Master kindergarten teacher Cindy Middendorf shares her strategies for creating a nurturing, choice-based learning environment where all learners thrive. Packed with research-based tips, model lessons, photos, and student samples, this guide shows how to teach the kindergarten curriculum in a way that engages varied learning styles and taps multiple intelligences. Middendorf also shares expert advice on how to establish an effective classroom management system that supports differentiated learning. For use with Grade K....

This 40-week planner, complete with interior storage pocket, is chockfull of resources to help teachers streamline and focus differentiated instruction. Designed by an award-winning teacher whose specialty is differentiation, this sturdy planner includes:

¥ a large planning grid with mini-planning checklists for each week

¥ a differentiation planning guide and lesson plan template

¥ quick-tip guides and checklists for:

¥ starting the year off right

¥ selecting differentiated learning tools

¥ tiering instruction

¥ working with multiple intelligences and learning modalities

¥ tapping higher-level thinking with Bloom's Taxonomy

¥ using questioning strategies

¥ integrating assessment

¥ at-a-glance calendars and student information pages

¥ weekly tips for differentiating instruction, management, and assessment

PLUS: CD with customize-and-print planning grids, lesson templates, and other tools to streamline planning and save time. For use with Grades 1Ð6....

Drawing on her 22 years of experience as a kindergarten teacher, Cindy Middendorf has compiled this amazing resource packed with research-based activities, lessons, and strategies to increase students’ oral language skills. She shares rhymes, chants, action stories, and songs that kids adore—and that hone phonemic awareness and build vocabulary. She demonstrates how to boost oral language use in centers, how to foster social skills through language, and how to encourage language development at home. Her differentiated approach and classroom-tested ideas will help every student in your classroom get ready to read. For use with Grades PreK–K....