Two common reading level systems are exceptions to this: Fountas and Pinnell’s Guided Reading program uses letters, from A to Z, while the increasingly popular Lexile leveling scheme rates both ...

Fountas and Pinnell focuses on level readers, said Heidi White, director of elementary education. The new curriculum, CKLA or Core Knowledge Language Arts, is based on the science of reading.

Earlier this month, a group of parents filed a lawsuit in Massachusetts against the creators of some of the most popular reading curricula from the past few decades: Lucy Calkins, Irene Fountas ...

In what appears to be a first-of-its-kind lawsuit, two local families on Wednesday sued literacy specialists Lucy Calkins, Irene Fountas, and Gay Su Pinnell, whose reading curriculums have been ...

Aimed at reading series by Lucy Calkins and Fountas and Pinnell, the tort raises new questions about how popular curricula are marketed By Sarah Schwartz — December 06, 2024 7 min read ...