Meet Irene Fountas

Guided Reading expert Irene Fountas is a professor at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and has extensive experience as a

• classroom teacher
• language arts specialist
• consultant in school districts across the nation and abroad.

Currently, she directs field-based literacy research projects and continues to publish resources for comprehensive literacy programs.

With her co-author Gay Su Pinnell, she has written

• Guided Reading: Good First Teaching for All Children
• Guided Readers and Writers grades 3-6: Teaching Comprehension, Genre and Content Literacy
• Word Matters: Teaching Phonics and Spelling in the Reading/Writing Classroom
• Phonics Lessons: Letters, Words and How They Work (for Kindergarten, grade one and grade two).

She is the recipient of the Greater Boston Council and the International Reading Association's Celebrate Literacy Award.