These are unprecedented times. Like many of you, Heinemann and Pearson Canada continue to follow the development around COVID-19 with hope and reflection and, as promised, we have been working on ways to support educators and students in this uncertain time. This shift to remote learning has prompted many questions related to access and permissions from our valued Fountas & Pinnell Literacy™ customers.
In partnership with Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell, Heinemann and Pearson Canada will provide temporary teacher access to the following Fountas & Pinnell resources.
Video: Remote Teaching and Learning Guidelines for Leveled Literacy Intervention
Heinemann will release nine total videos (BAS, LLI, and seven total for FPC—one per instructional context) for verified product owners. These videos will provide teaching and learning suggestions for remote and hybrid teaching and learning conditions. As they are released, each video will be located in Online Resources.
ATTENTION: Enhancements to the Fountas & Pinnell Literacy™ Recording Forms
As Fountas and Pinnell’s thinking and research continues to expand and evolve, we want to ensure this latest thinking is reflected across the Fountas & Pinnell Literacy™ brand and is accessible to you and your students. For that reason, all users of LLI, BAS, 3e, and FPC Guided Reading Collection now have access to the new Recording Forms via Fountas & Pinnell Online Resources.
Video: Remote Teaching and Learning Guidelines for Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™
Heinemann will release nine total videos (BAS, LLI, and seven total for FPC—one per instructional context) for verified product owners. These videos will provide teaching and learning suggestions for remote and hybrid teaching and learning conditions. As they are released, each video will be located in Online Resources.
*Temporary access to additional resources loaded in the Online Resources expires June 30, 2021
Guided Reading (GR), K–6
Shared Reading (SR), K–3
Phonics, Spelling, and Word Study System (PWS), K–4
Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ Collection Guides
Reading Minilessons (RML) K–6:
Interactive Read Alouds (IRA) K-6
Remote Teaching and Learning Guidelines: Suggestions for Users of the Fountas & Pinnell Benchmark Assessment System
Determine how to best assess reading levels during remote and hybrid teaching environments by using the suggestions provided in the “Remote Teaching and Learning Guidelines: Suggestions for Users of the Fountas & Pinnell Benchmark Assessment System.”
These guidelines are for verified users of the Fountas & Pinnell Benchmark Assessment System and can be located in your Online Resources.
Available in print and video format!
Response to Administering Benchmark Assessment System During Remote Learning
Everything about the way you teach, the way you interact and engage with students has shifted suddenly and dramatically over the past several weeks. Under these unusual conditions, we do not recommend any kind of formal assessment. The Fountas & Pinnell Benchmark Assessment System (BAS) was designed to be administered in person with an unseen text to gather evidence about a child’s literacy development. The assessment was field tested for reliability and validity under these conditions. As a standardized assessment, in order to obtain fair and valid results, standardized procedures must be followed. Without these conditions, the assessment is no longer reliable or valid.
We understand that many of you are still expected to report on end-of-year student achievement, so we recommend that you consult with your colleagues and school/district administrators for guidance. There is no one-size-fits-all solution during this time.
Alternative Measures
The Fountas & Pinnell Literacy™ team has gathered some ideas for alternative measures that you currently have at your disposal that may enable you to collect meaningful data points for each of your students. We hope these alternative measures can be used with relative ease to provide a snapshot of each students’ literacy learning.
1. Optional Assessments
2. Observational Notes
Use your observational notes during your interactions with students to gain behavioral evidence of children’s thinking about texts:
3. Student Writing and Talk about Texts
Tools to measure student writing and talk about texts:
Collaborate with your colleagues on your school/district requirements. Use your own professional judgment about the best way to meet your school/district assessment policies in a fair and equitable way for all students.
The sudden shift to remote learning in Spring 2020 prompted Heinemann to respond rapidly to the needs of educators and students. At that time, they digitized as many resources as were possible and made those available for teacher access. As COVID-19 continues to impact what teaching and learning will look like for the 2020-21 school year, we rounded up a list of the Fountas & Pinnell Literacy™ resources that are/will be available for remote learning into one location for easy reference. We are committed to ensuring you can access the Online Resources for your purchased Fountas & Pinnell Literacy Resources.
*Note: You must have previously purchased the resource for which you are requesting access to the Online Resources.
Currently, verified product owners have complimentary, temporary teacher access to the digital resources below through June 30, 2021:
Heinemann is in the process of developing a secure student-facing platform and intends to provide student access (via a subscription model) for:
Bookmark the Fountas & Pinnell Literacy™ Remote Learning page and the Fountas & Pinnell Literacy™ Blog for updates on the availability dates.
Due to unauthorized sharing of materials and site access, concurrent logins to an individual account (more than one person using the same credentials [same email address and password] at the same time) will be prohibited starting 7/8/2020. Any user account not associated with a purchased product will be deactivated and concurrent user attempts will be locked out. If you have been using concurrent logins to access your purchased product resources, and now need to activate the remaining “seats” on your product code, please see information under the "Online Resources" tab above.
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Remote Literacy Learning Suggestions from the Fountas & Pinnell Literacy™ Team
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A Remote Learning Link Pack from Fountas & Pinnell Literacy™
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We are pleased to launch a new service to support our valued F&P customers.
Pearson is offering live webinars to help teachers achieve the greatest impact from their F&P resources. The sessions will take on an "ask us anything" format where participants can share questions and interact with others to develop a deeper understanding of responsive teaching and their F&P resources. These will be short sessions (40-60 minutes each) and registration will be capped at 15-20 to encourage participation and interaction.
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