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Fountas & Pinnell's Leveled Literacy Intervention Program(LLI)
 
As of September 2014, Warren Township Schools adopted a reading program by Guided Reading gurus: Irene C. Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell. The program is Leveled Literacy Intervention, or LLI. It is a program that is designed to lift the literacy achievement of students who are not achieving grade level expectations in reading and writing. Research has proven its success with struggling readers.
 
LLI Reading Systems are based on 15 key principles to support readers. They are listed below:

  1. LLI engages students with high interest, well written texts in a variety of fiction and nonfiction genres that have been leveled by Fountas and Pinnell.
  2. LLI increases students reading volume by engaging them in large amounts of daily successful reading.
  3. LLI provides students with choice in reading material to increase motivation.
  4. LLI enables new learning by matching the text to the reader's instructional reading level.
  5. LLI supports the development of independent, self-initiating, self-regulatory behaviors.
  6. LLI provides large amounts of expository text reading (60% nonfiction/40% fiction).
  7. LLI helps students think deeply about texts and derive the larger ideas from their reading.
  8. LLI helps students focus on comprehension and monitor their reading through metacognitive attention that supports deeper understanding of fiction and informational texts.
  9. LLI provides intensive and dynamic study of words to increase students' ability to rapidly solve them while reading and writing.
  10. LLI focuses on systematic, intentional vocabulary development.
  11. LLI promotes smooth, phrased reading that moves along at a good pace.
  12. LLI focuses the intervention on oral language development by providing structures to promote meaningful student talk.
  13. LLI uses writing to support and extend comprehension.
  14. LLI supports the specific needs of English language learners.
  15. LLI provides a great deal of student support through explicit, direct instruction with a small teacher-student ratio.

Principles taken from:
LLI System Guide
Fountas and Pinnell
2013
Heinemann