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Differentiated Literacy Centers
Differentiated instructional practice isn't only for small group instruction. In her new book, Differentated Literacy Centers, Margo Southall describes how to create differentiated learning opportunities during center time activities as well. The challenge was to plan and prepare multilevel activities in a way that would be sustainable throughout the year. Put her learnings into practice in your classroom with these sample chapters and activities from the book.
Multi-level center activities are strategy-based tasks designed at three levels of challenge: beginner, intermediate, and advanced. By using these tiered center activities, teachers enable students with different learning needs to apply the same key skills and strategies but at varying levels of complexity and open-endedness. We begin with setting up three core, yearlong centers that develop skills in the key literacy areas: comprehension, fluency, and word study (phonemic awareness, phonics, high-frequency words and vocabulary).
Excerpted from Differentiated Literacy Centers by Margo Southall. Learn more.
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Articles
Introduction to Differentiated Literacy Centers
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Author Margo Southall describes how creating differentiated learning activities in your classroom centers can support standards-based instruction and meet individual student needs.
Scholastic Professional | Differentiated literacy centers offer multilevel literacy activities that are assigned to individuals and groups of students to strengthen specific skills and strategies. Here's how it works.
Lesson Plans
Making Connections/Self-Monitoring
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These lessons and reproducibles provide frameworks for students to make all three levels of connections - text to self, text to text, and text to world.
