Differentiating Textbooks: Strategies to Improve Student Comprehension & Motivation

by Betty Hollas, Char Forsten, Jim Grant

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...

• 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."