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DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION

Speakers we recommend are: Rita King, Gayle Gregory, William Bender, Marilee Sprenger

Differentiating Instruction for Students With Learning Disabilities (2nd Edition) by William N. Bender

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Instructor-friendly, standards-based techniques for teaching students with special needs. Whether teaching inclusive or special education classes, instructors need effective differentiated and brain-compatible methods for learners with learning disabilities, at-risk students, or youngsters who may have learning difficulties. Demonstrating how to differentiate instruction in any classroom, this second edition of the best-selling book Differentiating Instruction for Students With Learning Disabilities shows teachers how to support learners through flexible, practical lessons to help them achieve significant gains in reading comprehension, language arts, and math.

Detailed chapters give you the tools you need to work with student writers of all levels.

PRICE: $34.95 U.S.

Bender Differentiated Instruction

Differentiated Instructional Strategies: One Size Doesn't Fit All by Gayle Gregory and Carolyn Chapman

Differentiated Instructional Strategies

This teacher-friendly guide to differentiating instruction will help you find the strength and uniqueness in every child in your classroom. Differentiated Insructional Strategies presents the practical techniques and processes that teachers can use to adjust learning based on individual students' knowledge, skills, experience, prferences, and needs. Are you looking for the best and newest practices in pedagogy?

This book explores the ones that make a real and positive difference in student achievement. Centers, Projects, Problem-Based Learning, Inquiry Models, and Contracts are all featured, complete with explanations and examples. More than 50 planning models matrixes, rubrics, checklists, and questionnaires are included as well, to help teachers make the right decisions about instruction and assessment on an individual basis.

PRICE: $27.95 U.S.

Differentiated Instructional Strategies for Writing in the Content Areas by Carolyn Chapman and Rita King

This concise guide helps you work with each student’s unique skills and needs so that the student learns to apply information, to demonstrate content mastery, to think and write creatively and critically, and to solve real-world problems. Differentiated Instructional Strategies for Writing in the Content Areas helps you develop students with lifelong self-direction and confidence as writers!

Detailed chapters give you the tools you need to work with student writers of all levels.

PRICE: $21.95 U.S .

Differentiated Instruction for Writing

Differentiated Instructional Strategies for Reading in the Content Areas: One Size Doesn't Fit All by Carolyn Chapman and Rita King

Differentiated Instruction for Reading

Chapman and King have done it again! This straightforward, easy-to-use handbook gives teachers creative yet substantial ideas and methods for infusing phonics, word analysis, vocabulary development, and comprehension strategies into subject-area instruction. As in the original Differentiated Instructional Strategies for Writing in the Content Areas, Differentiated Instructional Strategies for Reading in the Content Areas uses the same eclectic blend of differentiated instruction, multiple intelligences, scaffolding, constructivism, and co-op learning methods and activities.

Each chapter includes samples, suggestions, and lists that you can quickly apply to your own classroom.

PRICE: $21.95 U.S.

Differentiated Instructional Strategies in Practice: Training, Implementation, and Supervision by Gayle Gregory

The expert guide to differentiated professional development to support implementation of differentiated instruction in every classroom!

Differentiated instruction (DI) is a powerful way to meet the individual and diverse needs of all learners, including the adult learner engaged in job-embedded professional development, staff training, and faculty meetings. Best-selling author Gayle H. Gregory uses a "one size doesn't fit all" approach to faculty training, observation, and supervision for DI implementation, enabling teachers, trainers, and principals to identify their own unique strengths and concerns as they work to engage students in the classroom. Topics and features of this workshop-friendly resource include step-by-step training activities, research-based tools, suggestions for working with individual staff members, and tools for implementation and evaluation.

PRICE: $27.95 U.S.

Differentiated Instruction in Practice

Differenting Textbooks: Strategies to Improve Students Comprehension and Motivation by Char Forsten, Jim Grant, and Betty Hollas

Differentiating Textbooks

Differentiating Textbooks is the next logical and practical step toward improving your students' ability to read, comprehend, and retain what they are taught in content-area textbooks. Find out how to motivate your students as they are confronted with text which is generally written in less-than-engaging expository style. "Differentiating Textbooks" shows you how to teach the child, not the textbook, and as with differentiated instruction, you will soon discover that this approach is "just part of good teaching."

PRICE: $24.95 U.S.