The Writing Strategies Book (Spiral): Your Everything Guide to Developing Skilled Writers

Jennifer Serravallo's book on reading strategies (now revised in The Reading Strategies Book 2.0) made the New York Times Best Seller List by making it simpler to match students' needs to high-quality, research-aligned instruction. In The Writing Strategies Book, Jen brings the same practical approach, collecting 300 of the most effective strategies to share with writers, and grouping them beneath 10 crucial goals.

"You can think of the goals as the what," writes Jen, "and the strategies as the how." From composing with pictures all the way to conventions and beyond, you'll have just-right teaching, just in time. With Jen's help you'll:

• give students step-by-step strategies for writing with skill and craft
• coach writers using prompts aligned to a strategy
• present mentor texts that support a genre and strategy
• adjust instruction to meet individual needs with Jen's Teaching Tips
• demonstrate and explain a writing move with her Lesson Language
• anchor students' writing with 300 illustrative visuals--50 of which are new

She even offers suggestions for stocking your writing center, planning units of study, celebrating student writing, and keeping records.

Whether you use a national writing program, a scripted writing program, the writing exercises in your basal, or any other approach, you'll discover a treasure chest of research-aligned strategies to work with whole classes, small groups, or individual writers.

"I am convinced that helping kids to articulate clear goals for their work," writes Jen Serravallo, "and supporting them with strategies and feedback to accomplish those goals, makes a huge difference." With The Writing Strategies Book you can make that kind of difference with your writers every day. And check out the classroom-ready visuals in The Writing Strategies Book Companion Charts.

Jennifer Serravallo is the author of The Reading Strategies Book 2.0 (the first edition was a New York Times' bestseller) and The Writing Strategies Book. These and some of her other titles have been translated into Spanish, French, Italian, and Chinese. Her popular books and resources help teachers make goal-directed, responsive, explicit strategy instruction doable in every classroom. Her newest titles are The Reading Strategies Book 2.0, The Reading Strategies Book 2.0 Companion Charts, The Writing Strategies Book Companion Charts, Teaching Writing in Small Groups, A Teacher's Guide to Reading Conferences, and the assessment and teaching resource Complete Comprehension for Fiction and Nonfiction.

Jen is a frequently invited speaker at national and regional conferences. She and her team of literacy specialists travel throughout the US and Canada to provide full-day workshops and to work with teachers and students in classrooms. She and her team are also experienced online educators who regularly offer live webinar series and full-day online workshops.

Jen began her career in education as an NYC public school teacher. Now as a consultant, she has spent the last twenty+ years helping teachers across the country create literacy classrooms where students are joyfully engaged, and the instruction is meaningfully individualized to students' goals. Jen served as a member of Parents Magazine Board of Advisors for education and literacy, and is on the NYC Reads Advisory Council as the city works to bring Science of Reading, Writing, and Learning-based practices to every classroom.

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, or Instagram @jenniferserravallo.