Empowering Small Group Instruction for Reading and Writing: IL ASCD Online
Join Jennifer Serravallo for a hands‑on, research-rich exploration of reading and writing instruction in small groups—drawing directly from her books Teaching Reading Across the Day and Teaching Writing in Small Groups. Learn how targeted, responsive instruction in both reading and writing accelerates student growth and builds transferable skills across disciplines. Research shows that when reading and writing instruction are closely integrated, students deepen skills in both areas. In classrooms where teachers engage with readers and writers in small groups, students benefit from scaffolding—and gain greater independence faster. Explore what it looks like to implement small group instruction through flexible grouping, formative assessment, and explicit strategy work.
Reading Strategies: Essential Research-Based Instruction for Every Classroom
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 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.
Bringing Writing (and Drawing!) Strategies to Life
Jennifer Serravallo, author of the bestselling The Writing Strategies Book, is joined by award winning author-illustrator Jarrett Lerner (EngiNerds series of Middle Grade novels, the Geeger the Robot series of early chapter books, The Hunger Heroes series of graphic novel chapter books, and the Nat the Cat series, and the new A Work in Progress), and Darren Victory (award-winning journalist, former teacher, and current member of Jen’s consulting team) for an exploration of bringing writing strategies to life, and supporting our (teachers’ and students’!) creativity as we compose with words and pictures.
Wisconsin CESA 7: Implementing the Science of Reading Series
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 toidentify the right strategy at the right time--whether planning (or supplementing) curriculum or making decisions for differentiated instruction.
Oklahoma Reading Association: Keynote
Keynote
Title: Reading Strategies: Essential Teaching for Every Classroom
Description: 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, the grade level, the developmental levels, or the ages of the students you teach.
You’ll learn about the broad research base for strategy instruction in reading, ways to choose the right strategies for each reader based on reading goals and skill progressions. This keynote is designed to be highly practical with immediately applicable information.
MAIS Conference
Part 4 of a four part series exploring reading and writing strategies and structures. Join in progress!
Reading Strategies: Online Workshop for IL ASCD
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
National Louis University Webinar Series
Bringing Strategies to Life: Reading with Fluency (Part 2)
MAIS Conference
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.
Full-day Workshop: Reading Strategies
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.
MAIS Conference
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.