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

"Effective reading strategies are like my favorite recipes; they teach you how to accomplish something that is not yet automatic in a broken down, step-by-step manner." - Jennifer Serravallo, The Reading Strategies Book: Your EVERYTHING Guide to Developing Skilled Readers Jennifer Serravallo created the ultimate book of reading strategies. This resource is a must have have for schools! Let me explain in terms of who can benefit: - Campus Leadership: Assistant principals usually coordinate the RtI process and instructional intervention plans. This books will help identify and create individual goals for learners, determine the appropriate strategy and give you ideas for intervention lessons. Best of all, these can be implemented IN the classroom setting by the teacher.In my experience as an assistant principal, I often got responses like, "He can't read. She struggles with reading. He doesn't try to sound out words. She is not on grade level in reading. He has so may gaps, I don't know where to start." This book will help teachers: identify specific instructional goals identify guidelines for readers to practice and apply strategies give helpful feedback to move the reader forward - Literacy Specialist/Instructional Coach: This resource can help with coaching conversations with individual teachers or grade level teams. - Classroom Teacher: This is truly a comprehensive book to help you develop individual reading goals or goals for reading strategy groups. This a a GREAT resource for reading strategy groups. The lessons in this book can fit into any balanced literacy program. The book is organized around the following goals (chapters) for developing skilled readers: - Supporting Pre-Emergent and Emergent Readers - Teaching Reading Engagement: Focus, Stamina, and Building a Reading Life - Supporting Print Work: Increasing Accuracy and Integrating Sources of Information - Teaching Fluency: Reading with Paraphrasing, Intonation, and Automaticity - Supporting Comprehension in Fiction: Understanding Plot and Setting - Supporting Comprehension in Fiction: Thinking About Characters - Supporting Comprehension in Fiction: Understanding Themes and Ideas - Supporting Comprehension in Nonfiction: Determining Maint Topic(s) and Idea(s) - Supporting Comprehension in Nonfiction: Determining Key Details - Supporting Comprehension in Nonfiction: Getting the Most from Text Features - Improving Comprehension in Fiction and Nonfiction: Understanding Vocabulary and Figurative Language - Supporting Students' Conversations: Speaking, Listening, and Deepening Comprehension - Improving Writing About Reading Each chapter starts with a research-based explanation of WHY the goal is important to developing skilled readers. Serravallo also gives you suggestions on how to assess students, because it crucial that the strategy matches the child's goal and the texts they are reading. Strategy lessons include the following (depending on the lesson): - Level - Genre/Text Type - Skill - Strategy - Prompts - Teaching Tips - Language Lesson - Visuals See my full review (with visuals) here: http://loriesqualls.com/2015/07/11/the-reading-strategies-book/ HIGHLY RECOMMEND!!

In The Reading Strategies Book, Jennifer Serravallo provides an invaluable resource for educators seeking effective ways to enhance reading instruction. With 300 actionable strategies linked to thirteen specific reading goals—ranging from fluency to literary analysis—this comprehensive guide makes the often-invisible work of reading accessible and clear for both teachers and students. Serravallo offers practical tools for developing individualized goals, providing step-by-step strategies, and guiding students with prompts tailored to their needs. Each strategy is carefully cross-referenced with relevant skills, genres, and Fountas & Pinnell reading levels, allowing teachers to deliver just-right instruction when it's needed most. The inclusion of Teaching Tips and Lesson Language further equips educators with the resources to craft effective demonstrations and explanations. Whether you utilize readers workshop, guided reading, or any other approach, The Reading Strategies Book is designed to enhance your teaching practice and support goal-directed, differentiated instruction for individuals, small groups, and whole classes. This essential guide will empower teachers to cultivate skilled, confident readers and is a must-have for anyone committed to fostering a love of reading in their students.

This book by Jennifer Serravallo is perfect for anyone who teaches reading, from classroom teachers to literacy coaches to interventionists, student teachers to tutors. It is packed with explicit, easy-to-follow reading strategies, organized into 13 reading goals. These strategies will help readers develop skills they need to read, comprehend, analyze, and discuss both fiction and non-fiction. Each page contains a teaching point, possible trajectories for strategy instruction, prompts, tips, examples of charts to use, and guidance for which readers will benefit most from the identified strategy. Not a book you will read and leave on your shelf, Serravallo provides teachers with a "cookbook" for their instruction. I found myself thinking of particular students or groups of students as I perused its pages with tabs and highlighter in hand. It filled me with anticipation for the new school year! Depending on the readers you work with, you will find yourself drawn to different reading goals, whether it be reading engagement, fluency, fiction comprehension (plot, setting, characters, theme), nonfiction comprehension (text features, main ideas, details), speaking and listening, writing about reading, vocabulary and figurative language, and more. This isn't a book you have to read from cover to cover; the easy-to-use table of contents invites you to target specific goals and find the strategies that are just-right for your readers. Concise, student-friendly, and purposeful, the teaching points and instruction framework are ready to put into practice immediately. You will keep this book at your fingertips as you move through the year. Once again, Jennifer Serravallo delivers a text that will benefit all who encounter its pages, and I highly recommend this "everything guide" for anyone who teaches reading!

One of the only teaching books that is really useful as a platform to inspire your teaching and to have a stock of useful ideas that have been tried and tested. Huge book! Wish it was on kindle too.

Molto interessante e sicuramente utile. Perfetto per trovare ispirazione e spunti per delle lezioni di scrittura mirate. Molto chiaro nell'esposizione.

This is a great book. I teach grade 1 and there are tons of strategies in here. On each page is a different strategy with possible prompts for different levels of support, visual examples of anchor charts, and reading levels this strategy is helpful for. It's nice to have a recipe book of strategies for students struggling with various aspects of reading. I was sold when I saw a picture another reviewer posted of the inside of the book (thanks for that). Biggest bang for your buck if you teach primary because of the lower level specific strategies suitable for emergent readers, but this resource will still be super useful when I inevitably teach a junior or intermediate grade. I shared it with my colleagues and everyone ended up buying one. I shared it with a literacy teacher and it looks like my school board will offer a book club on it next year. One of the best books I've ever purchased, for sure.

Best book! Totally worth it!

Really great book, perfect for unpacking strategies, easy to follow, a wonderful teacher guide!