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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.
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Connecting to Text: First-Grade Conference
Bitsy Parks confers with first grader Leo early in the school year, reinforcing the basic principle of making connections to text while reading.
Joy
Katrina Edwards deals with a frustrated writer on the verge of tears in her first-grade classroom. She realizes the element that is missing in her writing workshop is joy.
Celebrating and Nudging: First-Grade Writing Conference
Bitsy Parks takes time to celebrate first grader Colson’s finished writing, even as she nudges him to try a technique shared in the day’s minilesson.
Reconsidering Reading Workshop Routines
Andrea Smith realizes her normal reading routine will not work within the constraints of this year’s schedule. She makes some radical changes to ensure she and her students can have enough time to find the joy in reading and building a literate community.
Sketchnoting as a Response to Reading
Dana Murphy tries sketchnoting during professional development, and soon finds herself sharing the fun technique with students. They hone their skills during read alouds and while annotating texts.
The Big Fresh June 24, 2017 Meeting the Challenge
We look at book-a-day and other fun challenges in this week’s Big Fresh.
Building a Next-Read Stack
Katherine Sokolowski helps fifth grader Abby build her next-read stack of books.
The Benefits of #bookaday
Franki Sibberson finds the investment of five to seven minutes a day for #bookaday with her third graders is truly time well spent.
#bookaday in Middle School
Jillian Heise rises to the challenge of reading a new picture book to her seventh and eighth graders each day all year long.
The Big Fresh June 17, 2017 Flimflam Man
We look at digital literacy in this week’s Big Fresh.
The Big Fresh June 10, 2017 Surf Lesson
We consider goals in this week’s Big Fresh.
Practical Ways to Connect Students and Goals
Kate Mills and Tara Barnett provide some practical tips for connecting students and goals.
Brave Writers
Katrina Edwards has her students think of something brave they did for a writing share session.
Student-Designed Development Cards
Melanie Meehan finds that student-designed development cards are a great way to get students invested in literacy goals.
Video Games and Literacy
Matt Renwick finds there is value in connecting video games and literacy in classrooms, once he and the teachers he works with can get past their leeriness.
The iPad Is 7
Jennifer Schwanke reflects upon how the iPad and other touchscreen devices have changed the way children interact with all texts, even traditional storybooks.
Digital Revision: Conferring with Aidan
In this week’s video, Gigi McAllister helps fourth grader Aidan revise his writing on the computer to flesh out character development.
The Basics of Teaching Internet Search Skills to Children
Bill Bass provides a range of search options for students, and encourages teachers to promote different tools in different contexts.
The Big Fresh June 3, 2017 Bearing Walls
We conclude our series on creative takes on formative assessment in this week’s Big Fresh.
Consistent Feedback in Writing Workshop
Carly Ullmer assesses how she can give consistent and meaningful feedback to every one of her many middle school students at least once a week.
Tapping into What Students Know
Melanie Meehan shares the value of assessing what students know first, and then tapping into this knowledge in new units.
Assessing Learning: Quick Conferences
Leslie Lloyd completes quick assessment conferences with her third graders after a lesson on “literal” and “nonliteral” language, based on standards from the Common Core.
The Big Fresh May 27, 2017 Tyranny of the Score
We look at creative takes on formative assessment in this week’s Big Fresh.
Creating an On-Demand Writing Checklist
On-demand writing can be a stressful assessment task for students, but it does mimic the type of writing many adults face in their professional lives. Tara Barnett and Kate Mills work with students to create an on-demand writing checklist.
Assessing Instruction in the Midst
Melanie Meehan shares some ways teachers can press the pause button in the midst of teaching to assess whether they are teaching the right lesson at the right time.
Expert Students
Christy Rush-Levine uses a quick assessment during writing workshop conferences to connect expert students with peers who might need assistance. She includes a video example of the practice.
The Big Fresh May 20, 2017 Lollipop Moments
We conclude our series on home/school connections in this week’s Big Fresh.
Building Community and Family Connections
Tara Barnett and Kate Mills share suggestions for connecting with parents over the summer and early in the school year, including some fun uses of technology.
Literary Analysis: Tone and Scholarly Writing
Christy Rush-Levine shares how to help student writers understand and develop a scholarly tone. The feature includes a video example of small-group instruction.
Stretching Writing in First Grade
Katrina Edwards helps first grader Lila stretch her writing about going to a park on a rainy day.
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