Teaching Writing in Small Groups

Jennifer Serravallo's Teaching Writing in Small Groups explores the significant impact that purposeful, responsive teaching can have on students in just a few minutes. This book details essential practices for optimizing small groups, providing strategies to value each child's language and literacy practices, develop relationships with student writers, teach with efficiency, increase student engagement, improve independence, and foster social support among students.

The foundation for success is laid out in the book, with guidance on creating effective groups and making instruction responsive, clear, and memorable. Differentiated instruction is streamlined with a menu of small-group options, including strategy lessons, guided writing, shared writing, interactive writing, inquiry groups, reflection groups, and coaching writing partnerships and clubs. The book also includes twelve videos of writers from Kindergarten to seventh grade, demonstrating each type of small group, as well as selected passages and forms available in Spanish in the Online Resources. Additionally, downloadable skill-progression note-taking forms provide focus for instructional decision making, and the "Take It to Your Classroom" feature supports implementation for individuals or study groups.

Jennifer Serravallo has thought of everything in Teaching Writing in Small Groups. The book addresses the question of not whether small groups work, but how to make the most of them. Read this book to learn how just a few minutes of purposeful, responsive teaching can make a big impact on your students.

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