Differentiating Textbooks: Strategies to Improve Student Comprehension & Motivation

By Betty Hollas, Char Forsten, Jim Grant

Book Overview

Differentiating Textbooks is the next logical--and practical--step toward improving your students' ability to read, comprehend, and retain what they are taught in content-area textbooks. Find out how to motivate your students as they are confronted with text which is generally written in a less-than-engaging expository style. This helpful guide shows you how to teach the child, not the textbook, and as with differentiated instruction, you will soon discover that this approach is "just part of good teaching."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1884548482
• ISBN13: 9781884548482
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Staff Development for Educator
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

Wonderful Resource!

I got this book at a seminar on differentiating instruction and am glad that I did. It has ideas and activities for grades 4-12. I was able to read it quickly, due to its quick-access format. Included are 87 pages of great ideas on grouping, adapting textbooks, prereading, during reading modifications, and after-reading activities. Following this section are 38 pages of reproducibles. I plan to use strategies from this book immediately in my middle school classes. This is a great resource if you want to "teach the student, not the textbook."