Jen recommends using progressions as just-right tools to help. You can find her reading and writing progressions in the respective online resources for A Teacher’s Guide to Reading Conferences and Teaching Writing in Small Groups.
Below is the Fluency resource for A Teacher's Guide to Reading Conferences.
Here are some tips to figure out what a next goal might be:
Once you’ve decided on a goal, progressions help you set realistic milestones for marking a student’s growth.
Once ongoing assessment points to a new goal, the whole teaching cycle resets. You’ll select strategies to address the skills where growth can happen, set the goal with the student one-on-one and share strategies with them, use small groups to lock in their learning, and reassess to keep the virtuous cycle going.
In this challenging year, children need you like never before. Your expertise will make all the difference, and Jennifer Serravallo’s books and resources can help smooth the path forward so that you can spend more of your time meeting the needs of your learners.
For more on assessment and reading progressions to support it, try Jennifer Serravallo’s Understanding Texts & Readers and A Teachers’ Guide to Reading Conferences. For writing progressions, Teaching Writing in Small Groups.