Free Gift: Digital Choice Board with Rubric and Instructions.

Incorporating student choice into assignments can increase engagement and show mastery of 21st-century skills.

A popular method for choice is a choice board. Choice boards give students parameters for demonstrating mastery of concepts but allow them choice in the final format of the assignment.

Check out a great Literacy Choice Board Here:

This assignment demonstrates mastery in the following CCSS ELA Standard:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.10

By the end of grade 11, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 11—CCR text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.By the end of grade 12, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, at the high end of the grades 11—CCR text complexity band independently and proficiently.

This link will take you to a Canva project that includes the slide above, a rubric, and step-by-step instructions for each project listed.

Tools used:

Canva Templates
Canva Brand Package
Canva MagicWrite: Creating the step-by-step instructions
ChatGPT to create the rubric table
Google Sheets to edit the rubric

How do you use choice boards? Let me know below!

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