See What a Difference Choices

Can Make in Your Classroom

Choices empowers your students to become the strongest version of themselves outside and inside the classroom by meeting standards at both the state and national levels.

Aligns to the 5 CASEL Competencies

• Address the unique needs of today’s teens with timely, authentic texts that you can only get with Choices.
  

Aligns to Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for English Language Arts

• Authentic texts and specially designed lesson plans and activities support anchor standards in Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening, and Language.

Aligns to National Health Education Standards (NHES)

• Choices articles, classroom lessons, and activities will help you promote your students' personal, family, and community health.
• 10 Ways Choices Meets Your SEL Goals
  

Aligns to Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) Standards in Health for Grades 6–8

• Choices magazine and the accompanying Teacher's Guide will help your students develop key skills related to health behaviors, influencing factors, personal/interpersonal relationships, and bullying prevention.
• See how Choices 2023–2024 articles help support the TEKS health standards.

Choices’s dual format pairs high quality print magazines with powerful digital resources.  Every online feature helps you customize instruction and reach your students no matter where they are.

We've done the prep work for you!  Every issue comes with a comprehensive, easy-to-use Teacher's Guides and Support, including:

• Step-by-step lesson plans that give you instructions for before, during, and after reading
• Lexile® score that lets you evaluate each article for classroom or individual use
• Close-reading and critical-thinking questions to build and deepen comprehension
• Questions at your fingertips to help students explore text features
• Common Core and NHES standards correlations
• Answer keys

• Every article in the magazine is a complete skill-building kit.
• Articles build knowledge and connect to health and English language arts curriculums.
• Printable online skills sheets provide the essential practice your students need to reinforce key reading, writing, and health-enhancing strategies.
• Each article includes vocabulary words and practice resources. By the end of the year, your students will be armed with essential health words every reader needs to know.