Synopses & Reviews
Literature for Every Learner: Differentiating Instruction With Menus for Poetry, Short Stories, and Novels (Grades 6?8) offers teachers exciting tools to challenge and reach both gifted and advanced students in the classroom. Whether these students need enrichment, choice in independent practice, or even additional academic options resulting from curriculum compacting, this book provide teachers a complete ready-to-use resource for teaching the poetry, short stories, and novels suggested by the Common Core State Standards, as well as those popular in 6?8 classrooms. Each book includes a rubric that can assess different types of products, free choice proposal forms to encourage independent study, specific guidelines for each of the products included in the menus to save the teacher time, and challenging menus to meet the needs of these diverse higher level learners.
Synopsis
Literature for Every Learner: Differentiating Instruction With Menus for Poetry, Short Stories, and Novels (Grades 6-8) offers teachers everything needed to create a student-centered learning environment based on choice. It contains attractive reproducible menus for novels, short stories, and poems commonly used in the grade 6-8 classroom as well as titles suggested by the Common Core State Standards. Each menu is based on the levels of Bloom's revised taxonomy, as well as incorporates different learning styles.
These menus can be used to guide students in making decisions as to which products they will develop after studying a major piece of literature. Using creative and challenging choices found in a variety of menu formats, 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.
Grades 6-8