Teachers Ask Jen Serravallo
Summary: Teachers Ask Jen Serravallo brings the popular and familiar Ask… format to professional development podcasts for teachers. The questions come from real teachers like you, and Jen’s answers are brief, thoughtful, and succinct. Think of it as bite-sized PD, or just-in-time professional learning for teachers. Topics cover reading strategies, student engagement, reading assessment, reading conferences, read-aloud, small group instruction, guided reading, close reading, independent reading, reading workshop, book choice, motivating students, coaching, mentoring, and other topics that help teachers improve their inquiry-based and research-based teaching of reading and writing. Jennifer Serravallo is the author of several well-known books for educators, including The Reading Strategies Book, Literacy Teachers Playbook Grades 3-6, Literacy Teachers Playbook Grades K-2, Independent Reading Assessment - Fiction, Independent Reading Assessment - Non-fiction, Teaching Reading in Small Groups, and Conferring with Readers. Her website is www.jenniferserravallo.com. She is a frequent blogger and is active on Twitter @jserravallo and on other social media.
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Welcome to Season 2, Episode 12! In this episode, Jen responds to this question: “I’m curious about what your conferring notes look like. Do you have conventions or abbreviations that you use find work to communicate between co-teachers? What are you writing down specifically? I would find it helpful to see what proficient conferring teachers’ [...]
Welcome to Season 2, Episode 11! In this episode, Jen responds to two question from Mary. First: “What kind of professional development do you recommend for reading specialists working with K-2 students?” And then: “When it comes to struggling readers – what should take priority? Skills or time spent reading?” Thank you, Mary! The answer [...]
Welcome to Season 2, Episode 10! In this episode, Jen responds to a question from Lisa: “In a K/1 classroom, what is your ideal balance for guided reading, strategy groups, and conferring during independent reading? I have trouble fitting it all in! my principal really pushes guided reading, so that’s where my focus has been, [...]
Welcome to Season 2, Episode 9! In this episode, Jen responds to a question from Carol: “What kind of reading responses would you want students in grades 3-5 to write in their reading notebook during the first few weeks of class?” Thank you, Carol! Carol’s question is specific, but Jen broadens her response to address [...]
Welcome to Season 2, Episode 8! In this episode, Jen responds to a question from Glenda: “I work with 2-5 grade LA teachers. One topic that comes up is reserving titles for certain grade levels. I can understand a couple of titles for read alouds, but at some point I feel like it’s unfair to [...]
Welcome to Season 2, Episode 7! In this episode, Jen responds to a question from a teacher who wises to remain anonymous: “Can you share suggestions on how we can include parents in our conversation about how to grow readers and writers? The balanced literacy approach is uncomfortable for many parents. This often leads to [...]
Welcome to Season 2, Episode 6! In this episode, Jen responds to a question from Dani: “I would love if you could share any ideas on how you do encourage home involvement. That’s really what a reading log assesses, I think. I really don’t want to do a reading log, but I think parents may [...]
Welcome to Season 2, Episode 5! In this episode, Jen responds to three questions, all related to reading logs: Lorie asks, “Reading logs: essential tool or love-of-reading killer?” Jessie asks, “Is there a point when keeping reading logs should become the reader’s choice? If so, when is it okay to provide students with that choice?” [...]
Welcome to Season 2, Episode 4! This episode’s question comes from Katie Limbaugh Foristal: “How do you teach Reading Workshop with a basal?” As Jen says, a big question in very few words. Thank you, Katie. Subscribe in iTunes Do you have a question? You can ask it on the Teacher Learning Sessions Facebook page. [...]
Welcome to Season 2, Episode 3! In this episode, Jen answers this question from Tracey: “I want to assess my students (2nd graders) using our F&P assessment kit to find their current reading levels. What tips do you have to assess them (all 32 of them) in a timely manner? It still takes me a [...]
Welcome to Season 2, Episode 2! In this episode, Jen answers this question from Tricia: “My building is being asked by our principal to focus on improving the appropriate use of capitals and punctuation with our students. I would love to offer ideas that are workshop-friendly.” Thank you very much for your question, Tricia. Subscribe [...]
Welcome to Season 2! We are so grateful for the opportunity to bring you more episodes. Thank you for all your support for Season 1. In this episode, Jen answers this question from Angela Perry Fairless: “I am a first grade teacher after 16 years in second. I never used centers in my second grade [...]
This episode marks the end of Season 1 of Teachers Ask Jen Serravallo! Season 2 of Teacher Ask Jen Serravallo will launch in September of 2016. Until then, the episodes from Season 1 will appear weekly in your podcast feed. In a few months we will start offering short-form professional development video from Jen. You’ll be [...]
Welcome to episode #21! In this episode, Jen answers a question focused on non-fiction and one of the most challenging aspects of reading… “What are some strategies for third and fourth grade students still struggling with main idea?” Thank you for the question! Subscribe in iTunes Do you have a question? You can ask it [...]
Welcome to episode #20! In this episode, Jen answers a question from Glenda… “How does a guided reading group look different in the upper grades vs. primary? How do I plan for it?“ Thank you for the question, Glenda! Subscribe in iTunes Do you have a question? You can ask it here, where you can [...]
