The Literacy Teacher's Playbook, Grades K-2: Four Steps for Turning Assessment Data into Goal-Directed Instruction

The Literacy Teacher's Playbook, Grades K-2: Four Steps for Turning Assessment Data into Goal-Directed Instruction

by Jennifer Serravallo
ISBN-10:
0325053006
ISBN-13:
9780325053004
Pub. Date:
02/25/2014
Publisher:
Heinemann
ISBN-10:
0325053006
ISBN-13:
9780325053004
Pub. Date:
02/25/2014
Publisher:
Heinemann
The Literacy Teacher's Playbook, Grades K-2: Four Steps for Turning Assessment Data into Goal-Directed Instruction

The Literacy Teacher's Playbook, Grades K-2: Four Steps for Turning Assessment Data into Goal-Directed Instruction

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Overview

"Instead of glancing quickly and drawing a single conclusion, we can lean in and look with the same spirit of curiosity and interest that our youngest students have taught us to have."

-Jennifer Serravallo

"I wanted to write a book that helps you really see your students," writes Jennifer Serravallo. From a kindergartner's loops and pictures to a second grader's reading log, her Literacy Teacher's Playbook details exactly how she comes to understand them deeply and meet everyone's literacy needs-and the standards.

"My I-wish-I-knew-then-what-I-know-now experiences are the main inspiration for this book," writes Jen. So her workshop-in-a-book shares a powerful approach to assessment, planning, and teaching. Go beyond curriculum to develop differentiated reading and writing goals then plan targeted instruction with her four-step assessment protocol:

  • collect data-student work and everyday assessments-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.

"What you can pull out of a child's messy seat pocket is data." So Jen provides downloadable assessment packets from real children representing two puzzling types of young learners. Spread Marelle's packet out and let Jen model how she analyzes little kids' work. Next try a guided practice with Emre's work. Then you'll be ready to try it with your own students.

"My goal," writes Jen, "is to help you understand your students with the depth that allows you to tweak your units and ensure you're giving every student opportunities for success." Follow the play tens of thousands of teachers have succeeded with: trust Jen Serravallo and feel the confidence that comes from making winning instructional decisions based on powerful assessments.

Preview a sample chapter from the Literacy Teacher's Playbook, K-2.

NEW Printable Materials

word pdf Blank Reading Log Levels D-I

word pdf Blank Reading Log Levels J-M

word pdf Blank Reading Log Levels L+

word pdf Blank Re-reading Log Levels D-I

word pdf Blank Reading Interest Survey K-2

word pdf Blank Reading Interest Survey 3-6

word pdf Blank High-Frequency Word List

word pdf Blank Engagement Inventory


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780325053004
Publisher: Heinemann
Publication date: 02/25/2014
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 216
Product dimensions: 7.30(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

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, including The Writing Strategies Book. The new Strategies to Go: The Jennifer Serravallo Digital Companion brings the strategies book together with notetaking capabilities and more to extend strategy-driven, goal-based instruction further than ever. Jen's newest print titles are Teaching Writing in Small Groups (which includes selections transadaptated to Spanish); Understanding Texts & Readers; A Teacher's Guide to Reading Conferences; Connecting with Students Online; and the Spanish-language counterparts to her strategies books, El libro de estrategias de lectura and El libro de estrategias de escritura. She is also the author of Teaching Reading in Small Groups as well as The Literacy Teacher's Playbook, Grades K - 2 and Grades 3 - 6. Jen's Complete Comprehension: Fiction and Complete Comprehension: Nonfiction are assessment and teaching resources that expand upon the comprehension skill progressions from Understanding Texts & Readers and offer 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 is a member of Parents Magazine Board of Advisors for education and literacy. She 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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