Content Category: Choice Literacy
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Create-Your-Own Reading Challenge
Beginnings are a great time to look ahead, make plans, or set goals. For teachers, beginnings can be a new calendar year, a new school year, a new grading period,...
Invitations to Reading a Variety of Genres
Moving to middle school years ago I noticed right away that my students didn’t seem to understand genre any better than my elementary kids had. I wanted to explore genre...
The Choice Literacy Book Club Discusses The Proudest Blue
Enjoy listening as the Choice Literacy Book Club discusses The Proudest Blue by Ibtihaj Muhammad, S.K. Ali, and Hatem Aly. The Choice Literacy Book Club is open to everyone! You will...
April 1, 2022: Poetry Part 2
There are things you do because they feel right and they make no sense and they make no money and it may be the real reason why we are here:...
Picture of the Week
“Mrs. Parks, can you take a picture?” is a common question that I hear throughout the day. For better or worse, my smartphone and iPad camera have become an extension...
Poetry Part 1 Podcast
The focus of this week's podcast is the first installment about poetry. Each week Choice Literacy shares the Big Fresh newsletter with a round-up of features around a key topic...
March 25, 2022: Poetry Part 1
Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like the muscles of your body. —Lynn Jennings Mental Rehearsal On my high school track team, I once had a coach...
Novels in Verse (Booklist)
When I have a student who has a difficult time building reading stamina, staying motivated to read, or feeling confident about their reading, I consider their book choices. Many times...
Age Poems
Poetry can be hard to teach, in my experience. Anytime I mention the words poetry or poems, my students tend to groan. So I work hard all year to find...
Rehearsal for Writers Podcast
The focus of this week's podcast is about rehearsal for writers! Ruth Ayres, Tara Barnett, and Kate Mills join the conversation. Each week Choice Literacy shares the Big Fresh newsletter...
March 18, 2022: Rehearsal for Writers
You can't edit a blank page. —Nora Roberts An Elixir for Writers Giving space to talk is one of the secret weapons of teachers of writers. I used to believe...
Making Data Personal Podcast
The focus of this week's podcast is about making data personal and more! Ruth Ayres and Cathy Mere join the conversation. Each week Choice Literacy shares the Big Fresh newsletter...
March 11, 2022: Making Data Personal
I try to challenge myself each week to do something a little different or something maybe a little more exciting or personalized. —Jessica Mendoza Make It Personal My friend Jenny...
Student-Led Learning Podcast
The focus of this week's podcast is about student-led learning and more! Ruth Ayres and Cathy Mere join the conversation. Each week Choice Literacy shares the Big Fresh newsletter with...
March 4, 2022: Student-Led Learning
What we do at NASA is inspiring. It's reaching, it's visionary, and it inspires people on Earth to try hard things. —John M. Grunsfeld &; Figure Things Out My son Sam...
Circulating During Writing Workshop
Christy Rush-Levine circulates for quick conferences as students complete their literary analysis essays.
Mining the Data
DATA. This four-letter word is an essential component in moving our instruction forward. Yet since I started in the role of coach some eight years ago, it has also become...
Making Data Review More Personal
As I finished reading the email from my principal, I exhaled a heavy sigh. “Teachers, don’t forget,” the email read, “tomorrow is data review. Please be on time for your...
Student-Created Assessments
Excitement was high during a game of Mystery Word this week. Markers poised above their whiteboards, the kids waited for me to slip the next word under the projector. As...
A Perfect Opportunity for Choice: Showing Theme
In our first whole-class novel study, one of my goals for the unit was for students to make progress toward mastering this standard: RL.7.2. Determine a theme or central idea...
February 24, 2022: Reading Identities
Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn't you—all of the expectations, all of the beliefs—and becoming who you are. —Rachel...
