The publishers are listed as defendants alongside Calkins, Fountas, Pinnell, and Teachers College at Columbia University, where Calkins developed her approach.

AR levels? Lexiles? DRA2? “Leveled” reading programs are everywhere, but they are often misunderstood and misused, based on three very common myths about reading levels.

Fountas and Pinnell’s Leveled Literacy Intervention, a small-group tutoring program, saw students grow in reading ability in randomized trials in Georgia and New York.

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 ...

A lawsuit filed in Massachusetts state court accuses famous literacy specialists Lucy Calkins, Irene Fountas, and Gay Su Pinnell and their publisher Heinemann of pushing reading curriculums they ...