Differentiating Instruction With Menus
Language Arts (Grades 6-8)
2nd Edition
Published on 3. September 2021
174 pages
978-1-000-49190-6 (ISBN)
Description
The best-selling Differentiating Instruction With Menus series has helped teachers nationwide differentiate instruction for their high-ability learners with easy-to-use menus and exciting tools to challenge and reach gifted and advanced students in the classroom. Each book includes an updated, student-friendly rubric that can assess different types of products, free choice proposal forms to encourage independent study, and new and favorite challenging menus to meet the needs of these diverse higher level learners. Readers will also be able to save time by using updated guidelines that reflect changes in technology for each of the products included in the menus and find direct alignment with standards approved in recent years. Topics addressed in Differentiating Instruction With Menus: Language Arts (Grades 6-8, 2nd ed.) include genres, writing skills, and mechanics.
Grades 6-8
Grades 6-8
Reviews / Votes
With its reproducible menus and immediate applicability, Differentiating Instruction with Menus is one of those books that won't gather dust, as teachers will turn to it for quick reference often throughout the school year.,Kim Rensch,MiddleWeb, 7/6/17In this second edition of Advanced-level Differentiation Instruction with Menus Grades 6-8 series, author Laurie Westphal provides middle school educators with the tools needed to offer a student-centered educational environment that includes learner choice through menus.
,Gifted Child Today, 10/1/17
More details
Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
ISBN-13
978-1-000-49190-6 (9781000491906)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
05/2017
2nd Edition
Prufrock Press
€27.50
Shipment within 3-4 weeks
Person
After teaching science for more than 15 years, both overseas and in the U.S., Laurie E. Westphal now works as an independent gifted education and science consultant. She enjoys developing and presenting staff development on differentiation for various districts and conferences, working with teachers to assist them in planning and developing lessons to meet the needs of their advanced students.
Content
Author's Note Part I: All About Menus and Choice Chapter 1: Choice Chapter 2: How to Use Menus in the Classroom Chapter 3: Guidelines for Products Chapter 4: Rubrics Part II: The Menus Chapter 5: Genres Fiction Science Fiction Graphic Novels Plays Myths Novel Study Poetry Informational Texts Biographies Chapter 6: Literary Analysis Plot Theme Identifying Bias Rhetorical Fallacies Author's Purpose Author Study Chapter 7: Mechanics Analogies Parts of Speech Root Words and Affixes Figurative Language Vocabulary Skills Chapter 8: Writing The Writing Process Self- and Peer Editing Expository Writing Persuasive Writing Reference Materials Research Skills References About the Author Common Core State Standards
