Live Webinar with Jennifer Serravallo at the MESD

$25

Goal-Directed Strategy Instruction
K-5 teachers, coaches, administration
4:15-6:15 April 18, 2016

• Understanding Readers • Crafting Strategies to Support Goals

• Selecting Just-Right Goals • Small Group Strategy Lessons

Participants will receive a 2 hour PDU certificate.

More Information

Come join fellow educators for a professional learning opportunity with Jennifer Serravallo via a live webinar. After viewing and engaging with Jennifer participants will enjoy some food and idea sharing based on their new understandings. Participants will receive a 2 hour PDU certificate.

Jennifer is the author of several books including Reading Strategies, The Literacy Teachers Playbook K-2 & 3-6, and Teaching Reading in Small Groups. While not required, Jennifer suggest participants have a copy of Reading Strategies for the Webinar. You can find Jennifer's books at Heinemann.com

Reading Strategies

“Strategies make the often invisible work of reading actionable and visible,” Jen writes. In The Reading Strategies Book, she collects 300 strategies to share with readers in support of thirteen goals—everything from fluency to literary analysis. Each strategy is cross-linked to skills, genres, and Fountas & Pinnell reading levels to give you just-right teaching, just in time

The Literacy Playbooks

National and state standards set learning goals, and it’s up to you to help each student find his or her path to meeting them. That’s why Jen opens up her thinking on assessment in this workshop-in-a-book. Her four-step protocol leads you toward goal-directed instruction:

collect the data that will be the most useful to you
analyze the data to understand deeply what kids know and can do
synthesize data from multiple assessments to create learning goals
develop instructional plans and follow-ups to monitor progress.

Teaching Reading in Small Groups

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:

using formative assessment to create groups of readers with common needs
differentiating for individuals, even when they’re in a group
enhancing your Tier 1 and Tier 2 instruction.