Differentiated Instructional Strategies for Writing in the Content Areas

Differentiated Instructional Strategies for Writing in the Content Areas

Author: Carolyn Chapman

Publisher: Corwin Press

Published: 2009-07-30

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1452273642

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"Filled with easy-to-implement ideas, clearly explained. This book helps teachers differentiate with confidence. I absolutely recommend it to ALL teachers." —Steve Knobl, Principal Gulf High School, New Port Richey, FL "Chapman and King have done it again. The new edition has so many new activities and strategies for teachers to help students become motivated to write and become better writers!" —Linda Prichard, PreK/Fifth-Grade Instructional Specialist Rutherford County Schools, Murfreesboro, TN Use writing as a tool for helping students master content! Every classroom is made up of students at different levels of proficiency in writing. This concise guide helps teachers work with each student′s unique skills and needs so that the student learns to apply information, demonstrate content mastery, think creatively and critically, and solve real-world problems through writing. This updated edition of a best-selling book offers explicit strategies for differentiating writing instruction to help students learn content and develop as writers. The authors address how to create a climate for writing, use flexible groupings, differentiate instruction, and assess student writing. Offering new strategies and activities for effective writing instruction, this second edition: Covers informational text writing and critical thinking skills Includes guidance for working with English language learners Discusses current research about writing and learning Offers expanded coverage of assessment methods and tools Differentiated Instructional Strategies for Writing in the Content Areas provides educators with the tools they need to address students′ writing and learning needs across different grade levels, developmental stages, and learning styles.


Differentiated Instructional Strategies for Reading in the Content Areas

Differentiated Instructional Strategies for Reading in the Content Areas

Author: Carolyn Chapman

Publisher: Corwin Press

Published: 2009-07-01

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1452273634

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"Filled with activities, ideas, and methods for integrating reading instruction, Chapman and King′s text provides content classrooms with necessary materials for differentiating reading instruction to meet individual student needs." —Anita Price Davis, Professor Emerita of Education Converse College "Offers best practices for before, during, and after reading to improve comprehension; great ideas for assessing vocabulary knowledge and teaching vocabulary; and excellent activities to help with interventions for RTI." —Coleen Martin, Fifth-Grade Teacher Wilder Waite Grade School, Peoria, IL Increase understanding of content by strengthening every learner′s reading skills! Completely revised and reorganized, this second edition of the best-selling guide by Carolyn Chapman and Rita S. King offers creative, substantive methods for increasing students′ content learning by helping them become better readers. Featuring new strategies, current research, expanded coverage of key topics, plus new material on planning, and information about English language learners, this updated edition shows how to use differentiated instruction, multiple intelligences, scaffolding, constructivism, and cooperative learning methods to support reading comprehension. With ideas for all subject areas, including in math, science, social studies, and other subject areas, the book helps teachers: Create the right environment for motivating readers Assess readers effectively Incorporate guided reading, shared reading, a four-block model, language experience, and read-alouds Teach vocabulary using methods such as visuals, context clues, and miscue analysis Improve comprehension before, during, and after reading Brimming with samples, suggestions, and lists that facilitate quick implementation in the classroom, this second edition of Differentiated Instructional Strategies for Reading in the Content Areas helps ensure that all students can experience improved learning and achievement!


Differentiated Instructional Strategies for Writing in the Content Areas

Differentiated Instructional Strategies for Writing in the Content Areas

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Published: 2009

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ISBN-13: 9781506309385

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Internationally known consultants, educators, and authors Carolyn Chapman and Rita King discuss the importance of differentiated instructional strategies when teaching students to become creative self-directed writers. By creating an effective learning environment and understanding the student's interests and background, teachers can keep the child's interest and help them brainstorm and write freely. Introduced are several organized lessons plans and writing activities that teachers can use to tap into students' writing potential. These include partner grouping activities, graphic organizers, pre-writing activities, and brainstorming activities.


Differentiating for the Young Child

Differentiating for the Young Child

Author: Joan Franklin Smutny

Publisher: Corwin Press

Published: 2009-10-15

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1412975565

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Designed to help teachers meet the diverse needs of young children, this book offers differentiated strategies for promoting intellectual discovery and creative thinking across key disciplines.


Differentiated Instructional Strategies

Differentiated Instructional Strategies

Author: Gayle Gregory

Publisher: Corwin Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9781412936408

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In this fascinating book, the author of The Hinge Factor and The Weather Factor surveys revolutions across the centuries, vividly portraying the people and events that brought wrenching, often enduring and always bloody change to countries and societies almost overnight. Durschmied begins with the French Revolution and goes on to examine the revolutions of Mexico in 1910, Russia in 1917, and Japan in 1945, as well as the failed putsch against Hitler in 1944. His account of the Cuban Revolution is peppered with personal anecdotes for he was the first foreign correspondent to meet Castro when the future leader was still in the Sierra Maestra. He concludes with the Iranian Revolution that ousted the Shah in 1979 another that he personally covered and, in a new preface, extends his analysis to the Arab Spring.Each revolution, Durschmied contends, has its own dynamic and memorable cast of characters, but all too often the end result is the same: mayhem, betrayal, glory, and death. Unlike the American Revolution, which is the counterexample, few revolutions are spared the harsh reality that most devour their own children. Durschmied is a supremely gifted reporter who has transformed the media he works in. Newsweek A] light and lively narrative that serves as a useful introduction for the general reader. Library Journal


How to Differentiate Instruction in Academically Diverse Classrooms

How to Differentiate Instruction in Academically Diverse Classrooms

Author: Carol Ann Tomlinson

Publisher: ASCD

Published: 2017-03-22

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 1416623337

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First published in 1995 as How to Differentiate Instruction in Mixed-Ability Classrooms, this new edition reflects evolving best practices, practitioners' experience, and Tomlinson's ongoing thinking about how to help all students access high-quality curriculum; engage in meaningful learning experiences; and feel safe and valued in their school. Written as a practical guide for teachers, this expanded 3rd edition of Carol Ann Tomlinson's groundbreaking work covers the fundamentals of differentiation and provides additional guidelines and new strategies for how to go about it. You'll learn What differentiation is and why it's essential How to set up the flexible and supportive learning environment that promotes success How to manage a differentiated classroom How to plan lessons differentiated by readiness, interest, and learning profile How to differentiate content, process, and products How to prepare students, parents, and yourself for the challenge of differentiation We differentiate instruction to honor the reality of the students we teach. They are energetic and outgoing. They are quiet and curious. They are confident and self-doubting. They are interested in a thousand things and deeply immersed in a particular topic. They are academically advanced and "kids in the middle" and struggling due to cognitive, emotional, economic, or sociological challenges. More of them than ever speak a different language at home. They learn at different rates and in different ways. And they all come together in our academically diverse classrooms.


Planning and Organizing Standards-Based Differentiated Instruction

Planning and Organizing Standards-Based Differentiated Instruction

Author: Carolyn Chapman

Publisher: Corwin Press

Published: 2013-12-11

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1452299552

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Work smarter—not harder—for effective differentiation! This updated bestseller from authors Carol Chapman and Rita King is your comprehensive resource for standards-based, Common Core-ready differentiation. Meet your students’ individual learning needs and create a positive classroom environment. Includes ready-to-use tools, agendas, checklists, and organizers to help you: “Zap” gaps in learning with 12 innovative planning models Motivate students through diverse approaches, including choice, respect, and self-efficacy Identify and individualize teaching methods for students who are nervous, impatient, “turned off,” or otherwise difficult to reach Organize differentiated lessons and routines Customize parent-teacher communications for students from diverse backgrounds


Writing in the Content Areas

Writing in the Content Areas

Author: Amy Benjamin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-11-07

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 1317925734

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Do you spend entirely too much time correcting your students' papers? Do your students' essays and term papers take side trips to nowhere? Is their writing riddled with mechanical errors? Do their lab reports and essays lack specificity and clarity? Writing in the Content Areas, Second Edition is for middle and high school content area teachers who assign essays, term papers, lab reports, and other writing tasks to students. This book provides strategies and tips to help teachers of social studies, science, art, etc. improve the quality of students' writing and apply national and state curriculum standards in your classroom. The strategies in this book can be integrated easily into every teacher's daily plans. They will help your students improve their abilities to - reflect before writing - organize and classify - provide detail without padding - use technical terminology correctly - avoid unnecessary words - spell correctly - take useful notes while they read and during your lectures. This book will help teachers - get what they want from a writing task - frame their assignments more precisely - correct student papers more quickly and efficiently The new second edition offers activities and strategies which involve technology (word processing, presentation programming, the Internet, and e-communications), differentiated instruction, and brain-based learning.