The Reading Strategies Book by Jennifer Serravallo

The Reading Strategies Book by Jennifer Serravallo

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.

Visit heinemann.com/readingstrategiesbook/ where you'll find blog posts, videos from Jen Serravallo, community features, and more information on The Reading Strategies Book.

Jennifer Serravallo is the author of The Reading Strategies Book, a New York Times bestseller, as well as The Writing Strategies Book, Teaching Reading in Small Groups, and The Literacy Teacher's Playbook, Grades K - 2 and Grades 3 - 6. Teaching Writing in Small Groups (due out in March 2021) and Communicating with Students Online are her newest books, from which she will donate a portion of the proceeds to organizations that help students affected by COVID-19. Understanding Texts & Readers, A Teacher's Guide to Reading Conferences, and the Spanish-language counterparts to her strategies books, El libro de estrategias de lectura and El libro de estrategias de escritura, are among her other recent books. Jen's Complete Comprehension: Fiction and Complete Comprehension: Nonfiction are assessment and teaching materials that build on the comprehension skill progressions from Understanding Texts & Readers and provide hundreds of additional tactics similar to those found in The Reading Strategies Book. Jen is also the creator of the On-Demand Courses Strategies in Action: Reading and Writing Approaches and Content, as well as Teaching Reading in Small Groups: Matching Methods to Purposes, where you may see hundreds of videos of Jen teaching in actual classrooms and participate in a self-guided course with other educators.

Jen is a member of the Parents Magazine Education and Literacy Board of Advisors. She began her career in teaching as a NYC public school teacher before joining Columbia University's Teachers College Reading and Writing Project. She has spent over a decade helping teachers throughout the country establish literacy classrooms where kids are joyously engaged and instruction is meaningfully personalized to students' goals, first through TCRWP and now as an independent consultant. Jen received her BA from Vassar College and her MA from Teachers College, where she also taught graduate and undergraduate courses.

Learn more about Jen and her work by visiting https://www.heinemann.com/jenniferserravallo/, following her on Twitter @jserravallo, or following her on Instagram @jenniferserravallo.