Resources

Digital Task Cards for Paraprofessionals

We have little to no time to plan with the para-professionals in our classroom, especially if they are only in our rooms for part of the day. These cards are a great way to communicate your needs and classroom management tips. I print mine out in business card size, laminate them, hole punch the corner for a keychain ring, and then hang them near the entrance of my classroom for the para to reference.

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE THAT SUPPORTS INCLUSION

This is a collection of picture books and chapter books that help raise awareness about disabilities.

HOW INCLUSIVE IS YOUR CLASSROOM?

Use this checklist to help guide your inclusive practices.

Best Practices

ASSET-BASED LESSON PLAN TEMPLATE

Keep a focus on the skills your students have rather than the skills they lack. Keep in mind the Snap & Read program that our district pays for. It can change the Lexile level of the text, eliminate distractions, and so much more.

STATIONS ASSET-BASED LESSON PLAN TEMPLATE

Stations, or learning centers, are a way to differentiate instruction as well as touch different learning modalities.

Formative Assessment Ideas

Looking for a way to activate prior knowledge, assess what student already knows or what they learned? This is a list of creative activators and summarizers.

Choice Boards, Playlists, and Text Sets

This collection includes directions, examples, and other resources to help you build choice boards, playlists, and text sets to add student agency and differentiation into your lesson plans.

Flexible Grouping for Reading Groups

Learn what flexible grouping is and why it is so important, different models of grouping, and other grouping strategies.

Flexible Grouping Template

Asses Students by Ability, not Disability

VIRTUAL STATION ROTATION SLIDE DECK

If you are looking to implement or enhance blended learning in your classroom, this slide deck can help build stations that move virtually.

Paula Kluth's Differentiation Daily

This site is a collection of contains nearly 800 ideas to help educators add interest, relevance, fun, and novelty to classroom instruction. These materials support teachers in diverse classrooms who want to meet the needs of students with a wide range of needs, interests, challenges, and strengths, including learners with disabilities and unique learning profiles.

The Basics of Adaptations

How to Modify Your Grade Level Curriculum

Ideas for Modifications & Accomodations

Explain the Math

Use these projectable sentence frames to help students explain their thinking broken down by concept.

Explain Your Thinking in Math

Use these sentence frames to help students walk through how they solved a problem.

General Sentence Frames

These sentence frames can be used across content areas.

Text Structures: Sentence Frames and Graphic Organizers

Use these sentence frames and graphic organizers to support compare and contrast, cause and effect, explain and describe, proposition and support and, sequence.