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Choice Board Activities
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A choice board is a collection of tasks or activities presented in a visual format that invites students to take ownership of their learning.
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You can present children with choices in terms of literacy strategies to explore.
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The choices can be presented in word or picture form.
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You can choose to explore several items from the choice board together.
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You can choose different choice board items for each read-aloud!
Point out the author and illustrator. Read about them on the back flap. |
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Read the title. Make a prediction about what the book might be about. |
Do a picture walk. Pause and discuss what captures your interest. Explain why you found it interesting! |
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Research the author and illustrator online. Do they have a website or video to explore? |
Make a text-to-self connection (connection between the book and your own experiences). | Make a text-to-text connection (connection between the book and another book, or text- environmental print, recipe, magazine, comic book, etc). |
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Discuss a vocabulary word that you want to explore as you read. How might |
Ask “what do you notice?” when you come to an interesting illustration or picture. This is visual literacy! | Would you like to spend the day with this character? Explain why with a specific detail. |
Create an art project to go along with the story. |
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Create a game (with instructions and materials) to go along with book. |
Create an interactive vocabulary activity (such as a vocabulary cartoon) |
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Write a letter to a character in the book. |
Write a poem inspired by a character in the book. | Create a vocabulary cartoon. Design a statement or question that uses the vocabulary word in real life and illustrates the situation. |
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Consider researching a related |
Write a journal entry from a character's perspective in the book. Include a picture to go along with your journal entry. |
Act out a key scene from the book! Be creative and have fun. Include scenery by drawing it on construction paper as a background. |