Her teacher seemed to put confidence in the fact that I teach, but I was clueless about teaching reading to a first grader. Each goal begins with a few pages of explanation on why that goal is important and how to know if it is right for your students. A, absolute must-have for your professional library. I highly recommend it. Within each goal, there are strategy lessons that address specific skills, levels, and genres. The strategies cover emergent readers to advanced readers. In The Reading Strategies Book, she collects 300 strategies to share with readers in support of thirteen goals-everything from fluency to literary analysis. The book is organized by 13 different "reading goals" that each meet the various reading levels/needs that elementary students might need to focus on. This book has definitely become one of my go-to resources.lots of good ideas/strategies to help kids think about different aspects of writing from early to middle grades.Outstanding ideas and direction for the teaching of writing. Most books about teaching reading require plowing through lots of pages about the author's philosophy and practices before getting to the good stuff...the stuff you can use in the classroom tomorrow. The Reading Strategies book will be among my tried and true books. A longtime fan and owner of Serravallo's other books, Reading Strategies is crown jewel in my 'teaching reading' trifecta. I can’t say enough, except that I also love Serravallo’s “Reading Strategies Book” —they are both a bit $, but well worth the 400+ pages of ideas. Jennifer has done it again!
This skill is about helping students understand that when they are reading they should read in phrases and not one word at a time.
All reading teachers need to have their own copy to cherish, dog-ear, mark up, and use forever.
Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. I can’t say enough, except that I also love Serravallo’s “Reading Strategies Book” —they are both a bit $, but well worth the 400+ pages of ideas. But it is chopped full of useful teaching ideas to improve students writing. "You can think of the goals as the what, "writes
This book is for K-8 tAn excellent resource for any teacher of reading and writing! It breaks down the strategy by Fountas and Pinnell text level gradient, genre/text type and skill. I am dying to get my hands on the reading strategy book now!This is another great resource from Jennifer Serravallo.
No matter how you run your reader's workshop, this resource is a must have. However, the class I teach is secondary based, and this text, for the most part, is primary based. I use this book regularly in my class to give students individual goals to work towards in their writing. Here you’ll find go-to strategies plus great book suggestions that are at a lower reading level yet still interesting to kids. The Reading Strategies Book made the New York Times Best Seller List by making it simpler to match students' needs to high-quality instruction. Full of lots of practical strategies to help teachers effectively teach writing.This is another excellent resource, created by Serravallo, for conferring and strategy-group teaching, this time for writers. Going into my second year of teaching elementary kids, this book really opened my eyes to reading strategies I had never even dreamed of but would really work well for students I had last year.
But I read the introduction and overview of the chapters. It will make you wish you wish it wasn't summer. This is my go-to book for reading instruction.If I could give this book 10 stars, I would. Not the case here! Great work Jen Serravallo! This is a book that will be referenced daily in your work to help students increase their skills on the path to becoming more engaged, more thoughtful, and just plain better readers.An excellent resource for any teacher of reading and writing! RT’s classroom-ready articles cover topics from curriculum, instruction, and assessment to strategies for teaching diverse populations of literacy learners. The inviting, easy to find pages with lots of charts and practical tips will invite you to start tabbing pages, highlighting and organizing yourself for next year! This book is full of wonderful strategies that fit beautifully with this curriculum. Use it for whole group, small group and focused interventions... Close those academic gaps. I can see this becoming a holy grail teaching program/resource in the coming years. The author, Jennifer Serravallo offers over 300 writing strategy mini lessons as well as example anchor charts you can create to go along with each. Direct and explicit teaching of reading is needed.
This book is full of great practical information for any writing teacher. This book is filled with numerous ideas for teaching young readers across book levels A-O. strategies are broken up by goal, which mimic goals that we might have as teachers as we help students navigate various text types. Even though I have never been a language arts teacher, I found that this book was somewhat relevant in that it brought to mind what had long been implicit strategies for myself. The kind of philosophy that doesn't worry about test scores at all but has great test scores because it's just great teaching. !Excellent resource for responsive literacy instruction. It also has teaching tips and prompts for every strategy. I also really love the sister book to this, The Reading Strategies Book by Jennifer Serravallo. The book is broken up into different goals including things like engagement, fluency, comprehension for fiction and nonfiction, and writing about reading. Teachers: if you want a fantastic reading resource, Jennifer’s handy 400+ page book is it! I can’t say enough, except that I also love Serravallo’s “Writing Strategies Book” —they are both a bit $, but well worth it! The Reading Strategies Book, by Jennifer Serravallo, is one of the most popular how-to-teach-reading books in use today. This is a book that will be referenced daily in your work to help students increase their skills on the path to becoming more engaged, more thoughtful, and just plain better readers.As teachers, we all have shelves of professional books that we have read and have gleaned an idea or two to use in our teaching, and even some that have transformed our approach to literacy (The Book Whisperer, What Readers Really Do, Notice & Note to name a few).