D I F F E R E N T I A T I O N

Differentiation Strategies for Reading Instruction

These documents provide strategies for differentiating while teaching and learning about reading. It explains multiple ways to provide appropriate support for struggling students as well as a sample for how to break up an 80-minute block with those strategies in mind.

• Reading Differentiation Strategies

Differentiation Strategies for Small Group Instruction

This document explains and demonstrates how to separate larger classroom tasks into smaller, more specific skills and actions for students to practice. It also provides an explanation of the process that led to the development of these strategies so that teachers can create new techniques to better serve their purposes in future classes. 

• Practicing Collaborative Work in Centers

This document provides a checklist for creating a tool to help teachers sort students for task-specific intentional groupings.

• Checklists to Determine Small-Group Instruction

The documents linked below provide a step-by-step process for teachers to tie together all of the above strategies, from assessment design through to lesson-specific intentional groupings..

• Gradual Release with Small Group Reading Instruction

• Gradual Release with Small Group Writing Instruction

• Sample ELA Intentional Grouping Progression

Finally, this is a document to help teachers create rubrics for assessing students’ skill proficiency while in small groups.

• Sample Rubric for Grouping Students