Differentiated Instruction: A Guide for Elementary School Teachers

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Eye On Education, 2003 - Education - 174 pages

This book demonstrates how to make your classroom more responsive to the needs of individual students with a wide variety of learning styles, interests, goals, cultural backgrounds, and prior knowledge. Focusing on grades K through 6, it showcases classroom-tested activities and strategies. Differentiated Instruction: A Guide for Elementary School Teachers shows you how to vary your instruction so you can respond to the needs of individual learners. The examples and classroom activities in this book focus on
- reading fiction - reading non-fiction - vocabulary
- spelling - penmanship - map and globe skills
- math - science - the arts
Also included is coverage of
- differentiated instruction for English language learners
- brain-based learning and multiple intelligences
- the impact of differentiated instruction on high stakes testing.

 

Contents

Where Do I Start?
2
Specific and Back to the Generality
18
The Language of Differentiated Instruction
32
Whole Class Instruction for Informational Text
45
Differentiated Instruction for Penmanship
55
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67
6
83
7
95
Differentiating Instruction Through the Arts
119
Reflection
121
Paradigms for Differentiated Instruction
127
Model Differentiated Instruction Lessons
143
Assessment Guide
155
A Mental Map for
161
Responding to Wrong Answers
167
References
173

Differentiating Instruction for English Language Learners
109

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