- 208 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About This Book
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, and the arts. Also included is coverage of differentiated instruction for English language learners, brain-based learning and multiple intelligences and the impact of differentiated instruction on high stakes testing.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Meet the Author
- How To Use This Book
- 1 Foundations
- 2 Where Do I Start?
- 3 The Language of Differentiated Instruction
- 4 Language Arts:
- 5 Teaching for Abstract Thinking
- 6 Concept Mapping
- 7 Teaching Question-Making
- 8 Differentiating Instruction for English Language Learners
- 9 Differentiating Instruction Through the Arts
- 10 Paradigms for Differentiated Instruction
- 11 Model Differentiated Instruction Lessons
- Appendix A: Assessment Guide
- Appendix B: Teaching Emotionally Fragile Children
- Appendix C: Teaching Gifted and Talented Children
- Appendix D: Planning Differentiated Instruction
- Appendix E: A Mental Map for the Differentiated Instruction Teacher
- Appendix F: The Think Test
- Appendix G: Hereās Where You Lose Me, Teacher
- Appendix H: The State-of-the-Art Differentiated Instruction Classroom
- Appendix I: Responding to Wrong Answers
- Appendix J: Scaffolding and Differentiated Instruction
- References