Jennifer Serravallo Presents: Reading Strategies - Essential Research-Based Instruction for Every Classroom

Date and Time 

Full-day workshop from 10:00 am to 4:00pm Eastern Time (ET). 

• Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Please note that this virtual mini-workshop is scheduled for Eastern Time (ET). If you are in a different time zone, please plan your schedule accordingly.

Overview 

Drawing from the newly-released The Reading Strategies Book 2.0, a research-packed (700+ citations to the science of reading) revised and reimagined update to The New York Times’ bestselling resource, this workshop will help you use strategies effectively in your instruction—no matter what approach to literacy you use, or the grade level, developmental levels, or ages of the students you teach.

You’ll first learn about the broad research base for strategy instruction in reading and what makes an effective reading strategy. Then, you’ll learn about each reading goal: key research findings, skill progressions for systematic sequential teaching, tips for explicit teaching and feedback, and how to match assessments to strategies that matter most.

Next, you’ll move into grade-band breakout groups led by Jen’s colleagues to learn about each goal, practice assessing student work, and watch videos of Jen and her colleagues teaching K-8 readers in a variety of whole class and small group formats. This day will be comprehensive and cover a lot of content, engage you with activities and equip you to take what you learned back to the classroom right away.

**PLEASE NOTE that participants will be invited to actively use The Reading Strategies Book 2.0 during the workshop; please have your copy on hand.

Learning Objectives 

• Develop an understanding of research base for reading strategies, goal-directed instruction, and for each reading goal.

• Learn practical strategies for assessing and evaluating reading.

• Use skill progressions to identify strategies and track progress.

• Craft strategies and feedback prompts and learn to match them to student goals.

• Learn practical ways to guide student practice through conferences and small groups, and how to match methods to purposes.

• Explore practical ways to manage differentiation, including notetaking and scheduling.

Who Should Participate 

Classroom teachers of grades K-8, literacy coaches, school administrators, professors of education, school librarians, curriculum coordinators, and ELA supervisors.

Teaching Reading Across the Day Virtual Institute

This full-day, interactive, online institute led by author Jennifer Serravallo is based on her new release with Corwin: Teaching Reading Across the Day. In this institute, she’ll teach nine effective, predictable, research-based lesson structures participants  can use whether teaching English language arts, science, or social studies in grades K-8. Through explanation, activities and videos, attendees will learn the pacing and structures of each lesson type, as well as high-leverage, research-based practices that are important across all lesson types such as building vocabulary and knowledge, incorporating responsiveness, making appropriate text choices, and keeping students highly engaged. Throughout, Jen will connect to the science of teaching reading—sharing key research studies and replicated findings—and also speak to the art of teaching—honoring teachers’ craft and decision-making.

All teachers of any subject area (ELA, science, social studies, etc), coaches, and administrators are welcome and encouraged to attend.

Title: The Science of Reading includes Strategy Instruction!

Description: Learn about the broad research base for strategy instruction in reading, and the when, how, and how much of strategy instruction to support comprehension alongside knowledge-building. The workshop begins with an overview of key research findings and quickly moves into practical ideas you can use right away in your school or classroom no matter your curriculum or approach to literacy: from skill progressions for systematic sequential teaching, to tips for explicit teaching and feedback, to hands-on practice evaluating student work to match students to strategies. You'll also watch excerpts of videos to see strategies coming to life in the classroom during whole class and small group instruction. 

Orlando, Florida

This full-day, interactive, online institute led by author Jennifer Serravallo is based on her new release with Corwin: Teaching Reading Across the Day. In this institute, she’ll teach nine effective, predictable, research-based lesson structures participants  can use whether teaching English language arts, science, or social studies in grades K-8. Through explanation, activities and videos, attendees will learn the pacing and structures of each lesson type, as well as high-leverage, research-based practices that are important across all lesson types such as building vocabulary and knowledge, incorporating responsiveness, making appropriate text choices, and keeping students highly engaged. Throughout, Jen will connect to the science of teaching reading—sharing key research studies and replicated findings—and also speak to the art of teaching—honoring teachers’ craft and decision-making.

All teachers of any subject area (ELA, science, social studies, etc), coaches, and administrators are welcome and encouraged to attend.

Date and Time 

Full-day workshop from 10:00 am to 4:00pm Eastern Time (ET). 

• Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Please note that this virtual mini-workshop is scheduled for Eastern Time (ET). If you are in a different time zone, please plan your schedule accordingly.

Overview 

Drawing from the newly-released The Reading Strategies Book 2.0, a research-packed (700+ citations to the science of reading) revised and reimagined update to The New York Times’ bestselling resource, this workshop will help you use strategies effectively in your instruction—no matter what approach to literacy you use, or the grade level, developmental levels, or ages of the students you teach.

You’ll first learn about the broad research base for strategy instruction in reading and what makes an effective reading strategy. Then, you’ll learn about each reading goal: key research findings, skill progressions for systematic sequential teaching, tips for explicit teaching and feedback, and how to match assessments to strategies that matter most.

Next, you’ll move into grade-band breakout groups led by Jen’s colleagues to learn about each goal, practice assessing student work, and watch videos of Jen and her colleagues teaching K-8 readers in a variety of whole class and small group formats. This day will be comprehensive and cover a lot of content, engage you with activities and equip you to take what you learned back to the classroom right away.

Learning Objectives 

• Develop an understanding of research base for reading strategies, goal-directed instruction, and for each reading goal.

• Learn practical strategies for assessing and evaluating reading.

• Use skill progressions to identify strategies and track progress.

• Craft strategies and feedback prompts and learn to match them to student goals.

• Learn practical ways to guide student practice through conferences and small groups, and how to match methods to purposes.

• Explore practical ways to manage differentiation, including notetaking and scheduling.

Who Should Participate 

Classroom teachers of grades K-8, literacy coaches, school administrators, professors of education, school librarians, curriculum coordinators, and ELA supervisors.

Luncheon keynote speech for the Massachusetts Reading Association Annual Conference, followed by a book signing.

Date and Time 

Full-day workshop from 10:00 am to 4:00pm Eastern Time (ET). 

• Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Please note that this webinar series is scheduled for Eastern Time (ET). If you are in a different time zone, please plan your schedule accordingly.

Overview

Don’t let reading instruction get all of the attention—research is clear that in classrooms with near-even amounts of writing and reading instruction, students not only write better but they also read better. Join Jennifer Serravallo, author of The Writing Strategies Book; Teaching Writing in Small Groups; and other popular titles—and her colleagues for a full day deep dive into strategies and structures for teaching writing that will make the biggest difference in your classroom, no matter your curriculum or approach.  

We’ll begin the day by exploring the research base for writing strategy instruction, writing process, and explicit instruction. You’ll learn about Jen’s hierarchy of writing goals, how to craft strategies and locate mentor texts to use in your writing, and how her skill progressions can support your efforts to set writing goals and progress monitor as you teach whole class and small group lessons. For a good part of the day, you’ll join colleagues in grade-band specific breakout rooms so you can look at student work aligned to the grade you teach, and watch videos of Jen and her colleagues teaching. During this time, you’ll learn the essential components of effective writing instruction and a variety of methods to match purpose.  

Learning Objectives

• Determine goals in writing through use of formative assessment

• Understand how strategies can be an essential scaffold to support new skill development and transition students to independence

• Understand writing as a process

• Craft effective strategies from a study of mentor texts and our own writing processes

• Learn a variety of structures and methods for teaching writing in explicit, engaging ways

• Understand the elements of effective feedback and how to guide writers through moments of productive struggle during lessons

• Develop systems to manage a range of goals and needs within the same classroom, including ideas for note-taking and scheduling differentiated instruction 

Who Should Participate

Classroom teachers of grades K-8, literacy coaches, reading and language arts specialists, content area (history, social studies, science) teachers interested in learning about how to teach writing, curriculum coordinators and administrators, and college professors of education.

When students need to demonstrate how they read complex texts with comprehension, and
how to craft well-written constructed responses, strategies can be a tremendous support. When
we are scaffolding their way toward independence, we need to offer children clear, explicit,
responsive instruction every step of the way, and in every grade level.

This workshop will draw from the newly-released The Reading Strategies Book 2.0, a research-
packed (700+citations to the science of reading) revised and reimagined update to the NYT
bestselling resource, and The Writing Strategies Book (aligned to the WWC/ies research
practice guide for effective writing instruction). You’ll first learn about the broad research base for strategy instruction and what
makes an effective reading strategy. Then, you’ll learn about reading and writing goals, and how
to leverage reciprocity between them.

Next, we’ll explore examples of texts and tasks on one standardized assessment to identify
what goals, skills, and strategies students will need. (Note: We anticipate the majority of our
audience will be joining from TX so we will be looking at STAAR. However, participants from all
states are welcome to attend as the overarching principles, strategies, and processes will apply
broadly to any standardized texts and tasks.) We will also explore demands related to text
complexity, and the presenters will offer suggestions for how to support students’ reading of
texts that are too hard.

Then, you will spend time in K-2 and 3-8 grade-band breakout groups led by two of Jen’s
colleagues to drill down to grade-specific expectations leaning on skill progressions from The
Reading Strategies Book 2.0 and Teaching Writing in Small Groups. We’ll explore strategies
that best align to the grade-specific skills and task expectations. In this highly interactive portion
of the day, we’ll analyze student work and watch video demonstrations of Jen and her
colleagues teaching in K-8 classrooms. You’ll also learn different methods of instruction to
scaffold comprehension and written response to reading across the school day. We will
explore, for example, how conversation can serve as both a support for comprehension and as
a way to rehearse written responses–and we’ll show videos to demonstrate how teachers can
and should play an active role in teaching explicitly during discussions. As another example, we’ll study how different methods of teaching writing –from shared writing to focus lessons–offer
different levels of support depending on the age and experience level of your students.

It is possible to run a research-based literacy classroom that is filled with authentic, meaningful
experiences that also transfers to student success on the end-of-year standardized assessment,
and Jen and her colleagues will show you how! This full day will be jam-packed, interactive, and
highly practical, equipping you to take what you learned back to the classroom right away.

Drawing from the newly-released The Reading Strategies Book 2.0, a revised and reimagined update to the NYT bestselling resource, this workshop will help you use strategies effectively in your instruction—no matter what approach to literacy you use, or the grade level, developmental levels, or ages of the students you teach.

You’ll first learn about the broad research base for strategy instruction in reading and what makes an effective reading strategy. Then, you’ll learn about reading goals and skill progressions for each goal which will equip you to target the just-right strategies for each reader. You’ll learn streamlined ways to evaluate student work to save planning and prep time.

The final portion of the workshop will lean on Jen’s book A Teacher’s Guide to Reading Conferences, exploring strategies coming to live in the classroom through conferences and small group instruction. You’ll learn purposes aligned to each conference and small group type, and about the most impactful teacher moves you can use within them to maximize student learning. Through video, engaging activities, and clear presentation, this workshop is designed to be highly practical and immediately applicable. 

Part 4 of a four part series exploring reading and writing strategies and structures. Join in progress!

Overview

Drawing from the newly-released The Reading Strategies Book 2.0, a revised and reimagined update to the NYT bestselling resource, this webinar series will help you use strategies effectively in your instruction—no matter what approach to literacy you use, or the grade level, developmental levels, or ages of the students you teach.

You’ll first learn about the broad research base for strategy instruction in reading and what makes an effective reading strategy. Then, you’ll learn about reading goals and skill progressions for each goal which will equip you to target the just-right strategies for each reader. You’ll learn streamlined ways to evaluate student work to save planning and prep time.

The final portion of the webinar series will lean on Jen’s book A Teacher’s Guide to Reading Conferences, exploring strategies coming to life in the classroom through conferences and small group instruction. You’ll learn purposes aligned to each conference and small group type, and about the most impactful teacher moves you can use within them to maximize student learning. Through video, engaging activities, and clear presentation, this webinar series is designed to be highly practical and immediately applicable.

Learning Objectives

Participants will:

• Develop an understanding of the research base for reading strategies, goal-directed instruction, and each reading goal

• Learn to study student work to determine goals

• Use skill progressions to identify strategies and track progress

• Craft strategies and feedback prompts and learn to match them to student goals

• Learn practical ways to guide student practice through conferences and small groups, and how to match methods to purposes

• Explore practical ways to manage differentiation, including notetaking and scheduling

Audience

Online and classroom teachers Grades K-8, administrators, curriculum coordinators, reading specialists, writing teachers, literacy specialists, learning coaches.

Canadian Registration - Join in progress!

Overview

Drawing from the newly-released The Reading Strategies Book 2.0, a revised and reimagined update to the NYT bestselling resource, this webinar series will help you use strategies effectively in your instruction—no matter what approach to literacy you use, or the grade level, developmental levels, or ages of the students you teach.

You’ll first learn about the broad research base for strategy instruction in reading and what makes an effective reading strategy. Then, you’ll learn about reading goals and skill progressions for each goal which will equip you to target the just-right strategies for each reader. You’ll learn streamlined ways to evaluate student work to save planning and prep time.

The final portion of the webinar series will lean on Jen’s book A Teacher’s Guide to Reading Conferences, exploring strategies coming to life in the classroom through conferences and small group instruction. You’ll learn purposes aligned to each conference and small group type, and about the most impactful teacher moves you can use within them to maximize student learning. Through video, engaging activities, and clear presentation, this webinar series is designed to be highly practical and immediately applicable.

Learning Objectives

Participants will:

• Develop an understanding of the research base for reading strategies, goal-directed instruction, and each reading goal

• Learn to study student work to determine goals

• Use skill progressions to identify strategies and track progress

• Craft strategies and feedback prompts and learn to match them to student goals

• Learn practical ways to guide student practice through conferences and small groups, and how to match methods to purposes

• Explore practical ways to manage differentiation, including notetaking and scheduling

Audience

Online and classroom teachers Grades K-8, administrators, curriculum coordinators, reading specialists, writing teachers, literacy specialists, learning coaches.

Drawing from the newly-released The Reading Strategies Book 2.0, a revised and reimagined update to the NYT
bestselling resource, this workshop will help you use strategies effectively in your instruction—no matter what
approach to literacy you use, or the grade level, developmental levels, or ages of the students you teach.

 You’ll first learn about the broad research base for strategy instruction in reading and what makes an effective reading strategy. Then, you’ll learn about reading goals and skill progressions for each goal which will equip you to target the just-right strategies for each reader. You’ll learn streamlined ways to evaluate student work to save
planning and prep time.

The final portion of the workshop will lean on Jen’s book A Teacher’s Guide to Reading Conferences, exploring strategies coming to life in the classroom through conferences and small group instruction. You’ll learn purposes aligned to each conference and small group type, and about the most impactful teacher moves you
can use within them to maximize student learning. Through video, engaging activities, and clear presentation, this workshop is designed to be highly practical and immediately applicable.

Learning Objectives
Participants will:

• Develop an understanding of research base for reading strategies, goal-directed instruction, and for each reading goal.

• Learn to study student work to determine goals

• Use skill progressions to identify strategies and track progress

• Craft strategies and feedback prompts and learn to match them to student goals

• Learn practical ways to guide student practice through conferences and small groups, and how to match methods to purposes

• Explore practical ways to manage differentiation, including notetaking and scheduling

Who Should Attend:

Teachers, Teacher Coaches, Curriculum Directors, Teacher Assistants, Administrators

Overview

Drawing from the newly-released The Reading Strategies Book 2.0, a revised and reimagined update to the NYT bestselling resource, this webinar series will help you use strategies effectively in your instruction—no matter what approach to literacy you use, or the grade level, developmental levels, or ages of the students you teach.

You’ll first learn about the broad research base for strategy instruction in reading and what makes an effective reading strategy. Then, you’ll learn about reading goals and skill progressions for each goal which will equip you to target the just-right strategies for each reader. You’ll learn streamlined ways to evaluate student work to save planning and prep time.

The final portion of the webinar series will lean on Jen’s book A Teacher’s Guide to Reading Conferences, exploring strategies coming to life in the classroom through conferences and small group instruction. You’ll learn purposes aligned to each conference and small group type, and about the most impactful teacher moves you can use within them to maximize student learning. Through video, engaging activities, and clear presentation, this webinar series is designed to be highly practical and immediately applicable.

Learning Objectives

Participants will:

• Develop an understanding of the research base for reading strategies, goal-directed instruction, and each reading goal

• Learn to study student work to determine goals

• Use skill progressions to identify strategies and track progress

• Craft strategies and feedback prompts and learn to match them to student goals

• Learn practical ways to guide student practice through conferences and small groups, and how to match methods to purposes

• Explore practical ways to manage differentiation, including notetaking and scheduling

Audience

Online and classroom teachers Grades K-8, administrators, curriculum coordinators, reading specialists, writing teachers, literacy specialists, learning coaches.

Bringing Strategies to Life: Reading with Fluency (Part 2)

I’m delighted to be partnering with MAIS — the Mediterranean Association of International Schools — to offer a series of workshops about assessing, goal-setting, and finding the right strategies for readers and writers. This session focuses on using the hierarchy to find goals, and how to conduct goal-setting conferences.

Keynote
Title: Reading Strategies: Essential Teaching for Every Classroom
Description: Reading strategies offer children the essential "how to" to accomplish any goal or skill: from engaging with their reading, to decoding and blending to read words accurately, to reading fluently, to understand what they read. Reading strategies make teaching more explicit, and support independence, and they belong in every classroom, no matter your curriculum or your approach to literacy instruction. In this keynote, Jennifer Serravallo will review the broad and deep research-based strategy instruction, what makes an effective strategy, and how to use goals and skill progressions to identify the right strategy at the right time--whether planning (or supplementing) curriculum or making decisions for differentiated instruction.

Session
Title: Bringing Strategies to Life: Small Group Instruction in the K-8 Classroom
Description: Drawing from Jennifer Serravallo’s Teachers Guide to Reading Conferences and Teaching Writing in Small Groups, this workshop will show you how just a few minutes of purposeful, responsive teaching can have a big impact with your students. The emphasis will be on essential practices for optimizing small groups that will help you teach with efficiency, improve independence, and support your students' skill development. The engaging videos and Jen’s ability to break down complex concepts into actionable, doable steps will equip participants to be able to try out the ideas right away. 

Invited keynote speaker for the 2023 annual winter conference of GACIS.

Drawing from the newly-released The Reading Strategies Book 2.0, a revised and reimagined update to the NYT bestselling resource, this workshop will help you use strategies effectively in your instruction—no matter what approach to literacy you use, or the grade level, developmental levels, or ages of the students you teach.

You’ll first learn about the broad research base for strategy instruction in reading and what makes an effective reading strategy. Then, you’ll learn about reading goals and skill progressions for each goal which will equip you to target the just-right strategies for each reader. You’ll learn streamlined ways to evaluate student work to save planning and prep time.

The final portion of the workshop will lean on Jen’s book A Teacher’s Guide to Reading Conferences, exploring strategies coming to live in the classroom through conferences and small group instruction. You’ll learn purposes aligned to each conference and small group type, and about the most impactful teacher moves you can use within them to maximize student learning. Through video, engaging activities, and clear presentation, this workshop is designed to be highly practical and immediately applicable. 

I’m delighted to be partnering with MAIS — the Mediterranean Association of International Schools — to offer a series of workshops about assessing, goal-setting, and finding the right strategies for readers and writers.