“Understanding subtle shifts and increases in demands from level to level can guide what a teacher asks a student, what the teacher expects of the student, and what the teacher, therefore, teaches the student.”
—Jennifer Serravallo
Jennifer Serravallo's new book, Understanding Texts & Readers, publishes next month, and we're excited to start giving you some sneak peaks of this dynamic new resource. Understanding Texts & Readers works in conjunction with The Reading Strategies Book, and helps you connect comprehension goals to text levels and reading responses.
In leveled spreads like the one pictured below, you are guided through goals and strategies for comprehension in a easy-to-understand format. This book will show you how to use levels as a tool to help with assessment, identifying goals for readers, and figuring out which strategies to teach.
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In this video, Jen walks us through how Understanding Texts & Readers is set up to build strong comprehension skills in both fiction and non-fiction.
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Understanding Texts and Readers can be ordered now. Learn more at Heinemann.com
Jennifer Serravallo is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Reading Strategies Book and The Writing Strategies Book, which have been translated into Spanish, French, and Chinese. These and her other popular books and resources help teachers make goal-directed responsive strategy instruction, conferring, and small group work doable in every classroom. Her newest titles are Teaching Writing in Small Groups, A Teacher’s Guide to Reading Conferences, Understanding Texts and Readers, and the assessment and teaching resource Complete Comprehension for Fiction and Nonfiction.
Jen is a frequently invited speaker at national and regional conferences and travels throughout the US and Canada to provide full-day workshops and to work with teachers and students in classrooms. She is also an experienced online educator who regularly offers live webinar series and full-day online workshops, and is the creator of two self-paced asynchronous online courses, most recently Strategies in Action: Reading and Writing Methods and Content.
Jen began her career in education as an NYC public school teacher. Now as a consultant, she has spent the last fifteen+ years helping teachers across the country create literacy classrooms where students are joyfully engaged, and the instruction is meaningfully individualized to students' goals. Jen is also a member of Parents Magazine Board of Advisors for education and literacy.
Jen holds a BA from Vassar College and an MA from Teachers College, where she has also taught graduate and undergraduate classes.
Learn more about Jen and her work at Hein.pub/serravallo, on Twitter @jserravallo, on Instagram @jenniferserravallo, or by joining The Reading and Writing Strategies Facebook Community.