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Archive: Differentiated Instruction

Many of our articles dated 2000 and earlier can now be found in this archive.

Groupings That Work for Students With Disabilities
By: Jane Burnette (1999)

Peer tutoring, cross-age tutoring, and small learning groups have been shown by research to be effective for teaching reading to students with and without learning disabilities. This articles affirms that using a variety of grouping formats is preferable to whole class instruction or ability grouping.

Using Collaborative Strategic Reading
By: Janette K. Klingner and Sharon Vaughn (1998)

Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) teaches students to use comprehension strategies while working cooperatively. Student strategies include previewing the text; giving ongoing feedback by deciding "click" (I get it) or "clunk" (I don't get it) at the end of each paragraph; "getting the gist" of the most important parts of the text; and "wrapping up" key ideas. Find out how to help students of mixed achievement levels apply comprehension strategies while reading content area text in small groups.

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