Content Category: Choice Literacy
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Empowering Choice Podcast with Nawal Qarooni Casiano
The focus of this week's Big Fresh is empowering choice. Nawal Qarooni Casiano joins the podcast to discuss student-led lessons. Get the Big Fresh delivered straight to your inbox (it's...
January 8, 2021: Empowering Choice
Recipes tell you nothing. Learning techniques is the key. —Tom Colicchio [Now you can listen to the Big Fresh as a podcast!] A Process Open to Possibilities "I finally learned to...
Actively Recognizing Biases
Last year in our seventh-grade literacy class, months before the Black Lives Matter movement became a national topic of discussion, we read and discussed an article on the history of...
Choice Boards for Writing Workshop
One of the things we love the most about writing workshop is that it builds independence in students. When implemented as intended, writing workshop invites student writers to make choices...
Fresh Starts Podcast
The focus of this week's Big Fresh is fresh starts and setting goals. Stephanie Affinito joins the podcast to talk about coaching visions and menus. Get the Big Fresh delivered...
December 18, 2020: Fresh Starts
I love the big fresh starts, the clean slates like birthdays and new years, but I also really like the idea that we can get up every morning and start...
Digital Reading Podcast
The focus of this week's Big Fresh is digital reading. Get the Big Fresh delivered straight to your inbox (it's free)! Click here for ALL links discussed. Each week Choice...
December 11, 2020: Digital Reading
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could...tomorrow is a new day. —Ralph Waldo Emerson [Now you can listen to the Big Fresh as...
Writing Work Plans
As writers, we’ve all experienced that moment when intentions for writing don’t produce any actual writing. If we feel the pressure of where to start, what to focus on, or...
Assessing Writers Podcast
The focus of this week's podcast is assessing writers. Enjoy snippets of articles and make sure to check out the links to free articles and helpful links from around...
December 4, 2020: Assessing Writers
No one is born a writer. You must become a writer. In fact, you never cease becoming, because you never stop learning how to write. Even now, I am becoming...
First-Grade Writing Conference: Beginnings, Middles, and Ends
In this first-grade writing conference, Katrina Edwards helps Brooklyn order and stretch out her writing with a beginning, middle, and end. She uses long pages and scissors as tools. ...
Extending Invitations in Workshop: Ways to Empower Student Choice
“All right, readers, it’s almost time to find your reading spot. Today you might try this work in your reader's notebook. Perhaps you’ll set up a page to study one...
Digital Reading Strategies
I’ve tiptoed around using digital texts in my classroom, yet I read information digitally all the time—blogs, websites, and tweets. I tend to read more books on my e-reader than...
Online Routines to Create Energetic Reading Communities
A weekly biography exploration, celebrated as Meet Someone New Monday, is filled with reading experiences that my fourth graders and I cherish. Meet Someone New Monday means sharing success stories...
Comparing Book and Television Adaptations in a Reading Conference
Christy Rush-Levine confers with Adriana over her response to Pretty Little Liars, considering differences between the television show and the book.
Troubleshooting Difficulties When Writing a Big Idea in Memoir
Looking at a piece of student writing and trying to decide what to teach can feel overwhelming. However, within a genre, predictable difficulties appear. When we teach our sixth-grade memoir...
Rotation of the Classroom Library
Twice a year I change out the clothes in my closet—once at the beginning of fall and the other at the beginning of spring. I rotate seasonal clothes and add...
Assessing Students Online: Small and Powerful Moves
Assessing students as we teach online is tricky, as the hours of kid watching are now unavailable. How do you know where to begin? How do you know which skills...
Honoring Student Identity Podcast
The focus of this week's Big Fresh is honoring student identity. Cathy Mere joins the podcast for a conversation about uplifting student voices and using mentor texts to help kids...
November 20, 2020 Honoring Identity
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole. —Roger Caras [Now you can listen to the Big Fresh podcast!] Over the Moon For nearly a year...
