Community because it is the reading intervention program used at the school I work in. Children’s literacy growth and development is an area I am very interested in. When students enter grade one, they have very few literacy skills and self-initiating actions towards reading. I rely on the F&P resources in my classroom to support and engage students in the reading process. In this professional space, I hope to engage in conversations about including Aboriginal content in the F&P resources. The literacy program has just released a Spanish system to support ESL students in the United States. I hope to bring awareness to the need of indigenized resources for Canadian students. By engaging with this community, I hope to learn valuable information that can help support students’ reading skills throughout my school. My goal is to access ideas and information that can improve my classroom reading instruction. With this new knowledge, I can provide guidance and leadership for my colleagues in strengthening their literacy instruction as well.
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