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

<p><em>The Reading Strategies Book</em> made the <em>New York Times</em> Best Seller List by making it simpler to match students' needs to high-quality instruction. Now, in <em>The Writing Strategies Book, </em> Jen Serravallo does the same, collecting 300 of the most effective strategies to share with writers, and grouping them beneath 10 crucial goals.</p> <p>You can think of the goals as the <em>what</em>, writes Jen, and the strategies as the <em>how</em>. 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: </p> <ul> <li>develop individual goals for every writer</li> <li>give students step-by-step strategies for writing with skill and craft</li> <li>coach writers using prompts aligned to a strategy</li> <li>present mentor texts that support a genre and strategy</li> <li>adjust instruction to meet individual needs with Jen's Teaching Tips</li> <li>demonstrate and explain a writing move with her Lesson Language</li> <li>learn more with Hat Tips to the work of influential teacher-authors.</li> </ul> <p>She even offers suggestions for stocking your writing center, planning units of study, celebrating student writing, and keeping records.</p> <p>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 in