Options include the modeling of lessons with students at your school and guided practice of fine - tuning lessons with books and lessons across the gradient of text levels. (literacyfootprints.com)
Teaching students with explicit and powerful instruction requires understanding the challenges at different text levels. (literacyfootprints.com)
All of Fountas and Pinnell's work references their F&P Text Level Gradient ™ — often referred to as Guided Reading levels or Fountas & Pinnell levels — beginning with the publication of Guided Reading: Good First Teaching for All Children, and extending to the publication of The Fountas & Pinnell Literacy Continuum, the Benchmark Assessment System 1 and 2 and the Leveled Literacy Intervention Systems. (fountasandpinnell.com)