Fountas and Pinnell provide language for teaching readers how to focus or expand their thinking through talk and writing before, during, and after reading. The goal is to help students think in three broad ways.
1. Thinking Within the Text
Noticing and using the information that is directly stated in the text
2. Thinking Beyond the Text
Noticing what is implied, not explicitly stated
3. Thinking About the Text
Analysing the writer's craft and thinking critically about the whole text.
The prompts in this flip chart tool are designed to help teachers help teachers demonstrate, prompt for, or reinforce effective reading behaviours related to comprehension including
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