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

Leveled Literacy Intervention (LLI) is Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell's system for children in grades K–2 who find reading and writing difficult. It is a small-group program designed to work in conjunction with Reading Recovery as an additional safety net for struggling children. 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
  • Is ideal for teachers who provide small group reading support in the primary grades, including Reading Recovery teachers, Title I teachers, and reading teachers.

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.

LLI Training Dates

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. Teachers wishing to be a part 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.

2012 Dates

Summer LLI Class

  • Days 1-3: August 21-23, 2012
  • Days 4-6: October 23-25, 2012

Fall LLI Class

  • Days 1-3: October 16-18, 2012
  • Days 4-6: December 11-13, 2012

*** NEW! REGISTER ONLINE! ***

You are now able to register easily online.

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Questions? Please contact:

Alison Buraczenski
Project Manager
Leveled Literacy Intervention
617.349.8693
aburacze@lesley.edu
updated 04/23/12 | 05:22 PM