Key Benefit Provides specific "how-to" techniques to equip pre-service teachers with the tools they need to differentiate instruction for all students: general education, gifted and talented, challenged, or English Language Learners (ELL). Key Topics: Includes authentic examples from elementary teachers and their real classrooms; advice for implementing strategies in literacy-based classrooms; creative ways to create effective learning environments; appropriate instructional techniques based on students' abilities, learning profiles, and interests; and strategies to differentiate in the reading areas of emerging literacy skills, vocabulary, comprehension, fluency, writing, speaking, listening, and content area reading. The exceptionalities that are covered in the text include Learning Disabilities, Speech and Language Disorders, AD/HD, Emotional/Behavioral Disorders, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Developmental Disabilities, Physical and Severe/Multiple Disabilities, Visual and Hearing Impairments, Accelerated and Gifted students. Unique to this text is the inclusion of a journal kept by an elementary teacher, whose classroom is visited in the text, demonstrating a year's worth of successful implementation of differentiation assessment and instruction. Market: Written for the pre-service or practicing teacher, the book offers ample strategies to positively impact today's diverse classroom environment.
ThriftBooks sells millions of used books at the lowest everyday prices. We personally assess every book's quality and offer rare, out-of-print treasures. We deliver the joy of reading in recyclable packaging with free standard shipping on US orders over $15. ThriftBooks.com. Read more. Spend less.