Lessons Learned In Combat

50 Gradients of Grey

In September of 2012 Irene Fountas and Sue Pinnell, creators of the F&P Text Level Gradient and the leading voices in reading intervention as it currently exists, put out a white paper through their publisher, Heinemann Publishing, that explained their decision to make “minor adjustments” to the grade-level goals on their text level gradient, which… Continue reading 50 Gradients of Grey

Lessons Learned In Combat

Collaboration is Key

Let's not fool ourselves: it can be difficult to find the time to collaborate with others about our work. I was part of a pretty tight group of graduate students in the reading program at UNH a couple of years ago, and we swore to each other that we would keep in touch and regularly… Continue reading Collaboration is Key