differentiating reading and writing instruction
Every student brings his or her strengths, needs, and interests to the classroom. Because students’ achievement levels and preferred ways of learning vary, teachers modify instruction in three ways: They modify the content that students need to learn, the instructional process used to teach students, and the products students create to demonstrate their learning.
How Effective Teachers Differentiate Literacy Instruction
How Effective Teachers Differentiate Literacy Instruction
- Teachers differentiate instruction to meet the needs of all students, including struggling students.
- Teachers understand that struggling readers have difficulties in decoding, fluency, vocabulary, and/or comprehension.
- Teachers understand that struggling writers lack knowledge about the qualities of good writing and the process that writers use.
- Teachers use a balanced approach to teach struggling students that incorporates explicit instruction, materials at students’ reading levels, and more time for reading and writing.
- Teachers understand that interventions are additional instructional programs to remedy students’ reading and writing difficulties.
differentiation in a reader's workshop
Ideas to meet and challenge you students' needs during reader's workshop.
This is a link to Scholastic.com
This is a link to Scholastic.com
what is differentiated instruction?
Differentiation means tailoring instruction to meet individual needs. Whether teachers differentiate content, process, products, or the learning environment, the use of ongoing assessment and flexible grouping makes this a successful approach to instruction.
Review this link at READING rockets to find articles and even a webcast about differentiation.
Review this link at READING rockets to find articles and even a webcast about differentiation.
differentiation central
Reach every learner every day through differentiated instruction.
Differentiating instruction in the elementary classroom
Tomlinson, C. A. (August, 2000). Differentiation of Instruction in the Elementary Grades. ERIC Digest. Champaign, IL: ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education. Retrieved from http://ceep.crc.uiuc.edu/eecearchive/digests/2000/tomlin00.pdf
intergrating differentiated instruction and understanding by design
Tomlinson, C. A. & McTighe, J. (2006). Integrating differentiated instruction and understanding by design: Connecting content and kids. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development.
mapping a route toward differentiated instruction
Carol Ann Tomlinson is one of the foremost names you will find related to differentiated instruction.
Tomlinson, C. A. (1999). Mapping a route toward differentiated instruction. Educational Leadership, 57(1), 12-16. Retrieved from http://www.ascd.org/ASCD/pdf/journals/ed_lead/el199909_tomlinson.pdf
Tomlinson, C. A. (1999). Mapping a route toward differentiated instruction. Educational Leadership, 57(1), 12-16. Retrieved from http://www.ascd.org/ASCD/pdf/journals/ed_lead/el199909_tomlinson.pdf
three-tiered models of intervention and evidence based practice(RTI)
This site focuses on the general category of Response to Intervention (RTI), and includes information on system change models which have been shown to be effective in improving student achievement, such as School-Wide Positive Behavior Supports (SW-PBS), Professional Learning Communities (PLC) and High Schools That Work (HSTW).
national center on response to intervention(RTI)
This is a website with information and resources on RTI.
rti
Another website for resource on RTI
differentiating instruction: teaching differently to improve student outcomes
Gibson, V. (2010). Differentiating instruction: Teaching differently to improve student outcomes. Austin, TX: Compass Learning. Retrieved from http://www.compasslearning.com/docs/1252WP-DIFINST-1110-WEB.pdf
differentiated reading instruction
Robert reads well in Spanish but speaks very little English. Marisa has trouble decoding basic stories. And Ms. Johnson, their second grade teacher, must teach them both to read – along with 23 other students. How? She must differentiate classroom instruction.
Differentiated Reading Instruction: Teaching Every Child is a 60-minute webcast that outlines the most effective strategies teachers can use to address the many different needs of each of their students – so that kids capable of learning to read, like Robert and Marisa, won't fall behind.
Differentiated Reading Instruction: Teaching Every Child is a 60-minute webcast that outlines the most effective strategies teachers can use to address the many different needs of each of their students – so that kids capable of learning to read, like Robert and Marisa, won't fall behind.
Missouri English language proficiency standards and grade level expectations
This is a document that shows how DESE suggested differentiating for ELS with the previous TESOL standards.