The focus of this week's Big Fresh is fresh starts. Stephanie Affinito joins the podcast to talk about coaching visions and menus.
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Each week Choice Literacy shares the Big Fresh newsletter with a round-up of features around a key topic in literacy education. You can find the December 18, 2020 issue here.
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Reset: Christy Rush-Levine finds her students sometimes need to stop and be challenged to think in more positive ways about their reading abilities. She describes how she designs minilessons for impromptu resets in her middle school classroom.
Creating a Manifesto: Ruth Ayres explains why writing a manifesto may be the best way to learn what you truly believe about teaching, learning, and literacy.
One Little Word: A History: Ali Edwards encourages selecting One Little Word to lead you through the year. Here she explains the history and introduces her 2020 One Little Word.
Margaret Simon’s process or Annie Campbell’s big idea for using One Little Word in classrooms.
The focus of this week's podcast is classroom libraries. Melanie Meehan and Ruth Ayres join the conversation. Each week Choice Literacy shares the Big Fresh newsletter with a round-up of features around a key topic in literacy education. Click here for ALL links discussed. Timeline 00:00 Welcome 00:28 Lead Essay by Ruth Ayres 03:00 Free For All Content Highlights 08:54 Classic Classroom Content Highlights 15:30 Literacy Leader Content Highlights Free for All Join the Choice Literacy Book Club! Melanie Meehan selected the picture book Octopus Stew by Eric Velasquez as our November read. Grab a copy, and join the conversation using the hashtag #ChoiceLiteracyBookClub. Melanie Meehan and Ruth Ayres discuss this week's theme, classroom libraries, on the podcast. Join the Choice Chat. Share a gratitude by leaving a comment on any of our social media channels. We’re giving away a free course to one commenter on each platform. The winner chooses the course. Sean Musselman shares a less than perfect journey to a more inclusive classroom library on the Teacher|Books|Readers blog. Mandy Robek realizes her classroom library isn't working for her second graders, in part because many of the books are still too difficult for students early in the year. She explains her process of sorting and stowing books for later use. This article was first published in 2016. Mary Lee Hahn finds some of her fifth-grade readers are stuck in ruts by early winter. Her solution involves some radical changes to her classroom library over winter break. This article was first published in 2017. Brian Sepe guides us into making a gratitude practice a powerful and practical part of each day. Become a Choice Literacy member! Click here to find out ...
The focus of this week's Big Fresh is word learning. Get the Big Fresh delivered straight to your inbox (it's free)! Each week Choice Literacy shares the Big Fresh newsletter with a round-up of features around a key topic in literacy education. You can find the October 30, 2020 issue here. Lead Essay: "Shark Attack" by Ruth Ayres Free for All “Quick Vocabulary Practice and Assessment" by Gretchen Schroeder “Quick and Easy Word Study Groups in First Grade" by Bitsy Parks Classic Classroom Member Content "Making Something Together: Shared Writing Online" by Tammy Mulligan “It’s Not Wrong. It’s Almost Right" by Melanie Quinn In this week’s video, Melissa Atwood leads a first-grade guided reading group. Dana Murphy meets with a group of fifth graders to work on strategies for understanding unknown words. Literacy Leader Member Content “Vocabulary Development in Writing” by Tara Barnett and Kate Mills “Word Study Half Day Professional Development" by Julie Wright “One Word to Drop from Your Teacher Vocabulary” by Holly Hagman ...
The focus of this week's Big Fresh is Celebrating Writers. Bitsy Parks joins the podcast. Click here for ALL links discussed. Each week Choice Literacy shares the Big Fresh newsletter with a round-up of features around a key topic in literacy education. You can find the February 26, 2021 issue here. Timeline 00:00 Welcome00:30 Lead Essay by Ruth Ayres03:48 Classic Classroom Content06:17 Bitsy Parks Interview27:27 Free for All29:01 Leaders Lounge Content Free for All The Choice Literacy Book Club! Christy Rush-Levine selected an Own Voices middle grade fantasy novel for the February read. This is free for all! Follow along on the site of with #ChoiceLiteracyBookClub. Sharing Writing in a Class Celebration: Ruth Ayres shares her best tips for sharing writing in a class celebration. Writing Share Structures: Katrina Edwards moves her first-grade class out of a rut with writing shares by introducing several new options. Author to Author Website: Matt Glover talks with Lester Laminack about the importance of a relationship that allows writers to be vulnerable in the revision process. Become a Choice Literacy member! Click here to find out more about membership options. ...
