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Differentiation Ideas/Links

kcaprino1 — 2013-03-12 21:31:03 UTC

- You can differentiate in the following ways: content, learning methods, and/or assessment methods.
- Ask students to extend their learning in some way.
- Provide ways for students to help you create assessment versions.
- Think beyond tests and essays as assessment methods.

http://legacy.teachersfirst.com/sped/prof/adapt-strat.html

This link provides 9 steps for differentiation.

http://www.carolinaparent.com/aboutus/writerguidelines.php#submission

This link includes strategies for differentiation. I like the idea about varying questions to

specific students during discussions. I also like the idea about differentiating homework.

Why does everyone in the class have to do the same homework (or classwork)?

http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/content/diff_curriculum.html

I liked the idea about differentiating content here. This idea about asking gifted students to

bring in other disciplines could work well in the English classroom.

http://www.readworks.org/tutorials/six-rules-differentiating

This link provides Six Rules of Differentiation.

http://www.readworks.org/tutorials/differentiating-lessons

This link provides information about how to differentiate a lesson.

http://faculty.scf.edu/sharric/lesson8/diffinst8.pdf

This link provides a PowerPoint presentation to help you think about differentiation.

http://www.nagc.org/index2.aspx?id=978

This link provides English teachers will links to other valuable resources.

http://differentiation.asb-wiki.wikispaces.net/Differentiating+Content

This wiki is about differentiating content.

Using Web 2.0 in the English Classroom

kcaprino1 — 2013-03-12 21:50:47 UTC

Here is a document that provides a list of Web 2.0 tools.

Anytime Activities

kcaprino1 — 2013-03-13 03:33:48 UTC

Here are some activities that can work at any time (with any text):

(1) If you have art supplies (glue, magazine clippings, scissors), choose an emotion or theme and have students represent it with a emotion collage.

(2) Maintain a class Twitter account. Use free time to summarize what happened in class or in the text that day.

(3) Provide students an opportunity to collaborate on a class blog post.

(4) Provide students with an index card. Have them write a passage on the card and a rationale for why they chose this passage from the text. Ask students to share their passage with classmates. Students try to guess why the other student selected this particular passage.

(5) Raid Walmart or Home Depot for paint strips. The names of the colors can provide students with some great poem or short story prompts.

(6) Have a class set of magazine ads at the ready. Spend a few moments having students analyze the rhetoric (tone, audience, purpose, etc.) of the print ads.

(7) Have students write a poem or short story from the perspective of a character who is not the protagonist in the text.

(8) Create a ring of index cards with general literary analysis questions. Bring it out if there are a few minutes left in the class. Students can apply their answers to the current text being studied.

(9) Have sticky notes at the ready (always). Create a deep thinking question to which students can compose an answer and leave it on the board on their way out. This also serves as a wonderful formative assessment tool.

(10) Add your anytime activities here .....