Leveled Literacy Intervention Adds Additional Literacy Safety Net to K-2 Classrooms

Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell's system for children Grades K-2 who find reading and writing difficult--called Leveled Literacy Intervention--is a small-group program designed to work in conjunction with Reading Recovery as an additional safety net for struggling kids. Unlike Reading Recovery where teachers work with children one-on-one, LLI teachers work with groups of three students five times per week for 18 weeks with the goal of bringing them to grade level.

Leveled Literacy Intervention:

• Combines reading, writing, and specific work on sounds, letters, and words
• Provides explicit teaching of effective strategies for writing, and uses writing to extend understanding of texts and of words
• Emphasizes teaching for comprehending strategies
• Continuum of student understandings to guide the series of lessons
• Uses authentic texts

This is an ideal opportunity for any teacher who provides small group reading support in the primary grades including Reading Recovery teachers, Title One teachers and reading teachers. Teachers being trained in LLI participate in six days of professional development where they learn how to implement structured lessons that include phonics/word study and the reading of leveled texts.

Training is available on site for districts who meet a participant minimum. The Center for Reading Recovery and Literacy Collaborative faculty have worked with hundreds of teachers from around the country including Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, South Carolina, Washington and more.

Teachers wishing to be apart of the LLI training must be able to work with at least one group of three students five days a week as well as attend all six days of training.

2010 Training Dates!

Spring 2010:

• Days 1-3: January 12-14, 2010
• Days 4-6: March 16-18, 2010

Summer 2010:

• Days 1-3: August 17-19, 2010
• Days 4-6: October 19-21, 2010

Learn how Leveled Literacy Intervention fits with the guidelines and suggestions for using ARRA funds [pdf] and for more information, see our ARRA page.

Also, download Irene Fountas's March 2009 letter on how to apply ARRA funds [pdf] towards Center professional development offerings.

Learn More

Download our brochure here

For more detailed program information, please visit www.fountasandpinnellleveledliteracyintervention.com.

Questions? Please contact:

Alison Buraczenski
Project Manager
Leveled Literacy Intervention
617.349-8693
aburacze@lesley.edu