The Writing Strategies Book by Jennifer Serravallo

The Writing Strategies Book by Jennifer Serravallo

Jennifer Serravallo's book on reading strategies (now revised in The Reading Strategies Book 2.0) made the New York Times Best Seller List by making it simpler to match students' needs to high-quality, research-aligned instruction. In The Writing Strategies Book, Jen brings the same practical approach, 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:

• 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
• anchor students' writing with 300 illustrative visuals--50 of which are new

She even offers suggestions for stocking your writing center, planning units of study, celebrating student writing, and keeping records.

Whether you use a national writing program, a scripted writing program, the writing exercises in your basal, or any other approach, you'll discover a treasure chest of research-aligned strategies 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. And check out the classroom-ready visuals in The Writing Strategies Book Companion Charts.

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.