Differentiating Instruction with Menus - Language Arts

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Sample Menu from this Book - James and the Giant Peach

 

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Differentiating Instruction With Menus offers teachers everything they need to create a student-centered learning environment based on choice. Addressing the four main subject areas (language arts, math, science, and social studies) and the major concepts taught within these areas, these books provide a number of different types of menus that elementary-aged students can use to select exciting products that they will develop so teachers can assess what has been learned—instead of using a traditional worksheet format.

Each book contains attractive reproducible menus, each based on the levels of Bloom's revised taxonomy, for students to use to guide them in making decisions as to which products they will develop after studying a major concept or unit. Using creative and challenging choices found in Tic-Tac-Toe Menus, List Menus, 2-5-8 Menus, Baseball Menus, and Game Show Menus, students will look forward to sharing their newfound knowledge throughout the year. Also included are specific guidelines for products, rubrics for assessing student products, and teacher introduction pages for each menu.

This book includes menus that teach students about language arts genres, mechanics, and novels.

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Table of Contents

Part 1 – All About Menus and Choice

 

Chapter One – Choice

          Why is choice important?

          How can teachers allow choice? / What is a menu?

3 Square – Tic Tac Toe

          List Menus / Challenge Lists

          2-5-8 Menus

          Game Show Menu

          Using Free Choice

 

Chapter Two - Guidelines for products

          $1 Contract

          Product List by Learning Style

          Product Cards

 

Chapter Three – Rubrics

          Use of Rubrics

All Purpose Rubric

Student Taught Lesson Rubric

 

Part 2 – The Menus

Chapter Four – Genres

         Fiction Menu

          Folk Tales

          Tall Tales

          Alphabet Books

          Science Fiction

          Mystery

          Plays

          Poetry

          Non-Fiction

          Biographies

          Genres

 

Chapter Five – Novels

         Mr. Popper Penguins

          How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days

          The Whipping Boy

          How to Eat Fried Worms

          Snow Treasure

          Maniac Magee

          James and the Giant Peach

          From Anna

          Tuck Everlasting

          The Cay

 

Chapter Six – Mechanics

          Spelling / Vocabulary I

          Spelling / Vocabulary II

          Word Play

          Resource Materials

 

Part 3 -- Appendix – Genre Book Lists

          Folk Tales

          Tall Tales

          Alphabet Books

          Science Fiction

          Mystery

 

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