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 a round-up of features around a key topic in literacy education. Click here for ALL links discussed.
Melanie Meehan works with fifth graders to help them create their own set of indicators of success in a writing unit. (This article was first published in 2016.)
Join the Choice Literacy Book Club and pick up your copy of The Proudest Blue by Ibtihaj Muhammad, S.K. Ali, and Hatem Aly.
Miriam Ortiz, Tracey Flores, and Emily Machado seek to make visible the brilliant teaching of educators working alongside multilingual learners and the intentional steps they take to design curriculum and create classroom spaces that cultivate the genius of each individual learner.
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The focus of this week's Big Fresh is recognizing bias. Gretchen Schroeder joins the podcast. Get the Big Fresh delivered straight to your inbox (it's free)! 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 January 29, 2021 issue here. Timeline 00:00 Welcome 00:47 Lead Essay 04:49 Classic Classroom Content 0:46 Gretchen Schroeder Interview 32:43 Free for All 34:13 Leaders Lounge Content Free for All Culturally Responsive Texts: Katrina Edwards is horrified when a student response reveals cultural gaps in her first-grade classroom library. She researches possibilities for expanding the diversity of texts, and shares an annotated bibliography linking different cultures and curricular possibilities. This feature was first published in 2016, yet the ideas and inspiration are still relevant today. Whose Point of View Matters? Considering Multiple Perspectives: When it comes to including and understanding others, it may be hardest to empathize with those who disrupt or bully others. Tammy Mulligan shares her four favorite mentor texts for opening discussions to understand the humanity within all of us. The article was first published in 2019. Listen to 1619, a podcast from the New York Times, an audio series on how slavery has transformed America, connecting past and present through the oldest form of storytelling. ...
The focus of this week's Big Fresh is empowering readers. This week, we share The Choice Literacy Book Club discussion about #OwnVoices middle grade fantasy novel The Barren Grounds. Get the Big Fresh delivered straight to your inbox (it's free)! 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 March 5, 2021 issue here. Timeline 00:00 Welcome 00:28 Lead Essay by Matt Renwick 04:13 Classic Classroom Content 05:42 Leaders Lounge Content 06:50 Free for All 8:44 The Choice Literacy Book Club Discussion Free for All Join the Choice Literacy Book Club! Bitsy Parks selected a thought-provoking picture book for our March read. Find out more at the site. Join the conversation using the hashtag #ChoiceLiteracyBookClub. Read Them Again...And Again...And Again: Jennifer Ryan encourages us to read picture books again and again. In this post on Teachers Books Readers, Jennifer outlines the importance of rereading beautiful picture books. Don’t miss the links to videos to show how students’ responses become more sophisticated with rereading. Readers Want to Respond: Matt Renwick is surprised when his son completes a reading quiz that isn’t required, and finally realizes it’s all about reading response. This article was first published in 2019. Become a Choice ...
The focus of this week's podcast is making workshop work. Cathy Mere and Ruth Ayres join the conversation. 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 September 10, 2021 issue here. Timeline 00:00 Welcome 00:28 Lead Essay by Gretchen Schroeder 03:24 Free for All Conversation 19:16 Classic Classroom Conversation 30:19 Literacy Leader Content Conversation Free for All Join the Choice Literacy Book Club! Heather Fisher selected So You Want to Be an Owl by Jane Porter and Maddie Frost as our September read. Grab a copy, and join the conversation using the hashtag #ChoiceLiteracyBookClub. Suzy Kaback asks her students to write letters of recommendations for themselves, and finds the activity ripples across the school mentoring community. This exercise is a terrific catalyst for creating personal improvement plans. This article was first published in 2012. Tara Barnett and Kate Mills give guidance and support for varying the structures and routines in literacy workshops. This article was first published in 2020. Become a Choice Literacy member! Click here to find out more about membership options. ...
