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Assessment-based Individualized Instruction and Differentiated Instruction
Find relevant articles, free resources (including whole-class reading, spelling, and grammar assessments), and teaching tips to differentiate instruction in this collection from the Pennington Publishing Blog.
Don’t Teach to the LCD
Our penchant for helping individuals can work cross-purpose to our overall mission of helping all students. In fact, we often wind up teaching to the LCD…
How to Determine Reading Levels
Degrees of Reading Power (DRP)? Fleish-Kincaid? Lexiles? Accelerated Reader ATOS? Reading Recovery Levels? Fry’s Readability? John’s Basic Reading Inventory? Standardized test data? Each of these measures…
How to Differentiate Instruction
With the Response to Intervention (RTI) model now being incorporated into many school districts today, it has become increasingly important to help frame the differentiated instruction…
Assessment-Based Differentiated Instruction
Our understanding of the characteristics and proclivities of our students should inform both the what and the how of instruction. Consider this: students don’t know what…
Reading Intervention: How to Beat the Odds
To beat the odds indicating that only one-in-six remedial readers will ever "catch up" to grade level, we need to analyze what has not worked and…
23 Myths of Differentiated Instruction
Differentiated instruction "is simply a teacher attending to the learning needs of a particular student or small groups of students, rather than teaching a class as…
Don’t Rely on Rigor and Relevance
As a precursor to the current economic crisis, the in vogue educational leadership trend was the Rigor and Relevance Movement. Popularized over the last decade by…