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.
Cathy Mere and Ruth Ayres discuss student-led learning on the podcast.
This week’s newsletter is about student-led learning.
Christy Rush-Levine circulates for quick conferences as students complete their literary analysis essays.
Heather Fisher shares how to rebrand data meetings as mining meetings to turn anxiety and frustration into actionable and meaningful responses to data.
Dana Murphy describes an approach to “data-review days” that looks beyond numbers to the faces of kids and talks about all kids in all of their humanity.
Ruth Metcalfe releases responsibility to her first-grade class to create formative assessments and take ownership in their learning.
Tara Barnett outlines ways to offer choices for students to show their understandings of a book’s theme. Download a choice board and rubric.
This week’s newsletter is about reading identities.
The Choice Literacy Book Club discusses Unbound: The Life + Art of Judith Scott by Joyce Scott with Brie Spangler and Melissa Sweet.
Cathy Mere and Ruth Ayres discuss feedback to writers on the podcast.
This week’s newsletter is the second installment about feedback to writers.
Melissa Quimby offers a creative and practical idea to get to know students’ reading identities.
Mandy Robek shares ways to reorganize and revamp your classroom library to energize students as readers.
Christy Rush-Levine confers with Erica about her reading response to 13th Reality. She helps Erica consider character motivation.
Cathy Mere and Ruth Ayres discuss feedback to writers on the podcast.
This week’s newsletter is the first installment about feedback to writers.
Ruth Metcalfe is determined to make teaching points from writing conferences visible for her young multi-language learners. She offers a how-to guide for all teachers to do the same and make the teaching accessible to students even after the conference is over.
Matt Renwick reflects on the importance of building students’ identities as readers and writers and the power of a daily status of the class. Download a template to put this routine in place in your own classroom.
Josie Stewart and Hannah Tills ponder the importance of energizing writers with feedback. They offer tips to ensure feedback uplifts writers.
Bitsy Parks shares a simple three-part conferring kit that will position anecdotal notes to guide instruction.
Christy Rush-Levine shares her system for streamlining passing papers and offering a place for private feedback.
Cathy Mere and Ruth Ayres discuss reflective practice on the podcast.
This week’s newsletter is about persuasive writing.
Cathy Mere and Ruth Ayres discuss reflective practice on the podcast.
This week’s newsletter is about word work.
Melanie Meehan makes a case for the power of pictures to provide a foothold and access point for students to enter the writing pathway. She shares an example of using images to engage in persuasive writing strategies.
Leigh Anne Eck shares a tool to help students develop their persuasive voices, build community, and expand their perspectives. Included is a download to put opinion journals to work in your classroom.
Ruth Metcalfe candidly shares the way she tackles the transfer of reading skills with her small group by using cut-apart sentences.
Melanie Meehan shares insights to emphasize the importance of responding to emergent writers and understanding the progression of young writers.
Cathy Mere and Ruth Ayres discuss reflective practice on the podcast.
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