Jennifer Serravallo (she/her/hers)
Jennifer Serravallo is a New York Times bestselling author, award-winning educator, literacy consultant, frequent speaker at state and national conferences, and former member of the Parents magazine editorial board. In 2023, she launched her podcast To the Classroom: Conversations with Researchers and Educators. Jen is best known for creating books and resources rooted in research that help make responsive, strategic, differentiated literacy instruction possible for all teachers.
Her latest book, Teaching Reading Across the Day, is now available from Corwin Literacy. Additional books include The Reading Strategies Book 2.0 (2023), Teaching Writing in Small Groups (2021), A Teacher’s Guide to Reading Conferences (2019), and Understanding Texts and Readers (2018). Her books and resources are used around the world: The Writing Strategies Book (2017) and The Reading Strategies Book (1st edition) (2015) have been translated into French, Chinese, and Spanish.
Her comprehension assessment and teaching resources, Complete Comprehension: Fiction and Complete Comprehension: Nonfiction, help teachers make sense of comprehension, especially in whole chapter books and book-length nonfiction texts. They were released in Spring 2019 and are available through Heinemann (Learn more: hein.pub/cc). Jen holds a BA from Vassar College and an MA from Teachers College, where she has also taught graduate and undergraduate classes.
2025 Sessions
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Bringing Strategies to Life: Reading with Accuracy and Fluency
Drawing from Jen’s best-selling resources on the teaching of reading, this workshop will help you to become adept at assessing and teaching to support students’… Read More →
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Teaching Writing in Small Groups
Drawing from Jennifer Serravallo’s Teaching Writing in Small Groups as well as The Writing Strategies Book, this workshop will show you how just a few… Read More →