Middle school choice boards

Put an end to the early finisher challenge with these fun and engaging (and free!) choice board activities for early finishers!

Hear ye! Hear ye! Teaching current events doesn’t have to be boring. Engage and challenge your students in local and world events by using choice boards, which are perfect for the classroom because they allow for creativity and differentiation.

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…

Students are more engaged and motivated when given choice. This post breaks down how you can use choice boards to offer choice and increase student mastery.

After receiving vocabulary words for the week, students will be given this choice board activity where they can choose any three activities to complete using their vocabulary words. I let my students choose any three activities as opposed to making them do three in a row.

Choice boards are perfect for learning in the classroom, online or at home! Choice boards differentiate learning through student choice of process, content or product! #differentiationtips #choiceboards #upperelementary

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…

Using choice boards just makes sense! Since each individual student is unique, a one-size-fits-all approach to assessment is not ideal.

Do you want to provide your students with more choices so they can take ownership of their learning? If so, you’ll love this free fiction choice board! This printable and digital reading response menu is a perfect addition to a class novel, independent reading time, or a small group reading activity. You can use it in your Google Classroom for distance learning too! Your 4th, 5th, 6th, and middle school students will have fun with this reading comprehension activity! Grab this freebie today!