Course Overview:
Drawing from Jennifer Serravallo's best-selling resources, The Reading Strategies Book and The Writing Strategies Book, this on-demand course will help you understand how to find goals for your readers and writers and how to support them over time in individual, small group, and whole class lessons as they work toward those goals. Jen's new online course will guide you with over three dozen videos designed to help you learn both content and methods, so you can bring strategies to life in your classroom.
Course Objectives:
- Determine just-right goals for each student in your class for both reading and writing
- Understand how to craft effective strategies and offer students valuable feedback on their practice
- Learn how to support students as they read and write using pictures/illustrations/photos
- Know how to increase student engagement in reading and writing
- Support students' use of print work strategies as they read, and spelling strategies as they write
- Understand skills and strategies that best support students as they read and write informational texts
- Understand skills and strategies that best support students as they read and write narrative texts
- Know how to encourage effective collaboration and conversation in reading and writing
- Become familiar with whole-class balanced literacy structures and methods to support your students, such as minilessons, read alouds, and shared readings
- Become familiar with structures for individual conferring in reading and writing
- Develop comfort with small-group instruction for reading and writing
Session Titles:
Session 1: Finding the Right Goals for Readers and Writers
Session 2: Strategies and Feedback
Session 3: Using Pictures to Read and Write
Session 4: Engaging Readers and Writers
Session 5: Focusing on Print Work and Spelling (This session is being heavily revised according to new research. A replacement will be available shortly.)
Session 6: Reading and Writing Nonfiction
Session 7: Reading and Writing Narrative
Session 8: Conversations and Collaboration: Supporting Partners and Clubs
Book discount offer: Participants are strongly encouraged to have a copy of The Reading Strategies Book and The Writing Strategies Book, and a 30% book discount code for both books is provided to Serravallo's on-demand course students. To receive the 30% discount off our list price of either or both books, order your book(s) online and enter DCJSBK in the "Add a coupon code" field at checkout.
Credit/CEUs:
On completion of this course, you will be awarded a certificate for 30 contact hours, or 3 CEUs.
This is an On-Demand Course presented by Heinemann Online PD. Course access is 365 days from the date it is activated.
Note: We encourage group participation; however, we require that each person be registered and be included in the subscription payment. For group pricing information please call 800-541-2086, ext. 1100.
