Choice Literacy Articles & Videos
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This week’s newsletter is the first or two installments about deepening discussions.
Jen Vincent strengthens the authenticity of a share session in writing workshop by building and tending to relationships that honor a circle process originated in indigenous communities.
Dana Murphy guides us in listening and responding to students during strategy-building lessons to grow readers. In this example, she shows the complexity and nuances of direct instruction to build comprehension strategies.
This week’s newsletter considers reading invitations.
Tammy Mulligan organizes her second graders to teach reading seminars to their peers. She outlines the steps to make this engaging practice a reality in any classroom.
Leigh Anne Eck encourages students to create their own reading challenges to stretch their reading identities. Download the challenge to share with your students.
Katherine Sokolowski shares the genre invitations she issues to students to help them grow as readers.
This week’s newsletter is the second installment about poetry.
Bitsy Parks shares a Picture of the Week routine that builds real-life literacy skills, and documents and celebrates important moments throughout the school year.
Cathy Mere and Ruth Ayres discuss poetry on the podcast.
This week’s newsletter is the first installment about poetry.
Leigh Anne Eck curates a fantastic booklist of novels in verse for middle-grade and young adult readers.
Katherine Sokolowski immerses students in poetry with mentor texts about age and time to linger in thinking about their own ages. This combination invites poetry into classrooms and gives students space to embrace the genre by writing their own age poems.
Cathy Mere and Ruth Ayres discuss student-led learning on the podcast.
This week’s newsletter is about rehearsal for writers.
Cathy Mere and Ruth Ayres discuss student-led learning on the podcast.
This week’s newsletter is about making data personal.
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.
Christy Rush-Levine confers with Erica about her reading response to 13th Reality. She helps Erica consider character motivation.
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