This document outlines an agenda for a training on the Fountas and Pinnell Leveled Literacy Intervention (LLI) Red system. The training will cover key characteristics of intervention systems, materials and resources in the LLI system, how to structure LLI lessons, strategies for comprehension, vocabulary, fluency and word work, and using assessment to inform teaching. It concludes with reflection and evaluation of how to effectively implement a novel study approach and test preparation lessons in LLI to support students' reading.

1. Fountas and Pinnell
Nicole Lehr
CESA 6 Literacy Center Coordinator
nlehr@cesa6.org
LLI Red System
Grade 3
Session 1

2. Focus
9:00 Welcome and Introductions
9:15 Key Characteristics of Intervention
Systems of Strategic Actions
10:15 Break
10:30 Materials and Resources
11:30 Lunch
12:15 Odd Lessons
1:15 Break
1:30 Even Lessons
2:30 Closure and Evaluations, Question andAnswer session

3.  Intensive
 Short term
 Supplementary
 Daily lessons
 Low teacher-student ratio 1:4
 Taught by expert teacher
 Communication with classroom and home

4. LLI: Fifteen Characteristics of
Effective Literacy Intervention

5.  Engage students with high
interest, well-written texts
in a variety of genres

6.  Quantity counts
 Real reading
 Authentic, high-success
reading
 Increase reading volume by
engaging students in a large
amount of successful
reading daily

7.  Choice is important and
sometimes difficult in a
structured sequence
intervention

8.  We do want them to read
grade level and we want to
stretch, but we have to
start with something they
can do

9.  Hard to transfer back to
the classroom
 Self-initiating
 Self-regulatory

10.  Expository
 Narrative
 Procedural
 Persuasive
 60% of the texts are
nonfiction

11.  Thinking within, beyond,
and about the text
 Strategic action will be
named
 “Big Ideas”

12.  “close reading”
 Explicit instruction in
recognizing and using
genre characteristics and
text structure
 Mental model for genres

13.  Topic
 Principle
 Examples
 Build simple to work on all
the building blocks of word
study, ways to solve words

14.  Reading
 Writing
 Everyday speaking
 Formal
 The words you know
 Build vocabulary by making
connections between
words

15.  Momentum
 Option with every lesson
 Pausing
 Phrasing
 Word Stress
 Intonation
 Rate
 Integration

16.  Helps to development
academic language
 Become a collaborative
learning team

17.  Use writing to support and
extend comprehension
 Every other day
 Preplanned to coordinate
with instructional level
text
 Express and extend the
meaning
 Use some new vocabulary

18.  Support the specific needs
of English language
learners
 Includes word study
 Size of the group allows
learners to be active talkers
to extend language

19.  Provide explicit, direct
instruction by an expert
teacher, with a
recommended teacher-
student ration

20.  SolvingWords
 Developing a range of
flexibility strategies
 Monitor and Correct
 Child knows when he right
and when he’s wrong and
knows what to do with it
 Search for and Use
Information
 Notice and use information
sources (meaning, language
structure, visual information)
 Summarize
 Remember important
information and carry it
forward
 Think in a different way, tell
what’s important
 Maintain Fluency
 Not just speed
 Don’t allow them to read 1
page disfluently (use
prompting guide)
 Adjust
 Flexible ways to solve
problems

21. Thinking Beyond the Text Thinking About the Text
 Predict
 Think about what may happen
next
 Making Connections
 Connect the text to personal
and world knowledge as well as
to other texts
 Synthesize
 Adjust present understandings
to accommodate new
knowledge
 Infer
 Think about what the writer
means but has not stated
 Analyze
 Notice aspects of the
writer’s craft and text
structure
 Critique
 Think critically about the
text

22. Builds cohesiveness between
intervention and classroom teacher
What proficient readers and writers
are able to do all the time

23.  Systematic design
 People thought a solution came in a box, it was created as a
resource and tool
 Making teaching moves, thinking behind the design
 Get them moving fast, walking, drawing, they need to pick it
up, not to make them nervous, keep them moving, need to
be faster responders
 The program moves better when the teacher understands the
books better each year

24.  Can’t “sort of” do LLI
 Look at the data and the effects
 When you change the design you may change the
effects
 Systematic teaching, assessment, intensity to change the
literacy paths of these children
 When opportunities are available with fidelity the results
change

25.  Non-NoticingTeacher
Teaching lessons and program
 NoticingTeacher
Teaching the readers and writers
Observing behaviors
Teaching strategies

28.  Orange System: levelsA through E*
 Green System: levels A through K*
 Blue System: levels C through N
 Red System: levels L through Q
In Production:
 Gold System: levels O throughT
 Purple System: levels R throughW
 Teal System: levels U through Z
*A booster package will be available for those who have already purchased
the Orange and Green Systems.
Each system overlaps.

29.  Prompting Guide 1
 Prompting Guide 2
 System Guide
 Three-Volume Lesson
Guide
 Literacy Notebooks
 StudentTest Preparation
Booklets
 Word Magnets
 Student Folders
 Highlighter Strips
 Permanent andWipe-Off
Markers, Eraser
 F&P Calculator/Stopwatch
 Whiteboards
 Student Portfolio
 Professional Development
andTutorial DVD’s

30.  Whiteboard and dry-erase markers
 Teacher demonstrations during phonics and writing
 Chart paper
 Phonics and writing
 2 sets small lowercase magnet letters
 Teacher demonstrations during word work
 Magnetic letters sorted for use with students
 Paper or card stock for printing games and some charts
 One-inch-wide correction tape
 Cover errors in students’ Literacy Notebooks
 Stick-on notes for marking places in books

31.  One new resource
 Portfolio
 Right side – book
 Middle – literacy notebook
 Left side – homework, no take-home paper books
 Real books
 Need color
 Teach responsibility
 Help with study skills

32.  Lesson Guides
 192 lessons
 Specific continuum at the end of each level
 Books
 24 leveled texts for level
 12 odd / 12 even
 1 full-length novel at each level ( 4 day approach)
 1 test preparation at each level (4 day approach)
 6 copies of each book
 Author’s note inside back cover
 Designed for teacher to read to the students
 Series books

33. Fiction Series Nonfiction Series
 ClassicTales
 Alexandria Swift
 Mrs. O’s Class
 Daniel’s Gadgets
 The Slacker Family
 Two-Way Books
 GraphicTexts
 AgainstAll Odds
 Art for All
 Delicious!
 How BodiesWork
 Intriguing Animals
 Making a Difference
 Remarkable Inventions
 Solving Problems
 Sports for All
 Wonders of Nature
 GraphicText

34. General Resources Lesson Resources
 Consonant cluster and digraph chart
 Intervention record
 Lesson records for standard, novel study, and
test preparation lessons
 Guide for observing and noting reading
behaviors
 Coding and scoring errors at a glance
 Reflection guide
 Communication sheets for group and
individuals
 Reading graph
 Students achievement log
 Phonics/word study game directions and
game boards
 Words cards
 Translations of parent letters ( French,
Spanish, Hmong, Haitian-Creole)
 Recording forms for taking
reading records
 Readers’ theater activities
 Phrased reading activities
 Practice sorts
 Word cards
 Graphic organizers
 Word lists
 Phonics/word study games
 Parent letters (English)
 At the beginning of each level

35.  When Readers Struggle, L-Z: TeachingThat
Works (in press)
 Fountas and Pinnell Choice Library (in press)
 Fountas and Pinnell LLI Reading RecordApp for
iPads (in press)
Syncs data to the Online Data Management
System (ODMS)

36. Greater Effectiveness in
Teaching LLI Lessons

38. Thank you for your thinking and sharing this
morning! Enjoy your lunch!
LUNCH TIME

39. On the first day of
Intervention Focus:
“How am I going to get the child out of this
program.”

40.  How the BookWorks
New in Red System
 Vocabulary
Includes tier 1, 2, & 3 words

41. Approximate
Times for 45
Minute
Lesson
5 min 5 min 10 min 25 min
Odd-
Numbered
Lesson
Discussion of
Yesterday’s New
Book
Revisiting
Yesterday’s New
Book:
•Comprehension
•Vocabulary
•Fluency
Phonics /Word
Study
Reading a New
Book
(Instructional
Level)
Approximate
Times for 45
Minute
Lesson
5 min 5 min 15 min 10 min 10 min
Even-
Numbered
Lesson
Revisiting
Yesterday’s New
Book:
•Comprehension
•Vocabulary
•Fluency
Rereading and
Assessment
WritingAbout
Reading
Phonics /Word
Study
Reading a New
Book

42.  Part 1 – Discussion of Yesterday’s New Book (5 min)
 Share their thinking
 Guide discussion using strategic action chart
 Message statement provides insight into the “big” ideas of the
text
 Part 2 – RevisitingYesterday’s New Book (5 min)
 Suggestions for 3 choices: (CHOOSE ONLY 1!!!)
 Comprehension
 Vocabulary
 Fluency
 Depending upon the needs of your students

43.  Part 3 – Phonics/Word Study (10 min.)
The major concept for the teaching
Principle – a concise statement of the phonics
principle students need to understand and learn
to use
Example Chart – will create for students, or
the work they do related to the principle

44.  Part 4 – Reading a New Book (instructional level) (25 min.)
 Genre Focus – a statement indicating the key genre characteristics of the
new book
 Introducing theText
 Suggested language for introducing the new instructional level text
 Reading theText
 Suggestions for sampling oral reading and selecting prompts (prompting guides 1 &
2)
 Discussing and Revisiting theText
 Suggestions for inviting students to share their thinking about the text they read
 Key Understandings
 Statements of key understandings from the text. Use these to help you guide the
discussion and to observe for evidence of comprehension.
 Message
 A statement conveying the main or “big” ideas of the text
 Teaching Points
 Suggested teaching points
 Use prompting guides

46. Approximate
Times for 45
Minute
Lesson
5 min 5 min 10 min 25 min
Odd-
Numbered
Lesson
Discussion of
Yesterday’s New
Book
Revisiting
Yesterday’s New
Book:
•Comprehension
•Vocabulary
•Fluency
Phonics /Word
Study
Reading a New
Book
(Instructional
Level)
Approximate
Times for 45
Minute
Lesson
5 min 5 min 15 min 10 min 10 min
Even-
Numbered
Lesson
Revisiting
Yesterday’s New
Book:
•Comprehension
•Vocabulary
•Fluency
Rereading and
Assessment
WritingAbout
Reading
Phonics /Word
Study
Reading a New
Book

47.  Part 1 – RevisitingYesterday’s New Book (5 min)
 Cover of yesterday’s new book and suggestions for three choices
 Comprehension
 Vocabulary
 Fluency
 Depending upon the needs of your students
 Part 2 – Rereading and Assessment (5 min.)
 Guiding students to reread part of yesterday’s new book for a
specific purpose and for assessing one reader’s accuracy.

48.  Part 3 –Writing about Reading (15 min.)
 Using one of three forms of writing
 Shared
 Independent
 Dictated
 Also the type of writing that was used to write about
yesterday’s new book
 Student sample - given

49.  Part 4 – Phonics /Word Study (10 min.)
 The major concept for teaching
 Principle
 Concise statement of the phonics principle students need to understand
and learn to use
 Example
 An example of a chart you create with students or the work they do
related to the principle

50.  Part 5 – Reading a New Book (10 min.) (Independent Level)
 Genre Focus
 Statement indicating the key genre characteristics of the new book
 Introducing theText
 Suggestions to orient readers to new ideas, language, and text features for
the independent level book
 Reading theText
 Suggestions for sampling oral reading and selecting prompts
 Prompting Guide 1 & 2

51. Classroom and Homework
Assessing Reading andWriting
Behaviors
Supporting English Language Learners
Professional Development Links

52. Reflection and EvaluationTime
Focus:
Novel Study /Test Preparation
Supporting Effective Reading
Using Ongoing Assessment to InformYourTeaching
Fluency,Vocabulary, andWordWork Strategies
FINAL THOUGHTS…