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.
There may be a group of students somewhere less eager to learn than a class of high school seniors during the last weeks of school, but that group would be as tough to find as Bigfoot or the Loch Ness monster. Gretchen Schroeder discovers a surprising cure for senioritis —modern poetry.
Franki Sibberson demonstrates how much ground can be covered in a three-minute conference with a student. She helps fourth grader Pierce think through the audience for his writing, how to add visuals to blog posts, and enlists him to teach others new skills as he acquires them.
Student research is the focus of this week’s Big Fresh.
Chris Lehman has tongue-in-cheek suggestions for helping students learn to hate the research process.
Katherine Sokolowski finds late in the year is the perfect time for launching a fiction writing unit with her fifth graders.
Kelly Petrin shares the power of response journals with preschoolers.
Here is the second installment of our round-up of summer reading choices by contributors.
We explore summer reading resources in this week’s Big Fresh.
Our contributors share what's in their reading stack this summer.
How do you guide students to select books for independent summer reading? Aimee Buckner challenges teachers who are requiring middle students to pick books based solely on Lexile scores.
Katherine Sokolowski adapts an idea from Jim Burke to get her fifth graders outdoors and envisioning their growth over the summer.
Books can help children deal with the toughest challenges in life. In a new booklist, Andie Cunningham shares her top picks for stories about characters grappling with the death of a loved one.
Katie DiCesare helps first grader Ava craft beginnings and endings for her nonfiction writing.
In kindergarten, table groups are a natural and informal way to help groups of students learn new skills through eavesdropping. In this short video from Mandy Robek's kindergarten class, Mandy targets the same skill of defining syllables during individual conferences at the table so that the learning is reinforced for all.
We explore small group instruction in this week’s Big Fresh.
Shari Frost considers the “go-to” instructional strategy for struggling readers, word study, and explores how to make it work well in a case study of a third-grade group.
Katie DiCesare brings together a group of her first-grade students who are reading nonfiction, helping them to expand the ways they share what they are learning with classmates.
Karen Terlecky meets with two fifth graders who both share the same need identified on a recent formative assessment, inferring character traits.
Are your adolescent readers present in body but not necessarily in spirit by springtime? We've featured the "book madness" bracket activity in the past for elementary students. Gretchen Schroeder finds the ranking, competition, and passionate discussion about favorite books is just what her high school students need to get their heads back in the reading game.
Writing nonfiction is the topic of this week’s Big Fresh.
Shari Frost explains the power of shared writing in intermediate classrooms, especially for struggling learners.
We provide multiple perspectives on comprehension instruction in this week’s Big Fresh.
Stella Villalba confers with first grader Jocelyn about the information text she is writing about bunnies. Jocelyn is an English language learner, and this conference demonstrates the value of oral rehearsal for young ELL writers.
Choice Literacy contributors share favorite online tools. This is the second installment in a two-part series.
Heather Rader discovers subheadings are a neglected but useful tool for teaching students about key topics in their writing.
We've all experienced that moment in a parent conference. You finish your spiel, which includes assessment data, charts, and an anecdote or two about the child. And when you're finished, the parent asks, "But how is my child doing?" Melissa Kolb explores the reasons why there can be a mismatch between our sense of useful information in parent conferences and a parent's expectations.
Melissa Styger rethinks the way she teaches reading strategies, emphasizing putting them to use over defining them.
Maria Caplin continues her series on sparking vocabulary learning, this time highlighting fun activities.
In this video from Katie Baydo-Reed’s 8th grade classroom, Katie confers a student about his favorite Rick Riordan books and his plans for future reading.
Choice Literacy contributors share their favorite online reading and writing tools. This is the first installment in a two-part series.
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