Teaching Reading in Small Groups by Jennifer Serravallo

Teaching Reading in Small Groups by Jennifer Serravallo

For teachers who sometimes feel as if data-based instruction, differentiated groupings, and formative assessments somehow involve going over to The Dark Side, this book is a powerful antidote. It will help you know that you can hold tight to your deepest beliefs about children and literature, classrooms communities, and good teaching. Lucy Calkins
Author of Units of Study for Teaching Reading

In Teaching Reading in Small Groups, Jennifer Serravallo extends the powerful teaching that made Conferring with Readers a hit and helps you meet instructional challenges effectively and efficiently.

Jen shows how small groups help you uncover hidden time in your teaching for meeting individual students' needs. You'll work more closely with more children each day with her how-tos on:

• using formative assessment to create groups of readers with common needs
• differentiating for individuals, even when they're in a group
• enhancing your Tier 1 and Tier 2 instruction.

You'll see how Jen captures the strength of individual conference while working with multiple students-even if they aren't reading the same book. For comprehension, fluency, engagement, print work strategies, and comprehension, she shares ideas for assessment and flexible grouping structures as well as her own teaching language. You'll help readers:

• get into texts and get more out of them
• learn vital strategies that help them read more challenging texts
• talk about books with rigor and vigor.

When we supplement individual conferences with small-group conferences, writes Jennifer Serravallo, we work more efficiently and can deal well with higher benchmarks, larger class sizes, and the increasing demands placed on readers and teachers. Trust a master teacher and read Teaching Reading in Small Groups to find out how small groups can make a big difference in your classroom.

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.