Jennifer Serravallo

"Reading well across disciplines and within varied contexts will help students to be versatile, flexible, deep readers who can better learn from their reading, transfer skills across subjects, and use strategies to meet the unique demands of reading in each content area." – Jennifer Serravallo Research-based, easy-to-use lesson structures for explicit and engaging teaching In Teaching Reading Across the Day, literacy expert Jennifer Serravallo provides nine effective, predictable, research-based lesson structures that help busy teachers save planning time and focus their teaching—and student attention—on content rather than procedures. Each of the nine lesson structures (read aloud, phonics and spelling, vocabulary, focus, shared reading, close reading, guided inquiry, reader’s theater, and conversation) has its own chapter and features a wealth of resources that let you see the lessons in action in ELA, Science, and Social Studies classes, including: An annotated teaching vignette, lesson explanation, and research notesTips for planning, structure and timing suggestions, and ideas for responsive teachingDetailed planning templates and 22 accompanying online videos covering over 3 hours of classroom footageJen’s reflections, key look-fors, and ideas for next steps The nine lesson structures can be used with any curriculum or core program, text, and subject, making it easier for teachers to maximize explicit and engaging teaching time across the day, and simplify planning and preparation. Jen incorporates a wide range of compelling research about how best to teach reading to every student in your class and translates the research (or the science of teaching reading) into high-leverage moves you can count on to deliver powerful lessons again and again. She also honors the art of teaching reading, helping teachers tap into their experience and hone their expertise to make quick, effective classroom decisions that take student learning to the next level.

This tabletop flip chart is designed to help save teachers preparation (and drawing) time and offer an updated and revised collection of charts unique to this resource. The Writing Strategies Book Companion Charts includes: 300 enlarged, color charts aligned to strategies from The Writing Strategies Book50 charts that are brand new to The Writing Strategies Book Companion Chartscolor laminated dividers for each chapter that make it easy to flip, find and teach strategiesSpiral-bound setup for ease of useFree-standing tabletop flip chart or under document camera displayThese charts are perfect for all educators of all experience levels. A compliment to The Writing Strategies Book, the interactive and enlarged charts are perfect for small-group, conferring or whole class-lessons. Using Jennifer Serravallo's research-aligned resources together, you'll be able to: save valuable planning and preparation timemake demonstrations and explanations of strategies easierprovide students with visual anchors to reference as they practice their writing skills

Evidence-based, responsive instruction made easier. 100 new and 200 heavily revised strategies 700+ references or links to research studies Skill progressions for progress monitoring 200 new student-facing charts New strategies for advanced middle school readers Recently published mentor texts used in lesson examples Serravallo brings a practical and proven approach to helping teachers help kids develop as skilled readers. The Reading Strategies Book 2.0 is designed to work in every K-8 classroom, providing strategies and lesson plans for every type of reader. The user-friendly design of The Reading Strategies Book 2.0 makes it easy to find strategies, prompts, and tips that meet every student where they are now. Save prep time and support readers' progress toward skills mastery with classroom-ready features such as revised lesson language with updated mentor texts, teaching tips with advice for differentiation, and mostly new student-facing charts. Whether you are looking for powerful and engaging lessons for whole-class teaching, need to supplement your core curriculum with small-group instruction, want to improve the quality of content-area instruction, or need ideas for intervention, The Reading Strategies Book 2.0 will help you connect research to practice.

Evidence-based, responsive instruction made easier. 100 new and 200 heavily revised strategies 700+ references or links to research studies Skill progressions for progress monitoring 200 new student-facing charts New strategies for advanced middle school readers Recently published mentor texts used in lesson examples Serravallo brings a practical and proven approach to helping teachers help kids develop as skilled readers. The Reading Strategies Book 2.0 is designed to work in every K-8 classroom, providing strategies and lesson plans for every type of reader. The user-friendly design of The Reading Strategies Book 2.0 makes it easy to find strategies, prompts, and tips that meet every student where they are now. Save prep time and support readers' progress toward skills mastery with classroom-ready features such as revised lesson language with updated mentor texts, teaching tips with advice for differentiation, and mostly new student-facing charts. Whether you are looking for powerful and engaging lessons for whole-class teaching, need to supplement your core curriculum with small-group instruction, want to improve the quality of content-area instruction, or need ideas for intervention, The Reading Strategies Book 2.0 will help you connect research to practice.

Find out how just a few minutes of purposeful, responsive teaching can have a big impact with your students. Jennifer Serravallo's Teaching Writing in Small Groups details essential practices for optimizing groups that help you: value each child's language and literacy practices develop relationships with your writers teach with efficiency increase student engagement improve independence develop social support amongst students provide space to give and receive feedback. First, Teaching Writing in Small Groups lays the foundation for success. Jen shows how to create groups for maximum effectiveness and how to make what you teach responsive, clear, and sticky. Then she streamlines differentiated instruction with a menu of small-group options for providing just-right support: strategy lessons guided writing shared writing interactive writing inquiry groups reflection groups coaching writing partnerships and clubs Jen has thought of it all. Twelve videos with writers from Kindergarten to seventh grade from in-person and online classrooms model each type of small group, selected passages and forms are available in the Online Resources in Spanish, downloadable skill-progression note-taking forms provide focus for instructional decision making, and her "Take It to Your Classroom" feature supports implementation for individuals or study groups. Read Jennifer Serravallo's Teaching Writing in Small Groups because the question isn't whether small groups work, but how to make the most of them.

"Spanish-language educators tell me that they too often spend precious time translating English-only material so that it can work with their students. My Facebook and Twitter messages and my email inbox are all filled with educators who are asking for the same thing: Spanish editions of The Reading Strategies Book and The Writing Strategies Book. I'm so glad they are finally here " --Jennifer Serravallo Teachers love Jennifer Serravallo's Reading Strategies Book because it breaks down the complex processes of reading and instruction into manageable chunks. Now with El libro de estrategias de lectura, she brings 300+ strategies to students in Spanish. El libro de estrategias de lectura offers children clear and accessible strategies for improving their literacy skills in Spanish whether they are native Spanish speakers or learning Spanish as a second language. It can also serve as a bridge to English instruction that supports literacy growth in a child's home language. You'll discover: 300+ strategies new strategies specific to Spanish language arts meticulous translation and adaptations into Latin American Spanish authentic student work new suggestions for mentor texts relevant to Latino/a readers all new classroom visuals. This rich resource for goal-directed, strategy-based instruction is ideal for many kinds of instructional contexts, including: dual-language/two-way classrooms bilingual immersion classrooms transitional bilingual programs schools with high populations of emergent bilingual students in mainstream classrooms. Much more than a Spanish edition, El libro de estrategias de lectura is a key that can unlock barriers to progress in reading. READY TO USE WITH: Reading workshop Guided reading Balanced literacy Core reading programs

Why are reading conferences so important? What do effective reading conferences look and sound like? How do I fit reading conferences into my literacy block? "Conferring," writes Jennifer Serravallo, "is where the magic happens." In this primer, she reveals that this seeming magic is actually purposeful, responsive instruction. Jen presents conferences for six specific instructional situations: assessing, goal-setting, strategy lessons, and more. A rich design, replete with infographics and special features, guides you quickly from learning to teaching with: Jen's moves and language 9 videos of her teaching in K-8 classrooms 13 conference note-taking forms--one for each reading goal from the hierarchy in her Reading Strategies Book Suggestions for connecting emergent bilingual learners' language goals and reading goals. With Jen's support, you'll discover the true magic of conferring--the joyous, aha moments you'll see in growing readers.

"Goals help guide my thinking about reader's skills within each level of text complexity, and a leveling system helps my understanding of readers' development from level to level." --Jennifer Serravallo Understanding Texts & Readers makes comprehension make sense as Jennifer Serravallo narrows the distance between assessment and instruction. She maps the four fiction and four nonfiction comprehension goals she presented in The Reading Strategies Book 2.0 to fourteen text levels and shares sample responses that show what to expect from readers at each level. Jen simplifies teaching text complexity and clarifies comprehension instruction. She begins by untangling the many threads of comprehension: levels, engagement, stamina, the relevance of texts, and much more. Then level by level she: calls out with precision how plot and setting, character, vocabulary and figurative language, and themes and ideas change - across levels in fiction specifies how the complexity of main idea, key details, vocabulary, and text features increases in nonfiction texts points out what to expect from a reader as text characteristics change provides samples of student responses to texts shares progressions across levels to support instructional planning. Even if you haven't read the book your reader is responding to, you'll have the background necessary to make great teaching decisions for all your readers. "Understanding subtle shifts and increases in demands from level to level," writes Jennifer Serravallo, "can guide what a teacher asks a student, what the teacher expects of the student, and what the teacher, therefore, teaches the student." Want to become a master of matching kids to books? Looking to take the difficult out of differentiation? Or do you want to dramatically increase the power and responsiveness of Jen's Reading Strategies Book 2.0? Understanding Texts & Readers shows you how to move forward when students need to make progress.

The Reading Strategies Book made the New York Times Best Seller List by making it simpler to match students' needs to high-quality instruction. Now, in The Writing Strategies Book, Jen Serravallo does the same, collecting 300 of the most effective strategies to share with writers, and grouping them beneath 10 crucial goals. "You can think of the goals as the what, "writes Jen, "and the strategies as the how." From composing with pictures all the way to conventions and beyond, you'll have just-right teaching, just in time. With Jen's help you'll: develop individual goals for every writer give students step-by-step strategies for writing with skill and craft coach writers using prompts aligned to a strategy present mentor texts that support a genre and strategy adjust instruction to meet individual needs with Jen's Teaching Tips demonstrate and explain a writing move with her Lesson Language learn more with Hat Tips to the work of influential teacher-authors. She even offers suggestions for stocking your writing center, planning units of study, celebrating student writing, and keeping records. Whether you use Writing Workshop, 6+1 Traits, Daily 5's "Work on Writing," a scripted writing program, the writing exercises in your basal, or any other approach, you'll discover a treasure chest of ways to work with whole classes, small groups, or individual writers. "I am convinced that helping kids to articulate clear goals for their work," writes Jen Serravallo, "and supporting them with strategies and feedback to accomplish those goals, makes a huge difference." With The Writing Strategies Book you can make that kind of difference with your writers every day.