For teachers who sometimes feel as if data-based instruction, differentiated groupings, and formative assessments somehow involve going over to The Dark Side, this book is a powerful antidote. It will help you know that you can hold tight to your deepest beliefs about children and literature, classrooms communities, and good teaching. Lucy Calkins Author of Units of Study for Teaching Reading In Teaching Reading in Small Groups, Jennifer Serravallo extends the powerful teaching that made Conferring with Readers a hit and helps you meet instructional challenges effectively and efficiently. Jen shows how small groups help you uncover hidden time in your teaching for meeting individual students' needs. You'll work more closely with more children each day with her how-tos on: <ul>
<li>using formative assessment to create groups of readers with common needs </li> <li>differentiating for individuals, even when they're in a group </li> <li>enhancing your Tier 1 and Tier 2 instruction.</li> </ul>
You'll see how Jen captures the strength of individual conference while working with multiple students-even if they aren't reading the same book. For comprehension, fluency, engagement, print work strategies, and comprehension, she shares ideas for assessment and flexible grouping structures as well as her own teaching language. You'll help readers: <ul>
<li>get into texts and get more out of them </li> <li>learn vital strategies that help them read more challenging texts </li> <li>talk about books with rigor and vigor.</li> </ul>
"When we supplement individual conferences with small-group conferences," writes Jennifer Serravallo, "we work more efficiently and can deal well with higher benchmarks, larger class sizes, and the increasing demands placed on readers and teachers." Trust a master teacher and read Teaching Reading in Small Groups to find out how small groups can make a big difference in your classroom.

Teaching Reading in Small Groups: Differentiated Instruction for Building Strategic, Independent Readers

Education & Teaching

Jennifer Serravallo

Schools & Teaching

Heinemann

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

Each includes: <ul> <li>28 high-quality trade titles</li> <li>a unique whole-book assessment</li> <li>evaluation rubrics</li> <li>100+ reading strategies to share with readers</li> </ul> Chapter books challenge readers'' ability to synthesise and accumulate information, and sustain comprehension. Longer texts require readers to be more skilled around the goals of: <ul> <li>sustaining understandings about plots that have many events, and may include events out of order (flashback, foreshadowing)</li> <li>visualising settings which often change from chapter to chapter, and which may be unfamiliar to the reader</li> <li>tracking characters and their growth, changes, and relationships across time</li> <li>handling more difficult vocabulary and the richer use of figurative language</li> <li>determining themes by taking into account an entire long text, and using the book to uncover the meaning of symbolism.</li> </ul> Jennifer Serravallo''s Complete Comprehension: Fiction supports growth in these goals, all of which contribute to whole-text comprehension and engagement. Complete Comprehension provides everything you need to: <ul> <li>assess a student''s whole-book comprehension via each of the four goals</li> <li>evaluate their facility with the component skills of each goal to plan instruction</li> <li>teach reading strategies directly matched to the needs you identify.</li> </ul> For those familiar with Jen''s work, this Assess, Evaluate, Teach framework is connected to the comprehension progressions she defined in Understanding Texts & Readers and to the instructional ideas in The Reading Strategies Book. In Complete Comprehension, these three pillars of the framework each receive their own teaching guide. Assess Complete Comprehension includes 28 authentic trade books (two each at levels J to W) by award-winning and beloved authors on topics of interest to young readers. A student chooses from among the texts, then reads independently. As they read, labels affixed in the book cue them to pause their reading and write their answer in response to open-ended prompts on a provided response form. No instructional time is required to obtain these written assessments: Students read and answer prompts on their own while teachers can continue working with other students who are not engaged in the assessment. The Assess guide includes instructions on how to introduce the assessment to the whole class, how to gather and prepare your resources, how to administer the assessment with individual students, how to support book selection, and how and when to assess students. All of the prompts for all 28 books are also included for easy reference. Evaluate Once you''ve received a student''s response form, Jen''s commonsense rubrics in the Evaluate guide help you make sense of the responses and pinpoint opportunities for growth. Spend a short amount of time with these rubrics and your student''s response form in hand, typically 10 to 15 minutes when you first start getting to know the rubrics, and as little as 5 minutes with increased proficiency. Sample student responses from Jen''s own field research, keyed to the progressions she shared in Understanding Texts & Readers, help you determine whether a reader is approximating a skill, is proficient with it, or demonstrates exceptional understanding. Once you''ve evaluated each response on the form, use the Planning Form, a quick tally sheet, and the if-then table that recommends clear next steps pinpointed to the reader''s strengths and needs. The Evaluate guide includes a 4-step protocol for evaluation, suggestions for getting the most out of the rubrics, summaries of each included trade book, guidance on what to look for in students'' responses, and sample student responses. Teach Teachers love The Reading Strategies Book, and Complete Comprehension provides 100+ strategies in the Teach guide: 75+ strategies unique to Complete Comprehension and 20+ variations on some of the most foundational strategies from The Reading Strategies Book. Each strategy is on its own page, and formatted just like those in in The Reading Strategies Book, with classroom charts, lesson language, and mentor text suggestions. Organised with a chapter for each of Jen''s four comprehension goals for nonfiction and one for reader engagement, the Teach guide makes selecting the most beneficial strategy for a student easy.

Complete Comprehension Fiction

Heinemann USA

"As part of the Complete Comprehension: Nonfiction system, the Evaluate book focuses on analyzing students' responses to nonfiction books and determining readers' goals"--

Complete Comprehension, Fiction, Evaluate, Analyzing Responses and Determining Goals, c. 2019 9780325109770, 032510977X

Complete Comprehension, Fiction, Teach, Supporting Readers with Strategies, c. 2019 9780325109787, 0325109788

Complete Comprehension, Non Fiction, Evaluate, Analyzing Responses and Determining Goals, c. 9780325109800, 032510980X

Complete Comprehension, Non Fiction, Teach, Supporting Readers with Strategies, c. 2019 9780325109817, 0325109818

Independent Reading Assessment Fiction Teacher's Guide Grade 4

scholastic

INDEPENDENT READING ASSESSMENT: NONFICTION TEACHER'S GUIDE GRADE 4

Kate Waters

melvin-berger

Scholastic. Inc.

Jennifer Serravallo provides a blueprint for helping readers succeed. Her formula is simple: know your readers well and understand the challenges they’ll encounter at each step in their reading journey. Serravallo’s go-to guide shows how to find out what your readers need as they approach each level, starting with Level J. You’ll find descriptors of the complexity challenges for each level, organized into Fiction and Nonfiction sections. Serravallo shows you how turn what you know and learn about your readers into actionable instruction.

Understanding Texts and Readers: The Complete Comprehension Handbook

Scholastic Professional

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