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Growth happens when students are active learners.
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Tailor your literacy instruction to the needs of your students.
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Planning meaningful literacy instruction takes time. You want more than good ideas. You want to access the right idea when you need it. You can save hours of scouring the web for tricks and scripts.
Be prepared to meet the needs of every student as a reader and writer.
You are an expert professional. With access to an organized multimedia library of articles, videos, and courses you’ll have the right resources to determine how to meet the unique needs of each student.
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When you meet students at their points of need, they grow as readers and writers.
The Right Idea When You Need It
We understand the pressures to reach a variety of learning needs and not enough time to do it. You want resources, but too many can be overwhelming. We organize our comprehensive resource library so it is easy to access practical ideas to tailor literacy instruction for your students.
MULTIMEDIA LIBRARY
Each week several new features are published and added to the multimedia library of more than 5000 articles, videos, and courses about essential literacy practices.
DIVERSE SCHOOLS
Our content features a variety of student populations and teaching situations from around the globe.
IN-THE-FIELD CONTRIBUTORS
There are more than 150 teachers and literacy leaders who contribute to the library. Most carry full-time contracts with schools.
SINCE 2006
We have been publishing the best literacy practices since 2006 and continue to add to the library 48 weeks of the year.
MEET SOME CONTRIBUTORS
Stephanie Affinito
author of leading literate Lives(2021) and literacy coaching(2018)
Stephanie is an educator in the Department of Literacy Teaching and Learning at the University at Albany.
Franki Sibberson
Author of digital reading (2018); still learning to read (2nd edition,2016) and many more
Franki is a thought leader in literacy and a past president of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).Â
Tammy Mulligan
co-AUTHOR OF It's all about the books(2021) AND assessment in practice (2018)
Tammy is an elementary teacher in Massachusetts.
MELANIE MEEHAN
AUTHOR OF THE RESPONSIVE WRITING TEACHER (2021) AND EVERY CHILD CAN WRITE (2019)
Melanie is an Elementary Writing and Social Studies Coordinator in Connecticut.
Ruth Ayres
AUTHOR OF enticing hard-to-reach writers (2018) AND more
Ruth is the editor in chief of the Choice Literacy site and the director of professional learning for a consortium of schools in northern Indiana.
Matt Renwick
author of reading by example(substack) and leading like a coach (2022)
Matt is an elementary principal in Wisconsin.
Jen Schwanke
Author ofThe Principal ReBoot: 8 Ways to Revitalize Your school leadership (2020) and You're the principal! Now what? (2018)
Jen is an administrator for Dublin City Schools in Ohio.Â
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Educators want to stay fresh with literacy instruction, but are so busy with students they don't always have the time.
Choice Literacy publishes and delivers the best K-12 literacy practices so that educators can empower their students as readers and writers.
At Choice Literacy we know that you want to be an educator who makes students’ lives better through literacy. In order to do that, you need access to comprehensive literacy resources delivered in a way that you will actually use. The problem is it’s hard to have time to prepare meaningful literacy instruction to meet the diverse needs of your students which makes you feel overwhelmed. We believe it’s plain wrong to turn to tricks and scripts for literacy instruction.
With over 150 in-the-field contributors, we understand the pressure to reach a variety of needs and not enough time to do it. This is why we hold true to workshop tenets like choice and ownership and share practical ways to plan and deliver literacy instruction straight to the point of student need.
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