Differentiated Instruction
Writer’s Workspace supports Differentiated Instruction to help all learners acquire the language usage skills necessary to be effective communicators.
Research-based techniques and ongoing scaffolding of skills help all learners improve their mastery of the TEKS. The specific needs of each type of learner are targeted, ensuring that all students reach their goal.
- Guided skill instruction in the Student eBook helps students in writing, processing, and understanding the assignment.
- Additional background information, important for providing the necessary context, is included in the Interactive Reading activities.
- Language proficiency standards are addressed at point-of-use throughout the Writing Workshop-Workshop Editor.
- Challenge Workshops provide students with writing activities where scaffolding has been removed to challenge and extend students writing development.
- ELPS correlations in the Online Teacher Guides support classroom instruction and ensure ELPS coverage.
- Speaking and Listening activities are designed for all levels. These activities are especially helpful for struggling readers who may need strategies for active listening, group discussion, and presenting.
- The Teacher Guides give teachers the activities they need to reach each student at his or her level
- Leveled Activities throughout the Reading-Writing Teacher Guides offer options for differentiated instruction to help meet the needs of all students including English Language Learners and Approaching Level students.
- Differentiated Instruction Activities provide alternate instruction for students at specified levels.
- eBook Teacher Editions provide alternate suggestions for differentiating instruction.
- Interactive Reading Activities contain selections, guided reading strategies, and places for students to mark up text and write answers. Activities include interactive exercises on literary elements, vocabulary, and writing. The three versions include:
- Red Level for students at or above grade level
- Red Level for students at or above grade level
- Purple for English language learners
- Audio Support provides on-screen audio for eBook and Interactive Reading activities. Audio supports students with comprehending text and connecting sounds to printed text.
- Student Blackline Masters in the Teacher eBook supporting differentiated instruction include:
- Composition Practice, Enrichment, and Reteaching
- Grammar Practice, Enrichment, and Reteaching
- Listening and Speaking Activities
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