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Over the past year, I have received several questions about how I score the choice boards I use in my classroom. I decided to go ahead and compile my favorite choice board scoring resources and offer them for free. You can use these with choice boards that I create or with any choice boards you have. I have included a variety of different printables that you can choose from.

When the students have completed the work, I like for them to self assess themselves before turning it into me. I have included two different self assessment printables for your students to use: a rubric and a questionnaire. Use one or the other or use both.

The rubric requires the students to “score” themselves on specific categories. They highlight, color, or circle the descriptor that matches their work.

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September 4, 2015 at 12:00 pm

I love that you have students evaluate themselves first!

September 4, 2015 at 7:21 pm

I love this. Do you have any for lower grades (1st and 2nd – in particular, reading) or would it be okay to create some along the same format?

September 9, 2015 at 9:08 pm

Hi Sydney! My friend Cyndie at Chalk One Up for the Teacher has 1st and 2nd grade versions. You can find them at this link: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Chalk-One-Up-For-The-Teacher/Category/Choice-Boards

July 16, 2016 at 12:16 pm

Hello Jennifer, I was wondering how long you give your students to complete the board and when you give them new ones. I read your original blog post, but didn’t see anything about due dates. This looks like a great resource and I’m so excited to use!! Thanks!!

November 5, 2016 at 8:49 pm

I think your choice boards are great but I’m in Texas and we don’t use Common Core. Do you know of anyone in Texas who has something similar for the TEKS? Thanks. Jana

April 7, 2017 at 1:50 pm

Do you happen to have these for sixth grade?

April 11, 2017 at 7:22 pm

Hi Deb, I don’t have 6th grade resources. Thanks for asking though!

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Choice Boards for Elementary Learners

Empowering students to own their learning, allowing for student choice and voice, individualizing learning activities — all of these are important goals of specific learning activities. And they can all be accomplished through the use choice boards, especially in the elementary classroom.

What Is a Choice Board?

Because of the value that choice boards provide to student learning, TCEA has written about them previously in our blog. Here are some that offer what a choice board is and why we should be using them:

• It’s Time to Let the Kids Choose
• Creating a Choice Board for Your Classroom
• Create Interactive Learning with a Choice Board
• How to Create a Choice Board
• Wakelet Choice Boards
• Discovering Autumn-Themed Choice Boards

Elementary Choice Boards

Let’s take a look at some already-created, easy-to-use choice boards that are perfect for the elementary classroom.

• Tic-Tac-Toe Choice board – A 3×3 grid with activities for math, reading, and coding, all done in Google Slides
• All About Dinosaurs – Done in Seesaw
• Choice Boards from Blue Valley Schools – This group of teachers has the most amazing collection of choice boards for grades kindergarten through grade five. Select your grade level and then you’ll see two week’s worth of boards, one for each day. They are available for general education, special education, and for ESL students (Spanish, Portuguese, and Chinese). Each board includes reading, writing, math, science and social studies, well being and SEL, and specials. Everything you need is here!
• Battlefield Primary School has posted what they call “digital learning day” choice boards. These are designed to be used for those students in grades PreK-2 who are learning at home. They also offer boards for speech, language, fine and gross motor skills, and social skills.
• Variety of Boards – Here are choice boards for eight weeks for grades K-5. Below each board are the accompanying worksheets and handouts.
• Choice Boards in the Library – Available for grades K-5 in Google Docs (so that you can change as needed)
• Templates from Kasey Bell – The Google Guru Kasey Bell offers several different templates for elementary students, including a novel study. And she has another template available here .
• Coding for Grades PreK-3 – “Learn and create code through stories, music, games, videos, and more.” The site also offers a 3-6 coding choice board .

Final Thoughts About Choice Boards

While it is easy to spend a lot of time of making the choice boards “cute,” that is not completely necessary. Focus in on ensuring that meaningful, learning-focused activities are included and that student choice is truly there. (In other words, don’t make all of the activities basically the same so that choice is negated.) Try to include different ways for student brains to think by including choices that involve creativity, writing, drawing, the fine arts, and more. And finally, once in a while, change the choice board up by having them pick a different number of activities to complete, having them pick activities that match a certain pattern, or activities that all tie together around a them.

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Lori Gracey currently serves as the executive director of the Texas Computer Education Association (TCEA) and is responsible for training technology directors, administrators, curriculum supervisors, librarians, and teachers across the country. Since 2009, she has led TCEA in membership and revenue growth, helped to pay off their building and purchase a new, larger building, and implemented new conferences, partnerships with other associations, and professional development opportunities for members and non-members. She serves more than 75,000 members and oversees a staff of 20. Lori has served on the board of the Texas Society of Association Executives and SXSWedu, and she has served as the Regional Program Chair for the ISTE 2017 and 2021 Convention in San Antonio. Lori has 28 years of experience in education, with 22 years as a curriculum and technology director.

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Looking for an alternative to traditional homework that is developmentally appropriate for your kindergarten classroom? These kindergarten homework monthly menus are the perfect option to create monthly homework packets with great kid-friendly choices for your kindergarten classroom! They are similar to homework calendars but with more freedom for teachers and families. There are 20 fun activities to choose from each month. These choices include developmentally appropriate academic skills, fine motor skills, life skills and play!

►►►Save 30% by purchasing this BUNDLE of Monthly Kindergarten Homework Choice Boards! The bundle includes a total of 9 months (September – May) of homework choice options.

Worksheets are included for some activities, but not required to be used. In addition to traditional academic skills, fun activities like playing a board game and going on a nature walk and life skills like memorizing phone numbers are included. This packet is extremely low prep and designed to actively engage families in the learning process and reinforce kindergarten skills in a fun way.

What's included in each month?

• Instructions for how to use
• Homework Choice Board (with or without month label) with 20 choices
• Instructions & materials list for parents
• 8-12 corresponding worksheets
• Blank, editable Homework Choice Board for each month (Must have PowerPoint to edit. The worksheets are NOT editable.)

►►You will need PowerPoint to use the editable templates.

Months Included:

• Kindergarten Monthly Homework September
• Kindergarten Monthly Homework October
• Kindergarten Monthly Homework November
• Kindergarten Monthly Homework December
• Kindergarten Monthly Homework January
• Kindergarten Monthly Homework February
• Kindergarten Monthly Homework March
• Kindergarten Monthly Homework April
• Kindergarten Monthly Homework May
• Kindergarten Monthly Homework Summer/June

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Back to School Prep

Summer is about relaxing and letting go of the stress from the previous year. However, many teachers are also thinking about the upcoming school year. Honestly, getting ahead often means a smoother start to the beginning. This typically involves preparing everything for Open House, developing new lessons filled with engagement, and planning assessments for baseline data. There is just so much to handle with back-to-school prep. Luckily, the two checklist items below will help teachers enjoy summer while preparing for a fantastic year. 

Back to School Night/Open House 

Truly, this is one of the most important events of the year. It allows parents to meet the person who will spend most of the day with their loved ones. Most importantly, it allows students to see their new classroom and put their minds at ease about the upcoming year. Therefore, teachers often feel a ton of pressure to create the perfect experience. 

Luckily, the First Week of First Grade will help ensure that the start of the year progresses flawlessly! This includes needed documents for parents, such as a welcome letter, transportation form, and parent survey. Then, there are printables for the first four days of school. All the included activities focus on basic skills to avoid overwhelming students. This also creates the perfect opportunity to get to know the new class family. There are even teacher resources, such as attention grabbers and morning songs! This back-to-school prep will help ensure students, parents, and teachers have an enjoyable start to a fantastic year. 

Homework Plans

Honestly, making decisions over homework is stressful. For instance, teachers often wonder how much homework should be assigned. Additionally, there is always concern about how teachers can support students who do not have adults to help at home. Thankfully, the Editable Homework Choice Boards create a way to give homework in a fun, exciting way. By using choice boards, students have the opportunity to pick what they are working on. This means they may choose something they can do independently if their parents are busy. Then, they can complete the items they need help with when their parents are free. 

There are monthly and weekly menus to fit each classroom! Each weekly homework menu has 9 reading, math, and writing tasks. Then, students select the 4 tasks they want to complete each week. Each monthly menu has 5 reading tasks, 5 math tasks, 5 writing tasks, and 5 science or social studies tasks. Then, students select at least 15 squares to complete throughout the month. Best of all, students are reviewing essential first-grade skills while enjoying the ability to pick! 

Honestly, back-to-school prep can be exhausting and overwhelming. There is so much to handle to ensure students have an incredible year. To help reduce anxiety, create a helpful checklist. Working on one item at a time will make a list less daunting. Thankfully, the First Week of First Grade resource and Editable Homework Choice Boards will help check items off the list! 

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Using Choice Boards to Boost Student Engagement

Giving students options for how they demonstrate their learning is a good way to ignite their curiosity.

How do you make learning effective, engaging, and student driven when students aren’t physically in the classroom? That’s been the question on our minds for quite some time now. One team of education leaders in North Carolina found a solution that drastically changed instruction throughout the state, and it’s something you might already be familiar with.

As teachers and students transitioned to fully remote instruction, the English language arts (ELA) team created choice boards that teachers could copy and adjust to meet the needs of their students. The boards—which could be assigned virtually or printed out in packets—were organized by grade band and filled with standards-aligned activities as well as scaffolds that enabled children to be able to complete the work alone. Check out the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction’s ELA choice boards here .

Choice boards improved remote learning in our virtual classrooms, increasing student engagement and ownership, and even making our students more eager to dig into their assessments and homework.

Here are some tips to get started with implementing choice boards—whether students are in person, learning remotely, or a mixture of both—as well as some lessons learned along the way.

Assessments

Choice boards add a new dimension to your classroom, offering an alternative to standard assessments and empowering students to choose how they show their mastery of a topic. Additionally, they provide educators with a variety of ways to check for student understanding. If you’ve ever had your eyes glaze over as you regarded the night’s looming stack of 120 freshmen essays to grade, this could be the refreshing twist you’re looking for.

Imagine that you’re working with your middle school English class on analyzing complex characters in The House on Mango Street . You can unpack the standard with your students and create a rubric with them (or we love this idea of success criteria), then brainstorm ideas for activities.

Try incorporating your students into the process and get their input on how they’d like to demonstrate what they’ve learned. For example, students might suggest developing a movie trailer to illustrate their mastery of the standard, drafting a series of diary entries from the main character, or creating a series of podcast episodes. Allowing for student involvement in the creation of the choice boards increases their ownership and follow-through.

A few pointers:

• Keep in mind, some learners do prefer traditional assessments, so leave those as an option in the choice board.
• You don’t have to start from scratch; there are free choice board templates available online.

Choice boards can be used in place of a homework packet—giving students the autonomy to choose how they practice skills they learned during the school day.

But choice boards can also serve as a way to engage with parents and caregivers. A family homework choice board can encourage education-centered family time at home, while simultaneously informing caregivers about topics and skills their child is learning at school.

What might this look like? Let’s say you are teaching a third-grade class and a parent has asked you for the homework. Share the optional homework choice board—activities might include finding three examples of this week’s syllable type in books from their book bin, reading high-frequency words to a family member, or practicing the high-frequency words on an online app.

• Before sending home a homework choice board, allot time to guide your students through the process—practicing it in the classroom first. Think of it as a mini-lesson.
• Evaluate limitations or access issues that may arise for some students when working at home. Things to consider include access to technology, access to materials, and time asked of the parents/caregivers in assisting.

Remote Learning

Remote learning days are far from a thing of the past. Whether these days are scheduled ahead of time in the school’s calendar or utilized as an alternative to closing the building for severe weather or recurring outbreaks of Covid, schools can be proactively prepared by creating district or schoolwide choice boards that teachers can easily access.

Ideally, these can be tweaked by teachers themselves easily so that students can complete them over and over again. Educators can switch out the text and activities at their discretion to update them.

• Move from fluff to rigor by being intentional with learning outcomes and alignment to state standards. (Find tips at Aligning Curricular Decisions with Student Voice ). Make sure that you aren’t just creating busywork but are truly creating assignments that are standards aligned.
• Get a team involved to make the lift lighter. The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction had teams of educators work together to create a universal set of choice boards that could be accessed by teachers statewide—many hands make short work.
• We’ve used choice boards not only with K–12 students but with our teachers in training as well. Offering people choice in assignments does equate to a lot more emails to answer from our graduate students. But that’s something we were more than happy to take on.

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Choice Boards: Benefits, Design Tips & Differentiation

Student agency, or a students’ ability to make key decisions about their learning experience, is an essential aspect of blended learning. Student agency requires that we design our lessons to offer students meaningful choices. These choices can help us universally design learning experiences that strive to remove barriers and invite students to decide how to engage with information, make meaning, and demonstrate their learning.

Choice boards fall within the umbrella of blended learning when we combine active, engaged learning online with active, engaged learning offline. Below is an overview of the benefits of using choice boards and the various types of boards you can design to meet a range of different objectives.

The Benefits of Choice Boards

• Choice is a powerful motivator.
• Learner variability means that not all students enjoy the same task.  
• Students have more control over the pace at which they navigate the tasks.
• Teachers are freed from orchestrating a lesson and able to conference with learners about their progress, provide feedback on work in progress, or conduct side-by-side assessments.

Designing Choice Boards

You can design choice boards for a variety of purposes or learning objectives. It’s essential to identify the purpose of a board to ensure your design aligns with that objective.

• Standards-aligned boards
• Strategy-specific boards
• Thematic boards
• Review and practice boards
• Project or performance task boards

Standards-aligned Choice Boards

Standards-aligned choice boards provide students with multiple ways to engage with target standards. Each column focuses on a specific standard or skill. Then the various learning activities within each column allow students to engage with that standard or skill in a way that is appealing to them. Below is a deconstructed example that highlights the considerations you will want to make when designing your standards-aligned choice board.

Strategy-specific Choice Boards

Strategy-specific boards present learners with a variety of strategies to select from and can be used repeatedly. For example, a board can focus on presenting reading strategies as pictured below so that students can select a focus strategy each time they read a text. Similarly, you can create a vocabulary review board with activities students can choose from to practice and play with their new subject-specific or academic vocabulary.

Thematic Choice Boards

Thematic choice boards focus on a particular theme or topic. Elementary teachers may use their board to encourage a deep dive into a holiday, season, or weather pattern. Thematic choice boards can prioritize a topic we care about or value that does not appear in our standards. For example, teachers may want to create a well-being board to engage students in mindfulness activities or create a brain break board to provide “fast finishers” with activities to work on while other students finish a task.

Review and Practice Choice Boards

A review and practice board is an alternative to a traditional study guide. As students prepare for an assessment, create a board with activities that target key vocabulary, concepts, and skills. Then encourage students to select an item from each column to help them prepare for the assessment. This positions the learner to make key decisions about which activities would be most valuable as they work with vocabulary, concepts, and skills.

Project or Performance Task Choice Boards

Not all students express or communicate their learning effectively in the same way. Providing students with a project or performance task choice board allows them to select the project or task they want to work on to demonstrate their learning. This choice can translate into higher rates of completion and more robust finished products.

Subtly Differentiating a Choice Board

You can create three versions of the same choice board (advanced, regular, scaffolded) to ensure that the level of rigor and academic complexity is appropriate to different groups of learners in your class. If you create your choice boards using a digital document or slide deck, you can “make a copy” of your regular choice board and adjust them to challenge strong students or add additional supports and scaffolds for students who need them.

Alternatively, you could create a single choice board and color-code the squares to denote more challenging activities and tasks. For example, the choice board template below has blue and green squares. The green “stretch” squares are more challenging for students who are capable of academically rigorous work. These squares can be optional, or you can ask students who you think are ready for a stretch square to complete at least one activity or task from a green square.

What will you do with your time while students work on a choice board?

Prioritizing student agency and removing barriers are significant benefits of a choice board. Still, the best aspect of using choice boards from a teacher’s perspective is the time and space they create for us in the classroom. As students self-pace through the items on a choice board, you are freed to spend your time working directly with individuals or small groups of learners.

• Conferencing about student progress
• Pulling students for real-time feedback sessions
• Conducting side-by-side assessments

The goal of this time from a teacher’s perspective should be to connect with learners and shift more time-consuming teacher tasks, like feedback and grading, into the classroom. When these tasks are done in the classroom with learners, they become an opportunity to engage learners in conversations about their progress and work.

Choice boards are versatile and can effectively shift students to the center of the learning experience by inviting them to decide how to spend their time and energy. This increased student agency also frees you to invest your time and energy in tasks that free you from the front of the room and allow you to work alongside students.

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This looks like a great tool to use!

I will be interested to see how I can use the suggestions from this newsletter within my classroom

This seems awesome!

What great options to engage students in and out of the classroom! There is so much dignity and power in choice….

I appreciate the examples.

You’re welcome! I’m glad they were helpful.

This looks great and I can modify for my classroom.

This is a fantastic tool to engage learners of different kinds and achieve maximum participation and hopefully soaring productivity.

I love choice boards – with choices, student engagement improves.

I love the idea of choice boards because its something that everyone can do and students have the ability to be creative by choosing the task they feel more comfortable completing.

Absolutely! I’m planning to use the review choice board to prepare for final exams.

It is a great tool to improve student engagement.

The samples shared get me in the reflection mode.

Should teachers do a choice for every unit?

Hi Garrett,

Choice boards are versatile, so you can design a variety of choice boards for different purposes (review and practice, assessment, skill development, standard-aligned). Because you can create so many different types of boards, you can use them as much as you would like. They are a wonderful way to remove barriers and allow students agency.

Take care. Catlin

Wonderful way of explaining the question Catlin! Being able to create a practice assessment choice board would be great for me to introduce to my kindergarteners and gather feedback on areas of concern. Thanks for sharing….

You’re welcome, Jerrick!

Great question Garrett!

Choice boards are great! They help foster student autonomy and motivation by having the flexibility to choose!

I love the choice boards. Especially important for teenagers! I really like the idea of aligning it to standards for kids to see so they can know where they are and even make decisions based on what they may need or not need.

I love the choice boards as well. It is important that we give the learners some ownership over their education.

Choice is power! I typically get a high level of participation when I utilize choice boards. Students tend to own the task and excel because they have the power to demonstrate their personal strengths. Some of my most expressive art pieces have come from students who struggle with writing. They get a thrill when I display their work on the classroom and hallway walls.

Absolutely! Choice feeds our human desire for autonomy and agency. It can be incredibly motivating. I love that you give your students meaningful choices so they can leverage their strengths to demonstrate their learning.

Catlin, thanks for sharing so many versions of choice boards. May we use this board in our book EMPOWERING LEARNERS: Teaching Different Genres and Texts to Diverse Student Bodies due out this Fall and published by Rowman and Littlefield. https://docs.google.com/document/d/14HgizzNSRH-NJd4vc4K6cVAknOKNVkIe1P5UxOziJ2g/edit

It is our book designed for graduate teaching assistants and community college teachers working with adults, but as teachers have come with little or not pre-service training or coursework in pedagogy.

I cannot access the link you shared. Which board were you hoping to feature?

Thank you for sharing this information! I just made a choice board for a Spanish novel. Let’s see how it goes with the students.

Wonderful! I hope your students enjoy it!

I am an art teacher and I have always felt when a classroom teacher made a choice board for that days lesson, it was because they wanted a day to catch up on grading, maybe they did not feel well and did not want to teach or it was for a substitute. After reading this blog I realize how wrong I was. I also see how I could utilize choice boards in the art room. I could use them to compare and contrast styles of art, or use them to teach students about different artist. I could use them to introduce key art vocabulary or I could use them to give my students a brain break. I went away with many new ideas for choice boards because I was not familiar with them as a learning tool. Now I intend to use them in my art room in different grade levels. That is the other great thing about choice boards you can use them with any grade level. With the extra time i will have I plane to pull students so I can talk to them about their progress or if they need any help. I want to really do assessments on them and their work and I would like to be able to spend some time talking to them about what they would like to learn next. Thank you Dr. Catlin Tucker .

You are so welcome, Theresa! I love that you are reimagining what a choice board could free you to do with students! I always encourage teachers to lean on the time and space created using strategies that blend online and offline learning. It frees teachers to conference with learners, provide feedback as they work, and pull assessments into the classroom! All of these help us build relationships with learners!

I found this information to be very useful and informative. I have been doing choice boards with my students every year to help with them being independent throughout our work cycles or during my small group instructional times. This allows the students to work alone, with a partner, or with their small group of friends. It also gives them the stability to be independent when I am absent. My choice boards switch up regularly and is tied into my lessons or assessment reviewing. I have been able to use a picture choice board for pre-kinder and kindergartners and a picture and word choice boards for my readers. I guess it all depends what your target for the choice boards is gearing towards.

Hey Teresa. I’m so glad you mentioned this. I also use to think that choice boards were more-so for busy work or to steer the students into another direction until I started creating some for my use with students. I first begin making them in a seminar during the time I was working on my Master’s but I had tried them when I did my Bachelor’s but they didn’t make since to me back then. Now, I love them and have found ways to make them work with teaching letter/sound recognition, colors, sight words, etc. I like the idea of you being able to use them for comparing and contrasting styles of art. The key art ideas for the vocabulary sounds like a great choice board to implement and try out. Good luck! Thanks for sharing!

I feel different formats to present material will keep students involved in the class.

Definitely! We increase accessibility when we give students meaningful choices when it comes to engaging with information.

Yes Sarah! There are so many ways choice boards can be used. You just have to find out how you want to keep the students engaged and what you are trying to accomplish while using the choice boards.

I really loved all the brain break choice boards. This would be great for me to try and implement it during the first nine weeks of school while students are assessing what they know or need to know. Thanks for sharing!

You’re welcome, Jerrick! I’m glad it’s something you can try with your young students.

A great resource to use and pass on to other teachers.

Thank you, Peliar!

I love the choice boards.

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Teachers Ask Putin to Make Homework Voluntary for Older Students

A group of teachers has asked the Kremlin to free up time for older schoolchildren to set aside homework and receive an education from Moscow's museums and theaters.

President Vladimir Putin and acting Mayor Sergei Sobyanin met with the teachers on Wednesday and agreed to seriously consider their suggestions to make homework voluntary, Interfax reported.

Schoolchildren aged 15 to 16 study six days a week in public schools. Their 37 hours of classwork are supplemented by 20 hours of assigned homework.

By expecting schoolchildren to do so much homework, "we are depriving them of the possibility to take advantage of what Moscow has to offer," said Vita Kirichenko, winner of the 2012 teacher of the year competition.

Learning should be a pleasure for children, considering the educational ambience given to the city by its museums and theaters, educators said during the meeting.

"We suggest letting students choose for themselves the form of self-education that will be most effective in the latter stages of their school life," Kirichenko said.

Sobyanin appeared to embrace the teachers' appeal. "The paradox is that the better the teacher, the less homework they dish out because better teachers have time during lessons to cement schoolchildrens' knowledge," he said. "Weaker teachers have to assign more homework to achieve the same results."

Putin said that although it was a thorny issue, he agreed that overloading children causes them to lose attention and become tired.

"It is extremely important that schoolchildren have free time. Of course, we would like that time to be used to maximum effect, sensibly," Putin said.

The president said that Sobyanin would draft a proposal and send it to the relevant departments to "give them some homework to do."

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Homework Bingo Choice Boards: Weekly Homework Logs Monthly Theme Templates

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Description.

Homework Choice Boards are designed to make nightly assignments into a game that allows students to choose from a variety of activities to complete their homework. The editable weekly choice boards can be printed out or shared via Google Classroom in advance, and then students can play a game of "Homework Bingo" with their parents.

Learners will have fun completing their homework, and parents feel that they have some control over the homework process. Plus, there's always the option to do more for those parents who send emails requesting extra work!

This resource was designed to solve those major homework challenges many of us face:

• Students not completing their homework
• Parents complaining that we give too much homework
• Those emails and phone calls requesting extra assignments

This is a problem that has been plaguing teachers for years. With many districts mandating that students receive nightly homework assignments, you've likely been searching for a way to keep parents and students happy without the added homework stress.

Your download includes:

✔ 4+ monthly editable choice boards in 2 formats for September - May

• Half-page size

✔ Easy-to-follow directions for implementing the Homework Bingo system

How to get started with Homework Choice Boards from Differentiated Teaching...

• Teachers can edit the weekly choice board to align with campus requirements or material being taught
• Introduce the week's choice board and discuss options before assigning.
• Students glue the board into a journal or keep it in their homework folder & work to complete 10 squares across the week
• Return the board on Friday signed with 10 complete squares and you're done!
• Add fun incentives for students who complete an entire row, column, or diagonal.

Why Homework Bingo Works...

▸Students love to have a voice & choice in their homework assignments.

▸It offers flexibility for busy families.

▸The choices are meaningful and support classroom learning.

▸Game-based learning is inherently enticing to learners.

▸Rewards can be inexpensive & helpful - like the opportunity to be the classroom line leader

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Here's what teachers say about these homework choice boards: 

♥  "AMAZING RESOURCE! My students LOVE getting bingo and having the choice of what to do first. They beg for more. Thank you!" - Taylor (5th Grade Teacher)

♥ "My students really liked these bingo cards. It kept things interesting this year. The students would come in with them on Fridays and compare with other students who did what this week...creative and engaging." - Joy (3rd Grade Teacher)

♥ "It is now March and I have used these as my weekly homework since September. They are very engaging and I love the editable feature, as I have been able to add specifics of what we are doing during that time. Thank you for making such an easy tool. Homework is not a dreadful thing anymore." - Jessica (4th Grade Teacher)

♥ "I loved this product because it is not traditional homework. I loved that it gives the students options. I love that it is editable so I can change to my specific classroom needs. My students along with their families have express to me that they love it because it has lots of options." -Yoli (2nd Grade ESOL Special Education Teacher)

♥ "ABSOLUTELY LOVE. These have been a life-saving alternative to traditional homework in my classroom this year. The students receive options for relevant, quick skill practice at home rather than struggling with a worksheet that they might not complete at all or their parents help them with... I appreciate the special holiday/seasonal squares and conveniently included free programs like Xtra Math and Spelling City. Definitely recommend!" - Miss K.

♥ "I have scored big points with my students and their parents using this resource! It is a fun and engaging way to get my students to do their homework. The best part is that this resource is completely customizable. Thank you for this, it is amazing!"

Ready to ditch the homework stress in your classroom?

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