Choice Literacy Articles & Videos
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Heather Fisher and Ruth Ayres discuss fueling creativity.
Fueling creativity is the theme of this week’s newsletter.
This is the first guided reading group in September for Cheryl Miller. She concludes the lesson by having students share their understanding of the text and reviewing skills that were practiced. This is the final video in a three-part series.
This is the first guided reading group in September for Cheryl Miller. She continues the lesson by listening to the students whisper read and instructing them as needs arise. This is the second video in a three-part series.
Leigh Anne Eck and Ruth Ayres discuss secondary readers.
Secondary readers is the theme of this week’s newsletter.
Cathy Mere and Ruth Ayres discuss assessing readers.
Assessing readers is the theme of this week’s newsletter.
Deb Gaby confers with Riley about The Lemonade War. They talk about the writing about reading that students are doing for this whole-class read.
Matt Renwick reminds us that there is a lot of information available in our classrooms that can inform instruction. Some of it is “hiding in plain sight,” for example reading logs.
Gretchen Schroeder shares the way she adjusts her reading quizzes to assess students’ analysis and deep thinking about texts.
The Choice Literacy Book Club discusses So You Want to Be an Owl by Jane Porter and Maddie Frost.
Getting started with writing is the theme of this week’s newsletter.
Stella Villalba shares books that will fuel your creativity and nourish your imagination.
Matt Renwick gives five phrases every writer should put at the top of a draft, and then explores the way doing so can help develop creativity.
Shari Frost shares ways teachers can show that they “see” and appreciate each student every single day.
Gretchen Schroeder supports her high school students to think deeply about the complexities around them, beginning with themselves and pop culture, and then moving to the texts they are reading.
Christy Rush-Levine confers with Logan over his reading response to Fat Boy vs. the Cheerleaders and Noggin 13th Reality. She helps him think about the plausibility of the story and what constitutes a worthy problem in literature.
Katherine Sokolowski makes a case for the importance of reading aloud to secondary students and offers suggestions to make it a reality. She includes a list of five surefire read aloud books for middle school students.
In this video, Austin reads his writing and shares his next steps by self-recording a video to upload to the Learning Management System.
In this Quick Take video, Ruth Ayres shares different ways writers can enter a writing project.
Tammy Mulligan promotes independence in her student writers by supporting them in creating writing plans. A download of a planning template is included so your students can create writing plans, too.
Jen Court gives 10 ways for students to share and celebrate their work as writers. Two downloads are included for you to use in your classroom.
Cathy Mere and Ruth Ayres discuss using picture books in literacy instruction.
Using picture books is the theme of this week’s newsletter.
Katherine Sokolowski shares a book list that inspires her to teach five different kinds of conflict.
Stella Villalba compiles a book list about the topic of home. She shares the way she allows students to co-construct their own understanding of home by using picture books that provide a variety of lenses through which to view the topic.
Hayley Whitaker leads a minilesson in kindergarten on story structure.
Cathy Mere and Ruth Ayres discuss making workshop work.
Making workshop work is the theme of this week’s newsletter.
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