Activity board

Options

Differentiation

Content:Learning goals

ProcessResources/materials

Process: Instructional delivery/input

Environment

Product:Assessment

Product: Activity

Review students' assessment data and select individual or groups of students who need additional support or challenge

Remember List Define State Repeat Duplicate Classify Describe Discuss Explain Identify Locate Recognize Report

SelectCircleParaphraseChooseDemonstrateDramatizeIllustrateInterpretSolveCompareCriticizeDistinguishExamineExperiment

QuestionTestArgueContrastDefendJudgeSupportValueEvaluateDevelopWriteCreate Assemble

Adjust content: learning objectives

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Process: Resources/ Materials

Picture book Magazine iPad Newspaper Recording device Listening deviceTeacher assistance (as a second resource, not primary)Website with specific info

Sentence StartersPictorial word wallPersonalized word wall GoalsPhotos/ Images Video clip with demonstrationConcrete examples Glossary Language TranslationColor codes/ labels

At level text using magic school

List cognates

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Personalized goals for task

Create cloze passages

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Graphic Organizers

Supplemental Resources from diffit

Process: Instructional delivery/input

• Use of visual aids
• Plan with more concrete examples
• Enlarge text size
• Chunk text or information
• Multisensory – hands on approach
• Pre-taught material to student prior to whole lesson instruction
• Pre-taught material via at-home activities

• Translate orally or in written form in native language

• Teacher created flipbook / flash cards

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• Mnemonic devices (examples here)

• Gamify (flippidity)

Products: Activities

Matching chart Drawing Timeline Diagram Graphic organizer Map Comic Poster Model Sculpture Diorama Art gallery Mobile Debate Panel discussion Report

Play Readers’ theater Talk show Monologue Song Newspaper Power point Photo essay Collage Response to literature Diary entry Sequel Persuasive essay Song

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Product: Assessments

Use of technology Specify criterion for students Communication book/ Communicator

Student Study guide Rubric in child-friendly languageMultiple Choice optionsFewer questions Questions read aloud to student True/ False Provided with specific study guide

Opportunities to respond orally (via flip)

Leveled to student’s reading levels

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Executive Function Checklist

Choice Board (students choose how to present understanding of content from a list of choices aligned to different learning styles)

Dictation

Environment

Setting:

• Smaller groups
• Preferential seating
• Quieter areas
• Tiered instruction is the educational practice of grouping students by skill and teaching a modified lesson to fit each group's skill level.
• Proximity to the board / teacher

Time

• More time allotted
• Break task into smaller tasks with specific time frame
• Provide scheduled breaks
• Explicit timeline
• Timing cues and prompts (write to this dot by this time)

Level of Support

• Peer buddy
• Teaching assistant

• Cross-age tutors
• Guided reading or guided writing by teacher
• Extra modeling / re-teaching stations
• Technology

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