Leveled Literacy Intervention
The Fountas & Pinnell Leveled Literacy Intervention System (LLI) is a small-group, supplementary literacy intervention designed to help teachers provide powerful, daily, small-group instruction for the lowest achieving students at their grade level. Through systematically designed lessons and original, engaging leveled books, LLI supports learning in both reading and writing, helps students expand their knowledge of language and words and how they work. The goal of LLI is to bring students to grade level achievement in reading.
Each Level of LLI provides:
Excerpts from: http://www.heinemann.com/fountasandpinnell/lli_overview.aspx
Each Level of LLI provides:
- Combination of reading, writing, and phonics/word study.
- Emphasis on teaching for comprehending strategies.
- Explicit attention to genre and to the features of nonfiction and fiction texts.
- Special attention to disciplinary reading, literature inquiry, and writing about reading.
- Specific work on sounds, letters, and words in activities designed to help students notice the details of written language and learn how words "work."
- Close reading to deepen and expand comprehension.
- Explicit teaching of effective and efficient strategies for expanding vocabulary.
- Explicit teaching for fluent and phrased reading.
Excerpts from: http://www.heinemann.com/fountasandpinnell/lli_overview.aspx
This lesson framework is used for 1st and 2nd grade Title I students.
This framework for third grade students is adjusted to accommodate a 30 minute lesson.