Exploring Your Issue

Each issue of Choices comes with a wealth of resources, including leveled articles, videos, printable activities and more. 

The Teacher’s Guide, full of lesson plans and other teaching tips, comes with every issue to help kickstart your plans. Lesson plans are thoughtfully crafted with conversation starters, differentiation ideas, and more. To learn more about our lesson plans, click here.

Cover of the Scholastic Choices Teacher's Guide, September 2025, with interior pages fanned out behind it

Skill building activities and quizzes come with every major article. You’ll find engaging activities meant to start discussion, reinforce vocabulay, and gauge comprehension. They’re available as a printable PDF and in a digital format your students can type into. Learn more about the digital activities here.

Four worksheets about The Mental Health Workout from Choices by Scholastic

Presentation View offers a view of the magazine that looks exactly like the print version. This view is perfect for projecting on your screen in the classroom, while students follow along with their issues.

A woman runs on a path beneath a rainbow and stormy sky, beside the title The Mental Health Workout

Videos are curated for major articles to provide learning extensions and an engaging opportunity for rich disussion. You can also find them in the Teaching Resources section for each article, and in the Video archive page. Learn more about these resources and how to share them with your students here.

Collage of six educational video thumbnails on mental health, life skills, and social-emotional learning topics