ABSTRACT
Integrating menus into instruction for enrichment and as supplementary activities are the most common uses for menus in the classroom. In this case, the students usually do not have a lot of background knowledge and the intellectually appropriate information about the topic may not be readily available to all students. There are many ways to use menus in the classroom. One way that is often overlooked is using menus to access or build background knowledge before a unit begins. One option for using menus and choice in the classroom is to replace certain whole-class curricular activities the teacher uses to teach specific aspects of a novel. The idea of choice fits hand-in-hand with the philosophy of flipped instruction or the flipped classroom model. Using a menu of options to offer and manage the activities and processing experiences will allow all of the different ability levels within the classroom to feel successful.
