Skilled Writers' Comprehensive Writing Guide

The Writing Strategies Book (Spiral) by Jen Serravallo has made a significant impact, landing on the New York Times Best Seller List. This remarkable resource has made it simpler to match students' needs to high-quality instruction, much like the author's previous work, The Reading Strategies Book.

In this spiral-bound volume, Serravallo has collected an impressive 300 of the most effective strategies to share with writers, organizing them beneath 10 crucial goals. The book contains 300 charts, including 50 brand new ones, all enlarged and presented in a companion flipbook for easy access.

Serravallo explains that the goals represent the "what," while the strategies are the "how." From composing with pictures to addressing conventions and beyond, teachers will find just-right teaching strategies at just the right time.

With Jen's guidance, educators can: - Develop individual goals for every writer - Provide students with step-by-step strategies for writing with skill and craft - Coach writers using prompts aligned to a specific 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 - Learn more with Hat Tips to the work of influential teacher-authors

The book offers suggestions for stocking your writing center, planning units of study, celebrating student writing, and keeping records. Whether you use Writing Workshop, 6+1 Traits, Daily 5's "Work on Writing," a scripted writing program, or any other approach, you'll discover a wealth of strategies to work with whole classes, small groups, or individual writers.

Jen Serravallo is convinced that helping kids articulate clear goals for their work and supporting them with strategies and feedback to accomplish those goals makes a significant difference. With The Writing Strategies Book, you can make that kind of difference with your writers every day.

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