ABSTRACT

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.

chapter 1|13 pages

Foundations

chapter 2|11 pages

Where Do I Start?

chapter 3|12 pages

The Language of Differentiated Instruction

chapter 4|25 pages

Language Arts:

Differentiated Instruction for Reading, Vocabulary, Spelling, and Penmanship

chapter 5|17 pages

Teaching for Abstract Thinking

chapter 6|12 pages

Concept Mapping

chapter 7|13 pages

Teaching Question-Making

chapter 10|16 pages

Paradigms for Differentiated Instruction

chapter 11|12 pages

Model Differentiated Instruction Lessons