Overview 

Don’t let reading instruction get all 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 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.

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

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.