ABSTRACT
162 Our classrooms today are fi lled with diverse students. It is essential for us as teachers to understand how to meet their individual needs and capitalize on each student’s learning strengths. With the goal of meeting individual student needs, lessons should be tailored for each group, each day, each school year. Small-group differentiated reading instruction, often called guided reading, is one instructional context where this can happen. However, effective differentiated instruction is challenging. It takes information, practice, and hard work, and no recipe or “how-to” manual can make it a simple process.
