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Differentiation, RTI, and Achievement
How They Work Together
By Carolyn Coil
The framework of your district-level RTI plan is approved; your leadership team is in place; you’ve determined the approach. Interventions will originate from research/evidence-based differentiation strategies you’ve become skilled at by attending professional development workshops. Screening –Intervention – Monitoring – Achievement - Student Success.
Differentiation, RTI, and Achievement: How They Work Together offers 12 specific academic and behavioral student vignettes, detailed examples of assessments of research-based interventions, blank assessment forms for your use, and supportive templates. All forms and checklists are in PDF or customizable WORD format on the included CD.
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Challenging Puzzles –
Language Arts
by Janet Aaker Smith
Next in her series of Challenging Puzzles are Wuzzles, Coded Quotes, Matrix Logic Puzzles, Sudokus, Jig Saw Puzzles, Anagrams, Grammar Libs, Mazes, Fallen Letters, I Have…Who Has, Crosswords, and SAT Preps. Categories include Punctuation, Vocabulary, Grammar, and Literature.
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The
Best Ever Writing Models Revised Edition
by Nancy Polette
Are you and your students tired of the “written report?”
When the assessment is for a written product, give students the opportunity to choose from these 60+ writing models – from advertisement to fable, from character sketch to parody, from metaphor to surprise ending. Students read, observe, and write - answering questions about the model or reading excerpt and then completing their own written product.