Differentiated instruction focuses on teaching strategies that give diverse students multiple options for taking in and processing information, making sense of ideas, and expressing learning. Technology tools can support good instruction and offer personalized learning environments in which students interact with software, conduct research, create products, and communicate with others outside their school. Both differentiated instruction and technology tools are important for 21st-century education, aka digital age learning. Copyright 2007, ISTE ® (International Society for Technology in Education), Differentiating Instruction with Technology for K–5 Classrooms, Grace E. Smith and Stephanie Throne. 1.800.336.5191 or 1.541.302.3777 (Int’l), iste@iste.org, www.iste.org. All rights reserved. Distribution and copying of this excerpt is allowed for educational purposes and use with full attribution to ISTE

Front Row Adaptive learning program for grades K-8 Front Row’s Math and ELA tools are adaptive to a student’s prior level of understanding, so each student gets the practice they need. Address fluency deficits with Front Row’s adaptive practice tools. Works on iPads, Chromebooks, and web browsers Includes over 34,000 Common Core aligned questions Generates report cards to track each student’s progress

Front Row's independent math practice program is and will remain completely free for teachers. There are also a number of free inquiry based lessons at various grade levels for teachers to try with their classes. Teachers also have access to 5 free ELA articles per month to assign to their students.

Math Fact Fluency Practice

As you answer addition and subtraction facts you earn coins As you answer addition and subtraction facts you earn coins. Some equations earn more coins than others.

The content is organized by strand The content is organized by strand. You can assign students to a strand or they can move back and forth between them. The first time a kid works in a domain they take the diagnostic test. This assesses where the kids are at with this specific math strand. It allows you to differentiate for the kids without having to do any additional work. It finds out where they are, and works on those specific standards, no matter the grade.

This is what the work screen looks like.

The Piggy Store!!!!!!

Student Report Card

Leveled Reading Passages

Inquiry Based Lessons Inquiry based lessons are cross-curricular activities that build conceptual understanding of mathematical topics while students explore real-world scenarios! In Front Row’s Inquiry based lessons, students develop the questions to answer and work together to find solutions. These lessons encourage collaboration, critical thinking, and productive struggle among students. By moving away from rote textbook learning and towards real world problem solving, these lessons result in higher student engagement and a much deeper understanding of math concepts.

Try the Site as a student www.frontrowed.com Student sign in First Name Last Name Class Code Session 1 – reecet Session 2 - reecee

Moby Max MobyMax is for all students. Moby's adaptive curriculum creates a unique, individualized education plan for each student, allowing gifted students to progress as quickly as they like while simultaneously ensuring that remedial students get the extra instruction they need. You've never experienced differentiation like this in the classroom.

MyOn.com http://about.myon.com/ Watch an introductory video myON is designed to provide a student centered, personalized literacy environment that offers unlimited access to thousands of enhanced digital books, dynamically matched to each individual learner’s interests and Lexile®* reading level, along with a suite of literacy tools that foster engagement and achievement. Embedded metrics to monitor activity and growth

xtramath.org XtraMath helps your child master the basic addition, subtraction, multiplication and division facts that are the building blocks of your child's math education. Recalling the basic arithmetic facts quickly and easily is essential for success with fractions, decimals, and multi-digit algorithms. It also frees up mental resources for more complex problem solving.

http://www.spellingcity.com/reecep/ VocabularySpellingCity is a fun way to learn spelling and vocabulary words by playing engaging learning games using any word list.

Wonderopolis Wonderopolis walks the line between formal and informal education. Each day, we pose an intriguing question and explore it in a variety of ways. Our approach both informs and encourages new questions, sparking new paths of wonder and discovery in family and classroom settings.

LearnZillion is a website (an open, cloud based curriculum) that provides teachers with a library of interactive math and language arts lessons, videos, quizzes, and assignments for students. K-8 for Math 2-12 for ELA

FYI for Kids is a collection of engaging and high-quality magazine articles designed to enhance the Common Core classroom’s reading repertoire. The objective of this project is to demonstrate a type of text that is essential for increasing students’ engagement in and proficiency with complex texts— short engaging articles that communicate critical information.

www.newsela.com Unlimited access to hundreds of leveled news articles and Common Core–aligned quizzes, with new articles every day.