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Fueling Creativity Podcast
The focus of this week's podcast is fueling creativity. Heather Fisher and Ruth Ayres join the conversation. Click here for ALL links discussed. Each week Choice Literacy shares the Big...
October 15, 2021: Fueling Creativity
The creative adult is the child who has survived. —Ursula K. Le Guin [Now you can listen to the Big Fresh as a podcast.] Choice, Independence, Collaboration, and Precision Sam,...
Guided Reading Part 3: Closure
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...
Guided Reading Part 2: Whisper Reading and Instruction
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...
Secondary Readers Podcast
The focus of this week's podcast is secondary readers. Leigh Anne Eck and Ruth Ayres join the conversation. Click here for ALL links discussed. Each week Choice Literacy shares the...
October 8, 2021: Secondary Readers
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. —Margaret Thatcher [Now you can listen to the Big Fresh as a podcast.] It Can Be...
Assessing Readers Podcast
The focus of this week's podcast is assessing readers. Cathy Mere and Ruth Ayres join the conversation. Click here for ALL links discussed. Each week Choice Literacy shares the Big...
October 1, 2021: Assessing Readers
A successful dinner is one that lasts awhile and one where everyone leaves happy. It's a meal where we didn't just wolf food down, rather something else happened at the...
Conferring Over Whole-Class Reading
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.
How to Use Students’ Reading Logs as a Formative Literacy Assessment
During an instructional walk in a third-grade classroom, all the students were reading independently. The teacher, conferring with one of her students, got up and started to come my way...
Reading Quiz
As a first-year teacher sifting through the file cabinets full of materials left from the previous teacher, I found a lot of reading quizzes and tests. I’m sure you know...
The Choice Literacy Book Club Discusses So You Want to Be an Owl
Enjoy listening as the Choice Literacy Book Club discusses So You Want to Be an Owl by Jane Porter and Maddie Frost. This year the Choice Literacy Book Club was formed....
September 24, 2021: Getting Started with Writing
I can shake off everything as I write. My sorrows disappear; my courage is reborn. —Anne Frank [Now you can listen to the Big Fresh as a podcast.] Give Energy!...
Books to Fuel Creativity and Imagination
It is only heavy because you are deciding over and over again to carry it. Embrace change, loosen up your sense of identity, let yourself walk a new path. You...
Five Phrases That Should Be at the Top of Every Writer’s First Draft
See it. Feel it. Hear it. Taste it. Smell it. This is it. This is what Patti McNair, memoirist and writing teacher, recommends to her students to place at the...
See Your Students
Nerd Camp 2019 featured a widely acclaimed author, Jason Reynolds. He delighted the participants with a story about his childhood. He told us about an event called a “Go-Go” that...
Learning to Notice and Analyze Complexities
If I had to choose one word to encapsulate the Advanced Placement Literature course, it would be complexity. This word shows up in almost every prompt: Analyze the complexity of...
Conferring Over Plausibility and Plot
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...
Finding Time for Read Aloud
Read aloud in middle school is a beast. When I taught elementary school, it was a no-brainer. My schedule would often have little 15-minute slots between PE and music, or...
Austin Makes Writing Plans
In this video, Austin reads his writing and shares his next steps by self-recording a video to upload to the Learning Management System. Read the companion article by Tammy Mulligan.
Helping Young Writers Make Plans
When I heard some of my first graders exclaim, “I’m done. What do I do now?” and “I don’t know what to do," or even worse, “What am I supposed...
