Monday, October 23, 2017

Joyful Independent Reading: Choice, Agency, and Engagement with Books

What Independent Readers Do
October 12, 2017 | Volume 13 | Issue 3


Joyful Independent Reading: Choice, Agency, and Engagement with Books
Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell

Choosing books to read and enjoy is at the heart of what it means to be literate. Our classrooms provide a learning community in which each child falls in love with books. Children taste the language and art of wonderful authors and illustrators and expand their worlds through books. When they walk into a classroom that features a library of appealing categories—authors, topics, illustrators, genres, award-winning books, or series—they learn that their days in school will include

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