Embarc Sample Differentiation List

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Advanced Learners

• Provide opportunities for open-ended/self-directed tasks

• Higher-level reading material on same subject

• Focus on higher level questioning

• Encourage creative thought and reward divergent thinking

• Provide problems that do not have a clear solution

• Provide focused opportunities for independent research skills

• Assign tasks that are authentic and are for a real audience

• Involve in creating student-centered feedback guide

• Provide opportunities to display depth and breadth of knowledge

• Provide opportunities to demonstrate content to others

• Accommodate pace through goal setting

• Offer most difficult version first

Struggling Learners

• Use sentence frames

• Provide graphic organizers

• Scaffold and/or chunk content and reading

• Use pneumonic devices

• Restate lesson purpose/ give closure

• Provide background knowledge prior to lesson

• Preview/pre-teach vocabulary

• Use visual aids

• Provide leveled activities and/or assessments

• Model and provide examples

• Strategic student grouping

• Match tasks to student learning styles

• Allow for collaboration

• Allow for opportunities to remediate

• Utilize manipulatives and/or kinesthetic materials

• Make real-word connections with content