Succeeding with Differentiation

Newsela is a great differentiation tool for reading. As a teacher, you can login and create classes, then start assigning articles to students. You can choose the same article, but choose the article length and lexile level to assign to each group or student.

Actively Learn lets users make any reading material "their" own by adding questions, annotation, and collaboration which helps educators differentiate their instruction. It is text and videos for ELA, Science, and Social Studies with scaffolds and higher-order questions.

Edcite offers assessments for differentiated instruction. You can create tests and quizzes with different types of questions. Questions can be answered by highlighting text, dragging and dropping text boxes, typing out equations, answering in multiple steps, checking boxes, and even labeling diagrams.

Edpuzzle is a popular site for flipping a classroom or lesson by adding questions to a video and then assessing student's answers to differentiate instruction.

Edji is a tool that lets students interact with online texts through highlighting, annotation, comments, and even emojis. The detailed "heat map" lets educators gauge student understanding and differentiate instruction.

Tween Tribune allows you to get daily access to Associated Press news articles, many of which come with self-scoring quizzes. Lexile levels are K-12 appropriate. You can also find Spanish AP articles, lesson plans, and videos.

Student Interest Inventory

Inventory Analysis

Choice Boards

Weekly Assignment Sheet

Hint Cards

RAFT Writing Assignment

Task Cards

Student Surveys

Project Check-In

• The responses on a check-in form make it easier to give student the feedback they need.

Reading Logs

Exit Ticket Example

Daily Activity Check In (with branching)

End of Class Reflection

See templates of concept maps and Venn diagrams in this Google Drawing Templates Folder

• Concept maps differentiate the process of learning by helping all students organize content in ways that work best for them as learners. Teachers can further differentiate by using concept maps before and during learning.

Answer Pad is a student response system and assessment tool that lets teachers turn their classroom paperless. Also, the "Go Interactive" features allows teachers to collaborate with students in real-time and gauge student understanding to differentiate instruction.

Buncee is a digital canvas for creating presentations or digital stories that can be embedded into a site/blog. Teachers can assign quizzes, track/monitor students, and differentiate instruction.

Hippo video is a web tool for students/educators to create stunning digital videos. Teachers use these videos to introduce a subject, create a screencast, and even gauge student understanding to differentiate instruction.

Another free alternative is Screencastify.

Quizster is a site/app for grading/assessing students work that is submitted to them via photos. Teachers can then annotate, comment, and grade in real-time helping them differentiate instruction.

Pear Deck is an educational tool that lets teachers create quizzes, slides, or presentations. Once the "decks" are created students can respond via their mobile devices. Teachers can the assess student understanding and differentiate instruction in real-time.

Deck.Toys is a classroom engagement platform that brings gamification to learning easily via interactive lessons. Create differentiated pathways that allow your students to go at their own pace. Read the blog at https://blog.tcea.org/deck-toys/.