A choice board is a graphic organizer that allows students to choose different ways to learn about a particular concept. Choice boards are set up in a grid, generally with 9 squares. You can include more or fewer activities, but I’ve found 9 to be a good number. In addition, you can require that students […]

Non-Fiction Reading Response Choice Boards plus more printables for analyzing non-fiction

Two different choice boards to provide differentiated options for your students to show their learning and thinking. One choice board has writing response prompts to respond to novels and the other has vocabulary responses. Enjoy this freebie! Follow me to be notified of new freebies, products, a...

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Kids, well, all people really, LOVE choice! That's why I created these reading choice boards.

So, a while back I posted a sample of "Read-O" and "Write-O" that I created for my kiddos over winter break...They looked something like t...

Two different choice boards to provide differentiated options for your students to show their learning and thinking. One choice board has writing response prompts to respond to novels and the other has vocabulary responses. Enjoy this freebie! Follow me to be notified of new freebies, products, a...

Looking for an effective and easy to implement way to have your students apply grade level reading skills to any text they are reading (including independent reading books)? This set of reading choice boards will not only engage your students in choice, but will also allow them to practice the 5th g...

Are you familiar with Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences? It is an amazing way of looking at how your students learn best. You can visit his website here: http://howardgardner.com/. There are several online assessments that your students can take to determine what type of learner they are...

Last summer I attended a GT training and was introduced to choice boards! I LOVE THIS IDEA!!! I think that students are more engaged and even challenge themselves more when they are given choices. The great thing is....they aren't just for GT students. Choice boards work similar to tic-tac-toe; the student completes 3 activities in a row {up, down, diagonal} They can be adapted for ALL students and actually lend themselves well to differentiated instruction. On Tuesday, I will be attending…

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new year choice board: Using this week for quick writes and goal setting.

My 3rd grade ELA team has been doing amazing things lately! I've decided in order to post blogs about the great things we are doing--I must make my blogs short but meaningful! :) I am hoping that by doing this, I can blog more often! So here it goes... We are revamping the way we are doing our interventions for our kids (a blog for a different time.) Anyway, we needed some enrichment activities, without the dreaded question every week of..."what do we do now?" So we decided to create a…

I'm going to post some pics that I've meant to post before but haven't been able to! They are the anchor charts we used this past week and last. Any questions, ask :) The 5 Ws of Persuasive Writing, idea suggested from Melissa Hughes January Choice Board, containing various writing forms, used during our independent writing time. My first attempt at success criteria with students, didn't go too bad and it's definitely helping us understand what we need to include! This was taken from our…

choice board for enrichment and early finishers...color coded by subject...change choices often by valarie on Indulgy.com