Examples of ways to differentiate instruction
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Math Champs - Pearson
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K to 5
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Math Champs offers 30 free math activities for ages 5 though 11. Choose an age group from three different levels to begin. Topics begin with simple addition and subtraction, but ...more
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Math Champs offers 30 free math activities for ages 5 though 11. Choose an age group from three different levels to begin. Topics begin with simple addition and subtraction, but also include more challenging multiplication and division. Activities provide short instructions to begin play. Turn sound off or on using the button near the top of each game. Choose from most popular games and view high scores. Scores are recorded only after signing up for the site newsletter, but membership is not necessary to play games. This site was created for the UK so American English speakers may find some slightly different spellings.
tag(s): addition (175), decimals (87), division (107), logic (181), multiples (24), multiplication (151), numbers (158), preK (152), subtraction (140)
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Introduce this site on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Use the age ranges (5-7, 7-9, or 9-11) to differentiate for your students. Provide this link on your class website for students to access at home. This is a great site to provide on a list of summer "practice" sites.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Figure This - KnowNet Construction, Inc.
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5 to 10
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Looking for a way to add challenges to your middle school math curriculum or gifted classes? Try Figure This, a site of math challenges developed by the National Council of ...more
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Looking for a way to add challenges to your middle school math curriculum or gifted classes? Try Figure This, a site of math challenges developed by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Figure This offers a number of challenges in English and Spanish to be used in a classroom or offered to families for math challenges at home. A PowerPoint is included to help increase parent involvement. Learn why most manholes are round, how fast your heart beats, and numerous other interesting topics. At the time of this review, there were 80 "Challenges" to explore. All of high interest and intriguing topics! Although mainly math activity, many border on science topics as well. Each activity offers hints and answers explained in many ways. Finding the answer is rather tricky! Scroll to the bottom of the page and look for the link to Answer. Don't miss the Teachers Corner. It includes all beginning materials; PowerPoints, forms, and ideas you need to begin!
tag(s): critical thinking (65), geometric shapes (68), logic (181), percent (51), probability (78), problem solving (145), statistics (87)
In the Classroom
In the classroom, use Figure This to help differentiate instruction. Allow students to work independently, or work in pairs to solve challenges. Introduce the challenge on your interactive whiteboard projector. Then allow students to dive into the challenge! Use for gifted enrichment, or even a Math Challenge Day for a reward. Offer extra credit for the number of challenges solved. Use as a model to allow students to create their own challenges. Add to your website as a fun resource for students and families.
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Shake Sphere - Michael J. Cummings
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6 to 12
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Peruse this Shakespeare Study Guide to find anything and everything you ever wanted to know about Shakespeare, his works, his craft, the Globe Theater, and more. This site is so ...more
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Peruse this Shakespeare Study Guide to find anything and everything you ever wanted to know about Shakespeare, his works, his craft, the Globe Theater, and more. This site is so impressive that it is recommended as a Shakespeare Resource by The New York Times, the British Library, and the BBC. Of course, you will find all the famous sayings (one fell swoop), quotations, and insults.
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tag(s): feudalism (4), hamlet (12), julius caesar (7), literature (205), macbeth (10), midsummer nights dream (5), plays (22), romeo & juliet (7), romeo and juliet (5), shakespeare (133), sonnets (8)
In the Classroom
Make this all inclusive site available to your students on your webpage so they can look up words they do not know, etc. There are so many resources available that you could divide your class into groups and have each group research a different play or sonnet. Along with resources for Shakespeare's writing there are resources for Feudalism, Kings and Queens, castles, stage directions and drama terms, and so much more. Consider introducing your heterogeneous class to Shakespeare by using one of the Animated Shakespeare Videos reviewed here. Also, to help differentiate, look at Shmoop's Shakespeare page, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Slidespeech - Slidespeech
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3 to 12
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Make the Notes on your PowerPoint presentations into narration using this text-to-speech tool. Upload your presentation, being sure to include the information you want read in the Notes...more
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Make the Notes on your PowerPoint presentations into narration using this text-to-speech tool. Upload your presentation, being sure to include the information you want read in the Notes section. (This will be the part spoken by this tool.) Click share to send by email, share a link, or embed the narrated results in a wiki, blog, or site. Also share via Facebook or Twitter. Presentations can be downloaded as a video or saved as a zip file.
tag(s): digital storytelling (60), video (109)
In the Classroom
Use this tool to differentiate instruction for students in your classes. Students can watch the narrated show any time. Students can use this tool to record their own presentation ahead of time and upload to a site for viewing and grading later. Students with speech difficulties (or challenges with English fluency) will appreciate the opportunity to prerecord their presentations without an audience. High school students can also "narrate" a portfolio slide show for Art school applications or a show of accomplishments for college applications. Students can package book reviews or author reports to be shared in the media center. In primary grades, have students "narrate" their portion of a whole-class slide show, then share it with parents and grandparents by URL. They can practice oral reading as they share their story slides. Use for digital storytelling. Have students draw or upload pictures about a story they have written with the words in the Notes area, and have Slidespeech read the story out loud. Create simple narrated slideshows with questions in the notes area for ESL/ELL or speech/language students to practice on their own, such as slides with images of objects and a questions, "Is this a sock or a shoe?" Challenge students to create review aids for each other by writing questions on slides.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Guided Math - Mary Mueller
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K to 5
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The Guided Math blog contains resources, games, and ideas for implementing Guided Math in the elementary classroom. This blog was created by an experienced teacher implementing Guided...more
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The Guided Math blog contains resources, games, and ideas for implementing Guided Math in the elementary classroom. This blog was created by an experienced teacher implementing Guided Math in a multi-age classroom so many items are a result of that need. The Getting Started section contains practical step-by-step information for setting up Guided Math. The Stations portion of the site describes a schedule and rotation plans for groups and centers. Another portion of the site contains math games and card games to be used at centers. If you are in a multi-age setting (or simply have a wide range of skill levels in your classroom), be sure to check out that portion of the blog for suggestions on getting started and daily scheduling.
tag(s): addition (175), classroom management (29), decimals (87), differentiation (13), division (107), fractions (161), measurement (119), multiplication (151), number sense (60), numbers (158), place value (39), subtraction (140)
In the Classroom
Bookmark and save this site for use when implementing math centers or guided math activities. This site offers many ideas for math games, use these as a resource for your classroom. Modify activities as needed for your own use. Differentiate for multiple skill levels using the management tips shared here. Looking for specific content ideas? Choose from the Quick Clicks on the right side of the page to find ideas that have been posted on the blog.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Fact Dash - McGraw-Hill Mathematics
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K to 5
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This easy to use site includes fact practice for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Choose the operation, difficulty level, timed or not, the specific amount of time,...more
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This easy to use site includes fact practice for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Choose the operation, difficulty level, timed or not, the specific amount of time, and horizontal or vertical presentation of problems. Upon completion of 30 problems, a final tally lists your name, date, timed or untimed, number of problems answered correct, incorrect, or skipped. Print this tally using the print button on the screen. Choose the "go" button to view incorrect problems to print or practice.
tag(s): addition (175), division (107), multiplication (151), operations (82), subtraction (140)
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Share this site with students and parents as an option for practicing math facts. Assign for homework and ask students to return with a printout of their tally upon completion. Use this site on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Create a learning station using this site. Differentiate for the ability levels of your students by choosing different operations and difficulty levels. The untimed option removes the stress for struggling students.
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Bedtime Math: Making Math a Fun Part of Kids' Everyday Lives - Laura Overdeck
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K to 4
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Enjoy these engaging and "quick to solve" story problems every day of the year. Topics include content familiar to kids such as Dog Years, The 10 Second Rule, and House ...more
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Enjoy these engaging and "quick to solve" story problems every day of the year. Topics include content familiar to kids such as Dog Years, The 10 Second Rule, and House of Cards. Following each short story is a question for three different age groups - wee ones (preschool), little kids (k-2), and big kids (3rd grade and up). Sign up to receive problems daily by email or check the website daily for new problems.
tag(s): preK (152), problem solving (145)
In the Classroom
Do you have parents who want ideas to help with math (or make it fun) at home? Share this site as an easy way to do math and discuss problem solving at home. Instead of assigning endless worksheets, consider a family bedtime math challenge that parents and kids can do together. Use the problems in a math center - differentiate by choosing different questions from the stories for different student needs. After solving problems, change the numbers in questions to provide additional practice. Display the question of the day as a beginning of class activity or to use as a daily math journal entry.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Asset MathActive for Grades K-2 - Eight Educational Outreach Arizona State University
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K to 2
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Asset Mathactive is a group of flash animated modules containing lessons and activities addressing geometry performance objectives. Choose from well over 50 activities including many...more
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Asset Mathactive is a group of flash animated modules containing lessons and activities addressing geometry performance objectives. Choose from well over 50 activities including many in Spanish and Navajo voice. Read a short description of each activity before choosing a link. Each activity also includes a teacher's guide in PDF format. The guides include Arizona standards, objectives, overview, modeling instructions, assessment, and more. Activities have easy to follow directions, and many contain additional extension activities as well as questions for exploration.
tag(s): angles (56), geometric shapes (68), numbers (158), preK (152)
In the Classroom
This is an excellent site to use to differentiate activities for the various levels of mathematics learners in your classroom. Share the site on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Provide the direct link to relevant activities. Use this site as a learning center for students to work at their own level. Provide this link on your class website for students (and parents) to use at home for enrichment or extra practice.
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Mentor Mob - MentorMob, Inc.
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6 to 12
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Mentor Mob collects, organizes, and shares information on any subject. Create collections of subject matter information (called playlists) and share with anyone. This site is easy to...more
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Mentor Mob collects, organizes, and shares information on any subject. Create collections of subject matter information (called playlists) and share with anyone. This site is easy to follow in creating the playlists. Hint: It is easier to collect the sites and information before creating the playlist, even though you can create the playlist as you find the sites. To view existing playlists, follow the step by step directions found on the left side of the site. Find playlists such as the Solar System with sites arranged in the playlist as you move out from the Sun through the Solar System. As the site grows, more educational playlists will be available. Be sure to play in the sandbox to practice making a playlist before creating your first one.
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Use a playlist to share lessons with other teachers or your students. Create differentiated playlists for students to use for web scavenger hunts or other research projects. When researching together in small groups, students can use MentorMob to share different sites they find and want to use in their project or report. This is a great tool for cooperative group work. IN world language classes, have students create playlists of cultural information. In social studies, have groups collect varying sources on current events topics to show differing points of view.Edge Features:
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Includes Interaction w general public/ public galleries with unmoderated content
Includes social features, such as "friends," comments, ratings by others
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Assessment Websites - Jefferson County Schools
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3 to 12
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Find links to websites offering practice with TCAP, ACT, SAT, and GED tests. There also links to general subject matter assessments for all grade levels. Although TeachersFirst does...more
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Find links to websites offering practice with TCAP, ACT, SAT, and GED tests. There also links to general subject matter assessments for all grade levels. Although TeachersFirst does not typically review "hotlists," this collection is a well-organized way to find a quick-access review. Each topic includes links to several sites for practicing skills for that test, including several other links sorted by subject for review of content material. For example, under the Social Studies heading you will find grade level links as well as geography and state quizzes. Be aware: at the time of this review, about 95% of the links were working.
tag(s): assessment (37), grammar review (26), test prep (65)
In the Classroom
Save this site in your favorites on classroom computers and use specific links as a center. Students can focus on areas of strength or weakness on a math game day or practice test taking by answering previously released test questions. Because this site offers multiple levels and activities for many topics, it is easy to differentiate for ability levels within your class. Include this site on your class web page for students and parents to access from home.
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Math Zapper! - SingingWhale.com
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3 to 8
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Math Zapper is a collection of Flash-based activities that provide practice with fractions, decimals, and percents. View the short tutorial to learn how to play. Choose one of those...more
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Math Zapper is a collection of Flash-based activities that provide practice with fractions, decimals, and percents. View the short tutorial to learn how to play. Choose one of those items from the menu bar, then choose a specific activity such as intro to decimals or adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing by decimals to begin. Pause or continue the program as necessary to view at an individual pace. Progress is displayed with lights on the left side of the display.
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Share a link to the site with students and parents for review at home. Show portions of activities on your interactive whiteboard pausing as necessary as an introduction or review of these concepts. Create a learning station using this site. Allow students to differentiate based on what they currently know/understand.
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Reading Logs - Readinglogs.com
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K to 6
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Reading Logs simplifies reading, spelling, and vocabulary practice and organization. Spelling, reading goals, and vocabulary word lists are provided (online) for you! Upload learning...more
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Reading Logs simplifies reading, spelling, and vocabulary practice and organization. Spelling, reading goals, and vocabulary word lists are provided (online) for you! Upload learning materials to access online. These items are incorporated into the electronic reading log, vocabulary card creator, and the spell practice system. Upload reading lists and reading goals. Goals can be weekly or monthly and can be set up to track the number of minutes or the number of books read. Post vocabulary lists that can be printed or viewed online. Information can be accessed on stand-alone computers, smart phones, and tablets. Registration requires an email address. Read tips for safely managing email registrations here.
tag(s): book lists (77), differentiation (13), independent reading (63), reading comprehension (60), spelling (135), vocabulary (280)
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Upload weekly spelling lists for students to access easily at home. Share this site with parents as a resource for collaborating and tracking students' reading goals. Use this site to differentiate for gifted students, ESL/ELL students, learning support students, and everyone else. Use this site to create a learning station individualized for each student to practice their own vocabulary lists on either a whiteboard or paper, read one of the books on the reading lists, and more.
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Rich Kid, Smart Kid - The Rich Dad Company
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K to 12
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These activities provide an introduction to financial concepts and tips to getting on the right financial footing for a secure future. There are four different activities. Each contains...more
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These activities provide an introduction to financial concepts and tips to getting on the right financial footing for a secure future. There are four different activities. Each contains interactives by grade level-- up through high school. Even thought the cartoons appear juvenile, the concepts are adapted to be appropriate at each level. Concepts included are debt, making profit, and investing assets. In addition to the games, there is a portion of the site for adults. Here you will find lesson plans for each of the activities by grade level: K-2, 3-5, 6-8, or 9-12. Lesson plans include handouts, additional activities, questions for the classroom, and learning objectives.
tag(s): financial literacy (43), money (148)
In the Classroom
Use this site as a resource for financial literacy activities. Create a link to grade-level interactives on classroom computers or computer lab computers after demonstrating how to play on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Differentiate activities for students using the grade-level option. After trying the interactives and completing classroom activities challenge students to create a newspaper article about finances using the Newspaper Clipping Generator.
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Cookie - Cookie.com
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K to 3
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Cookie is a large collection of learning games, videos, worksheets, and arts&crafts for preschool to early elementary. Find math, science, art, and language activities in many different...more
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Cookie is a large collection of learning games, videos, worksheets, and arts&crafts for preschool to early elementary. Find math, science, art, and language activities in many different formats. Search by subject, top games, and new releases. Pre-school and early elementary teachers will appreciate the many videos on the site for learning to write numbers and letters, learning body parts, and days of the week. There are interactives for students related to addition, colors, alphabet letters, and more.
tag(s): alphabet (74), audio books (21), colors (52), geometric shapes (68), matching (20), numbers (158), preK (152), puzzles (158), songs (43), worksheets (30)
In the Classroom
These interactives make great center activities to support learning. Or if individual computers aren't available, use your interactive whiteboard or projector. Consider using the IWB as a student-run center for pairs to take turns. There are numerous activities to choose from and differentiate for your students' needs. This is definitely one to save in your favorites (or bookmark). Be sure to share this link via your newsletter or list it on your class website, blog, or wiki. Use your TeachersFirst public page (part of free membership) to share with a single click!
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Busy Teacher - busyteacher.org
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2 to 12
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This site offers ESL/ELL worksheets for a wide range of subjects, including pronunciation, grammar, reading, listening, writing, and speaking. With a free registration, you can search...more
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This site offers ESL/ELL worksheets for a wide range of subjects, including pronunciation, grammar, reading, listening, writing, and speaking. With a free registration, you can search for the type of worksheet you desire, including review, crosswords, games, etc. You can also submit your own worksheets for inclusion on the site. In the creative writing section of the site, there are also "ready to go" writing prompts (in addition to worksheets).
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tag(s): creative writing (95), descriptive writing (14), grammar review (26), listening (73), pronunciation (36), reading comprehension (60), speaking (13)
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This site offers multiple levels and themes, so it is easy to differentiate for ability levels and interests within your class. Peruse the many printable pages available and determine which are useful for your students. Provide this URL on your class website for students to access (for practice) at home.
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The Readability Test Tool - David Simpson
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1 to 12
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Test any website's readability using The Readability Test Tool. Test readability by URL or direct text input from any source (such as copy/paste of student writing). Simply enter...more
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Test any website's readability using The Readability Test Tool. Test readability by URL or direct text input from any source (such as copy/paste of student writing). Simply enter the web address (URL) and get the readability of the site on several scales. You can also check your own webpages by using the "referer" section. You will get a score for the most used readability indicators: Flesch Kincaid Reading Ease and Grade Level, Gunning Fog Score, Coleman Liau Index, and Automated Readability Index (ARI). The tool also includes explanations of each scale. These tell much more than a simple "grade level."
tag(s): independent reading (63), readability (7), writing (295)
In the Classroom
Use this tool to offer differentiated resources for the different reading levels in your class. If you do discover that a website you want to use is over your students' independent reading level, you can still use it, just open Lingro (reviewed here) first; then enter the URL (web address) you want them to read. Lingro is a study aid and open content dictionary that makes all of the words (on a particular website) clickable for definitions and translation. Of course, if the sentence length or complexity is at a much higher reading level, simple word definitions will not make it "readable" for struggling readers.Why not have students put in the URL for their blog or wiki (or simply paste in a writing sample) to see the level at which they are writing? This is one way to encourage writing as a craft and challenge students to include more varied vocabulary ad sentence structure in their writing.
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Shadow Light Productions - ShadowLight Productions
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2 to 12
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Investigate the art of shadow puppetry through Shadow Light Productions. This is a commercial site featuring performances for school groups, community centers, or various events. Examples...more
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Investigate the art of shadow puppetry through Shadow Light Productions. This is a commercial site featuring performances for school groups, community centers, or various events. Examples of performances with traditional stories appear in written and video format. A commercial venture on this site sells DVDS of actual performances. Begin your study of shadow puppetry at this site. Detailed plans with standards include suggested objectives, strategies, equipment, materials, and resources for audio, video, and texts. These plans answer all your questions on how to use shadow puppetry effectively in your classroom. Examples of lesson plans and student performance give ideas for language arts classes. Some of the images (although appropriate) may appear scary to younger students. So please preview before you share with your class.
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tag(s): halloween (32), short stories (18)
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Share some of this "puppeteer fun" on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Integrate into your Language Arts classroom to discover theme, plot, characterization, or myths and legends in a new way. Science classes can investigate the use of shadow and sound. Shadow puppetry is an easy way to incorporate several multiple intelligences. Easily differentiated plans for ESL/ELL and Gifted students will capture interest and motivation successfully. Use as an enrichment cluster, or after-school activity. Be sure to capture all your class creations on video and share on your class web site or blog.
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Absorb Learning - Crocodile Clips, Ltd.
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10 to 12
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This site was written to be a series of online, interactive courses for Chemistry, Electronics, and Physics. Although much of the site contains lessons to be purchased, there is still...more
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This site was written to be a series of online, interactive courses for Chemistry, Electronics, and Physics. Although much of the site contains lessons to be purchased, there is still a lot of free material available that would make this a valuable resource for content information. Each lesson contains an introduction, explanation of the topic, questions to correspond with the material presented, a summary of information provided, then follow-up review questions.
tag(s): test prep (65)
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Provide a link on classroom computers or in the computer lab for students to review this material at the end of the unit. Place the link on your wiki, site, or blog for homework help. Differentiate for students by providing this link to students struggling with the topics. Use the site as an example, then challenge students to create their own activities on different concepts for classmates to use for review.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Dare to Differentiate - Leslie Grahn
Grades
K to 12
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This wiki is a treasure trove of resources for teachers to use when using the Differentiated Instruction model of instruction. The site is most easily navigated by choosing topics from...more
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This wiki is a treasure trove of resources for teachers to use when using the Differentiated Instruction model of instruction. The site is most easily navigated by choosing topics from the links on the left side of the page. Topics include background information, planning and managing, and professional development tools. After choosing a topic, there is a list of links: some are to videos, others are to Word or PDF documents that can be downloaded for immediate use. One particularly rich resource on the wiki is the section titled Questioning & Thinking Skills. Located here are many resources such as how to write great questions, a Blooms Taxonomy interactive quiz, podcasts about Blooms Taxonomy, an Essential Questions PowerPoint, and much more. This section is worth a visit just to review the resources. Another well-developed portion of the wiki is the Pre-Assessment link. Here you will find many documents to use for pre-assessment of knowledge as well as activating prior knowledge resources.
tag(s): assessment (37), blooms taxonomy (5), differentiation (13), learning styles (8), questioning (20)
In the Classroom
Use the printable resources on the site in your classroom to help differentiate instruction. Share resources from the site during staff meetings to help further knowledge of Differentiated Instruction techniques and management. Break up the wiki into sections and have different staff members present on resources from different parts of the site.
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david, TX, Grades: 9 - 12
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Math 3 Under the Sea! - LearnAlberta.ca
Grades
1 to 3
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This interactive and colorful math activity lets students practice math skills in several different areas. All activities take place in an under the sea environment with included help...more
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This interactive and colorful math activity lets students practice math skills in several different areas. All activities take place in an under the sea environment with included help and vocabulary support. Please note that this site is from Canada, so the money activity uses Canadian currency.
tag(s): differentiation (13), numbers (158), operations (82), vocabulary (280)
In the Classroom
Introduce this site on your interactive whiteboard or projector with the sound turned up. Play the introduction to orient your students. Have students try out this site on individual computers, or as a learning center (maybe on the IWB). For students that are having trouble with math vocabulary, use the provided glossary for explanations of common math terms. Parent/teacher information is available for each of the lessons. Most of the activities have different levels so activities can be differentiated for students.
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