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

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The Reading Strategies Book made the New York Times Best Seller List by making it simpler to match students’ needs to high-quality instruction. Now, in The Writing Strategies Book, Jen Serravallo does the same, 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:

develop individual goals for every writergive students step-by-step strategies for writing with skill and craftcoach writers using prompts aligned to a strategypresent mentor texts that support a genre and strategyadjust instruction to meet individual needs with Jen’s Teaching Tipsdemonstrate and explain a writing move with her Lesson Languagelearn more with Hat Tips to the work of influential teacher–authors.

She even 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, the writing exercises in your basal, or any other approach, you’ll discover a treasure chest of ways 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.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ 032507822X
Publisher ‏ : ‎ HEINEMANN
Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 27, 2017
Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 424 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 032507822X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0325078229
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.22 pounds
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 1 year and up
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8 x 1.06 x 10 inches
Grade level ‏ : ‎ Kindergarten – 8
Best Sellers Rank: #103,027 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #19 in Lesson Planning for Educators #78 in Education (Books) #117 in Reading & Phonics Teaching Materials
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