Choice Literacy Articles & Videos
The Choice Literacy library contains over 3,000 articles and 900 videos from 150+ contributors. Classic Classroom and Literacy Leadership subscribers have access to the entire library. Content is updated continuously, with five to six new features published each week.
This week’s newsletter is about inspiring renewal.
This week’s newsletter highlights Choice Numeracy.
This week’s newsletter is about generative AI.
This week’s newsletter is about generative AI.
Tammy Mulligan uses role-play to help her class process different ways to respond to challenging behavior situations. In this video clip, Tammy shares the rationale behind this practice and gives us a glimpse into her students role-playing a situation and their conversations about possible responses.
Mallory Messenger delivers a step-by-step guide to setting personal goals in math. Inspired by the practice of setting independent reading goals, Mallory explored the benefits of personal math goals. Download the Student Math Goals Self-Assessment and Reflection.
Mandy Robek shares the way a Mock Caldecott project naturally connected to the math work happening in her third-grade class.
Jodie Bailey offers clear and concise ways to use number lines as a tool to solve many different kinds of problems.
Brian Sepe helps us understand the importance of prompting and offers a framework that will help us be more intentional and specific to leverage AI for our needs.
Tara Barnett and Kate Mills explore using AI to help with grading student writing. In this practical and insightful article, they share a process for using AI as a co-teacher and their reflection on whether it helped them save time (nope) and made their feedback more useful (yep). They share a downloadable student literary essay reflection sheet that you might want to use in your classroom, too.
This week’s newsletter is about nourishing independence.
Suzy Kaback is inspired by coding time and works with her students to develop an All the Writer Things tool to help writers reflect on their work as writers and become stronger and more efficient.
This week’s newsletter is about having fun with teaching and learning.
This week’s newsletter is about trusting students and letting go of unrealistic expectations.
From lesson planning to generating decodable texts, Dana Murphy shares five ways she uses AI as a reading interventionist.
Patty McGee offers strategies to intentionally help students transfer their grammar knowledge to authentic writing experiences in this final installment of the Not Your Granny’s Grammar series.
Grammar manipulatives create a helpful scaffold to allow students a chance to play and practice, leading to a greater likelihood of transferring skills to their writing. Patty McGee shares a few ideas for grammar manipulatives.
Gwen Blumberg shares a school-wide approach to a mock book award experience. This clear step-by-step guide with a rich resource download makes it possible to implement in any school.
Patty McGee positions us to consider a fresh approach to grammar instruction in this first installment of a three-part series.
Becca Burk turned to her students when her class needed an idea for a school-wide door-decorating contest. She was reminded of the importance of trusting students and uplifting their voices.
This week’s newsletter is about connecting with students so they can be positioned to learn.
Most teachers have, at some point, taken a picture of their class or a particular student and shared that photo with a family, but what if teachers became more intentional about taking and sending pictures? Tiffany Abbott Fuller gives practical ideas for using photos to increase family engagement.
Becca Burk shares her new learning about how the brain responds to trauma and the way she uses neuroscience to help respond to challenging behaviors in her classroom. Download a practical behavior sheet to help guide your responses to tricky behaviors.
This week’s newsletter is the second installment about keeping steady with wise instructional practices.
Mandy Robek knows how to nurture inquiry and collaboration in her classroom. She shares a process for supporting whole-class projects.
Bitsy Parks reminds us of the importance of taking time to talk, ask questions, and share thinking in a circle format. Community circle is a practice that strengthens an inclusive community.
This week’s newsletter is about keeping steady with wise instructional practices.
Heather Fisher writes a bold article addressing the many questions educators are facing about their values and beliefs when it comes to our classroom libraries in this time of a heavy emphasis on phonics instruction and decodable books.
Joanne Emery recommends using poetry to help children practice their oral expression. She offers many poetry books and strategies for fluency practice.
Dana Murphy reminds us that teaching students to read faster is often a surface-level answer to a much deeper question. Reading is a complex process; if you’re wondering what to do about oral reading fluency scores, then Dana offers powerful encouragement.
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