The Reading Strategies Book: Your Everything Guide to Developing Skilled Readers

by Jennifer Serravallo

Overview

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With hit books that support strategic reading through conferring, small groups, and assessment, Jen Serravallo gets emails almost daily asking, "Isn't there a book of the strategies themselves?" Now there is.

"Strategies make the often invisible work of reading actionable and visible," Jen writes. In The Reading Strategies Book, she collects 300 strategies to share with readers in support of thirteen goals-everything from fluency to literary analysis. Each strategy is cross-linked to skills, genres, and Fountas & Pinnell reading levels to give you just-right teaching, just in time. With Jen's help you'll:

• develop goals for every reader
• give students step-by-step strategies for skilled reading
• guide readers with prompts aligned to the strategies
• adjust instruction to meet individual needs with Jen's Teaching Tips
• craft demonstrations and explanations with her Lesson Language
• learn more with Hat Tips to the work of influential teacher-authors.

Whether you use readers workshop, Daily 5/CAFE, guided reading, balanced reading, a core reading program, whole-class novels, or any other approach, The Reading Strategies Book will complement and extend your teaching. Rely on it to plan and implement goal-directed, differentiated instruction for individuals, small groups, and whole classes.

"We offer strategies to readers to put the work in doable terms for those who are still practicing," writes Jen Serravallo. "The goal is not that they can do the steps of the strategy but that they become more comfortable and competent with a new skill." With The Reading Strategies Book, you'll have ways to help your readers make progress every day.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780325074337
Publisher:	Heinemann
Publication date:	05/20/2015
Pages:	400
Sales rank:	21,041
Product dimensions:	7.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	5 - 13 Years

About the Author

Jennifer Serravallo is the author of New York Times' bestseller The Reading Strategies Book as well as other popular Heinemann professional books, including The Writing Strategies Book. The new Strategies to Go: The Jennifer Serravallo Digital Companion brings the strategies book together with notetaking capabilities and more to extend strategy-driven, goal-based instruction further than ever. Jen's newest print titles are Teaching Writing in Small Groups (which includes selections transadaptated to Spanish); Understanding Texts & Readers; A Teacher's Guide to Reading Conferences; Connecting with Students Online; and the Spanish-language counterparts to her strategies books, El libro de estrategias de lectura and El libro de estrategias de escritura. She is also the author of Teaching Reading in Small Groups as well as The Literacy Teacher's Playbook, Grades K - 2 and Grades 3 - 6. Jen's Complete Comprehension: Fiction and Complete Comprehension: Nonfiction are assessment and teaching resources that expand upon the comprehension skill progressions from Understanding Texts & Readers and offer hundreds more strategies like those in The Reading Strategies Book. Additionally, Jen is the author of the On-Demand Courses Strategies in Action: Reading and Writing Methods and Content and Teaching Reading in Small Groups: Matching Methods to Purposes, where you can watch dozens of videos of Jen teaching in real classrooms and engage with other educators in a self-guided course. Jen is a member of Parents Magazine Board of Advisors for education and literacy. She began her career in education as a NYC public school teacher and later joined the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project at Columbia University. Through TCRWP, and now as an independent consultant, she has spent over a decade helping teachers across the country to create literacy classrooms where students are joyfully engaged and the instruction is meaningfully individualized to students' goals. Jen holds a BA from Vassar College and an MA from Teachers College, where she has also taught graduate and undergraduate classes. Learn more about Jen and her work at https://www.heinemann.com/jenniferserravallo/, on Twitter @jserravallo, on Instagram @jenniferserravallo, or by joining The Reading and Writing Strategies Facebook Community.