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Rather than advocating strict tracks and rubrics that challenge even those who love to create tightly controlled herds, Opitz (reading, U. of Northern Colorado) and Ford (reading, U. of Wisconsin Oshkosh) focus on the practical and the needs of individual students in strategies designed to make differentiation a teaching tool rather than a simple matter of arranging desks. They provide models that include key features, sample lessons, suggested texts, ideas for preparing lessons, and even extending instruction. As they do so they show how varying learning groups and support materials to respond to rely situations allows teachers to group without tracking, create connected literature circles and readers' workshops, "jigsaw" learners into the right groups at the right time, and tailor teaching to meet the needs of learners at the time. They provide plenty of samples, making this a good classroom or in-service resource as well as a useful self-study guide. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Lots of books claim to make differentiated instruction possible in any classroom. Do-able Differentiation makes it practical for your classroom. And helps you meet the needs of your students. Instead of time-consuming jargon, Do-able Differentiation spells out teaching strategies that support the biggest classes, work with the busiest curriculums, and bring the best out in all students. Do-able Differentiation puts proven thinking and practices for differentiation into your hands. Michael Opitz and Michael Ford (Reaching Readers and Books & Beyond) present four foundational models for reaching all readers. You'll quickly discover you can do differentiation as you learn to: pinpoint differences among readers and match them to the best differentiation strategies plan effectively to address a variety of learner characteristics support students in understanding a shared text manage small achievement-based groups as readers read appropriate texts group students around multiple texts of varying lengths assist individuals as they each read a self-selected text. And Opitz and Ford really do make differentiation do-able. For each model they include diagrams, key features, sample lessons, and suggested texts, as well as ideas for preparing lessons, reading and responding, extending instruction, and more. In short, the essentials you'll need for success - and even a strong framework to adapt for RTI. Trust the book that makes differentiation easy to understand and easy to do. Read Do-able Differentiation. You'll get the most effective, research-based, and classroom-tested ways to use differentiated instruction to help all your readers.
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