1. Differentiating Instruction
Preassessment
KuDos
Choice Boards

2. DIFFERENTIATION Curriculum: Content/Process/Product
Student: Readiness/Interest/Learning Style

3. A Working Definition of Differentiation Differentiation has come to mean “consistently using a variety of instructional approaches to modify content, process, and/or products in response to learning readiness and interest of academically diverse students.” Tomlinson, Carol Ann. The Differentiated Classroom

5. When Differentiating Instruction, The Three Most Important Questions to Continually Ask Yourself...
What do I want may students to know, understand, and be able to do?
What will I do instructionally to get my students to learn this?
How will my students show what they know?

6. KuDos
KNOW
Facts, vocabulary, dates, rules, people, places. Written as a list of things most often memorized
UNDERSTAND
Concept, principles, generalizations. Written as a sentence describing the BIG IDEAS
BE ABLE TO DO
Basic skills, creative and critical thinking, life skills. Describe independent action, application of learning. Written beginning with a verb (usually Blooms verb)

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20. CHOICE BOARDS Students choose from a menu of options
Choice Activities
CHOICE BOARDS
Students choose from a menu of options
Tasks vary by process and interest
Some anchor activities can be required of all students
Can be used for homework, projects, and assessment

22. Build Your Own Choice Board
Choose a content topic and language structure.
Create a choice board of activities, projects, or performances with your diverse student learners in mind.

23. This contract belongs to _____________________________________
FRIENDSHIPS
Shape up!
Reading Contract
Choose an activity from each shape group. Cut out your three choices and glue them
Below. You are responsible for finishing these activities by _________. Have fun!
This contract belongs to _____________________________________

24. Make a poster advertising yourself as a good friend. Use words and
pictures to help make
people want to be your
friend. Make sure your
name is an important
part of the poster
Make a two sided
circle-rama. Use it to tell
people what makes you a
good friend. Use pictures
and words and make
sure your name is an
important part of the
display
Make a mobile that
shows what makes you
a good friend. Use
pictures and words
to hang on your mobile.
Write your name on the
top of the mobile in
beautiful letters.
Get with a
friend and make
a puppet show
about a problem and
the solution in your book
Get with a
friend and act out
a problem and its
solution from your
book
Meet with me
and tell me about a
problem and its solution
from the story. Then tell
me about a problem you have
had and how you solved it
Draw a picture of a problem
in the story. Then use words
to tell about the problem and
how the characters solved
their problem
Write a letter to one of the
characters in your book. Tell
them about a problem you have.
Then have them write back with
a solution to your problem.
Think about another
problem one of the
characters in your book
might have. Write a new
story for the book about the
problem and tell how it
was solved.