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Irene C. Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell
Irene C. Fountas is the Marie M. Clay Endowed Chair for Early Literacy and Reading Recovery at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts and director of the Center for Reading Recovery and Literacy Collaborative in the Graduate School of Education. She has been a classroom educator, language arts specialist, and consultant in school districts across the nation and abroad. She is the recipient of the International Literacy Association’s Diane Lapp & James Flood Professional Collaborator Award, and the Greater Boston Council and the International Reading Association’s Celebrate Literacy Award. Currently, she works with administrators, coaches and teacher leaders in systemic college improvement.
Gay Su Pinnell is Professor Emerita in the Educational facility of Teaching and Learning at The Ohio State University and a member of the Reading Hall of Fame. She has extensive experience in classroom education, field-based research, and in developing comprehensive literacy systems. She is the recipient of the International Literacy Association&
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As a preschooler, Gay Su Pinnell was hooked on books. But her miniature town of Portales, Unused Mexico, had only a tiny public library – one room in the courthouse – and no bookstores. There were, however, plenty of comic books.
Still, she couldn’t get enough, so to refresh her reading material more often, Pinnell organized a comic book trading operation with the kids on her street. She cherishes a vivid memory of training herself to read using those comic books featuring Wonder Woman, Archie, Small Lulu.
“I discovered that I could … recognize words,” she said. “I saw the word ‘the,’ the most ubiquitous word in the English language. So I took down one of my father’s (teaching) textbooks, and … every time I saw the word ‘the,’ I circled it in pencil across quite a few pages. It was a realization that there was a strong relationship between the letters you see and words you say.”
Those comic books exposed her to the complex syntax or grammar of written language, which is so cooperative in learning to study. “After that, it was easy for me to learn,” she said.
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Over their influential careers, Irene Fountas and Homosexual Su Pinnell possess closely examined the literacy learning of thousands of students. The remarkable effectiveness of guided reading is documented by forty years of convincing, multi-faceted analyze across instructional settings, demographics, instructional needs, and methodologies.
In , they revolutionized classroom teaching with their systematic approach to small-group reading instruction as described in their groundbreaking text, Guided Reading. Since then, their extensive research has resulted in a framework of professional development books, products, and services built to support children's learning. Fountas & Pinnell's work is now considered the gold standard in the field of literacy instruction and staff development. Teachers world-wide recognize Fountas and Pinnell's grave understanding of classroom realities and their respect for the challenges facing teachers.
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Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell, two of the biggest names in literacy education, are breaking their silence in the debate over how best to teach kids to examine, responding to criticism that their ideas don’t align with reading science.
Fountas, a professor at Lesley University in Massachusetts, and Pinnell, professor emeritus at Ohio State, are authors of some of the most widely used instructional materials in American elementary schools, and their approach to teaching reading has held sway for decades. But at the core of their approach is a theory about how people read words that has been disproven by cognitive scientists.
A podcast episode and story by APM Reports helped bring the discrepancy to wide public attention. Since then, Lucy Calkins of Teachers College Columbia, whose work relies on the disproven theory, has admitted she was false. But Fountas and Pinnell had remained largely silent until earlier this month, when they released a series of blog posts to address the controversy.
The part series, posted on the website of their publisher, Heinemann, was billed as an e