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Ashlei Livingston
WHAT IS DIFFERENTIATION?
Concerns the ways in which teachers tailor the curriculum and pedagogic practices in the unique cognitive and socio-cultural understandings and practice that each child brings to the classroom, while at the same time maintaining group cohesion.
Louden et.al, pg. 225
Is the curriculum richconceptually based, QUESTIONS TO ASK meaningful to the learner, and built upon Do I, as a teacher, have a complex ideas?
variety of instructional models and strategies to use in developing, refining, and differentiating the curriculum?
Minilessons Choice
Interactive
Types of Centers
Reading Center Big Book Center
Listening Center
Reading Plus Listening Center Writing Center ABC Word Study Center
3. Madlibs
4. Draw an Idiom
REFERENCES
Arquette, C. (2007). Multiple activity literacy centers: Promoting choice and learning differentiation. Illinois Reading Council Journal, 35(3), 3-9. Retrieved from http://indianola.pbworks.com/f/25743059.pdf. Hedrick, K. A. (2012). Differentiation: A Strategic Response to Student Needs. Education \Digest: Essential Readings Condensed For Quick Review, 78(4), 31-36. Retrieved from http://www.eddigest.com/.
Hoover, J. J., & Patton, J. R. (2005). Differentiating Curriculum and Instruction for English-Language Learners
with Special Needs. Intervention In School And Clinic, 40(4), 231-235. Retrieved from http://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ693709. Louden, B., (2005). 8. Literacy teaching practice: Differentiation. (2005). Australian Journal of Language & Literacy, 28(3), 225-231. Retrieved from http://www.thefreelibrary.com/8.+Literacy+teaching+practice%3a+differentiation.-a0140655940. Murray, R., Shea, M., & Shea, B. (2004). Issues in education: Avoiding the one-size-fits-all curriculum: Textsets, inquiry, and differentiating instruction. Childhood Education, 81(1), 33-35, DOI: 0.1080/00094056.2004.10521291.