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

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.

"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 ReadersJennifer 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 goalsidentify guidelines for readers to practice and apply strategiesgive 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 ReadingEach 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- VisualsSee my full review (with visuals) here: http://loriesqualls.com/2015/07/11/the-reading-strategies-book/HIGHLY RECOMMEND!!

Necessary for all reading teachers! So many ideas for lesson planning and very easy to digest

This book is an amazing resource for teachers wanting to improve their implementation of reading strategies. There are many, many strategies included, with specific steps and instructions as to how to use them in your classroom. As you identify the goals for your student, you can determine what strategy would be appropriate, and look at samples of how to implement the intervention.Chapters in the book are organized by goals for developing skilled readers, with an explanation (with research) as to why each goal is important. There are also suggestions on how to assess, so the strategy matches the goal the student should be working towards. The strategies also cover a wide range of readers, from pre-emergent to level Z.One of my favorite parts of the book is the inclusion of why the goals are important; Jennifer Serravallo includes solid research-based explanations in regards to “why,” and this background knowledge can give teachers a better understanding of how to develop skilled readers.In addition to classroom teachers, reading teachers/specialists and literacy coaches would also find this book a handy addition to their libraries, as the strategies can be utilized across grade levels. The book would be a helpful resource to share during coaching sessions, as it is very teacher-friendly and easy to use. I have gone back to this book again and again; for veterans or new teachers, it is an invaluable tool!