SOLD OUT: Jennifer Serravallo: Understanding Texts & Readers: Strategies for Comprehension – Orlando

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February 13 Orlando, FL/Reunion
Reunion Resort
7593 Gathering Drive Kissimmee, Florida 34747
Phone: 833.258.0472

TIME:  7:30-8:30 Registration; 8:30-2:30 Workshop
COST:  $225.00 without the book; $250.00 with the book (Understanding Texts & Readers)

THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT BUT PLEASE FILL OUT THE WAITLIST FORM:

Understanding Texts & Readers: Strategies for Comprehension 

Presented by Jennifer Serravallo

Overview:

Comprehension instruction can feel challenging: the reader variables, text variables, and figuring out how to make visible what’s invisible in students’ minds. In this workshop, Jen will help comprehension make sense. Leaning on the four fiction and four nonfiction comprehension goals she presented in The Reading Strategies Book, she will walk you through how to use text levels as a teacher’s tool to know what to expect of readers’ written and oral responses level-by-level and goal-by-goal.

With a foundational understanding of text levels and student response, you’ll then explore the ways that this knowledge can help you find the right goals and strategies for students. You’ll work with case studies to plan a sensible path for each student.

Finally, Jen will discuss and show videos of a variety of methods of teaching—individual conferences, small group strategy lessons, and whole class instruction—that you can use to put strategies in action in the classroom to support your readers as they work toward comprehension goals.

About the Author:

Jennifer Serravallo is the author of New York Times’ bestseller The Reading Strategies Book as well as other popular Heinemann professional books, The Writing Strategies BookTeaching Reading in Small Groups; and The Literacy Teacher’s Playbook, Grades K–2 and Grades 3–6. Her newest books are Understanding Texts & Readers, and A Teacher’s Guide to Reading Conferences.

In Spring 2019, Jen’s new Complete Comprehension: Fiction and Complete Comprehension: Nonfiction was released. This assessment and teaching resource expands upon the comprehension skill progressions from Understanding Texts & Readers and offers hundreds more strategies like those in The Reading Strategies Book.

Additionally, Jen is the author of the On-Demand Courses Strategies in Action: Reading and Writing Methods and Content and Teaching Reading in Small Groups: Matching Methods to Purposes, where you can watch dozens of videos of Jen teaching in real classrooms and engage with other educators in a self-guided course.

Jen began her career in education as a NYC public school teacher and later joined the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project at Columbia University. Through TCRWP, and now as an independent consultant, she has spent over a decade helping teachers across the country to create literacy classrooms where students are joyfully engaged and the instruction is meaningfully individualized to students’ goals.

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 https://www.heinemann.com/jenniferserravallo/, on Twitter @jserravallo, on Instagram @jenniferserravallo, or by joining The Reading and Writing Strategies Facebook Community.

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