Quote from Fountas and Pinnell Guiding Readers and Writers Grades 3-6
I skimmed and read portions of this volume over the weekend and will share a few quotes that I found noteworthy.
In the introduction page vi
“Our goal was to write a book about teaching reading in upper elementary classrooms, but we quickly abandoned that idea. The interconnectedness of reading and writing is profound and inescapable. We couldn’t address reading without discussing writing as well, because literacy doesn’t unfold that way in the classroom – or shouldn’t. Fragmenting these complex literacy processes interferes with the greatest goal of literacy education – the construction of meaning from and through text. Using reading and writing together in harmonious concert enables learners to draw on these complementary processes at the same time they work to construct meaning.”
