Dance for Differentiation

A 54321 Grounding Technique is a calming strategy used to support children who are feeling anxiety, are angry, or are overwhelmed. This technique incorporates deep breathing and uses the 5 senses to help the child to center themselves when they feel strong emotions. This is a wonderful tool to use with your class after reading the book "Kona & His Hard Shell" by Crissy Miyake!

Use a think dots template to encourage learner choice when designing activities and assignments. Consider integrating different multiple intelligences or approaches to learning in each think dots section. Have the learners roll a dice to choose their activity or product for an assignment. This also works well as a game board review activity at the end of a unit!

Use this Snack Shop activity as an introduction to basic economics and personal finance on inventory and taking customer orders or as a fun review activity for a math unit on money! This Snack Shop activity can also be used in special education as a job skills training activity.

Use these progress monitoring forms to collect student data on telling time to the hour and half hour. Page 1 is telling time by the hour with a digital clock and an analog clock. Page 2 is telling time to the half hour with a digital clock and an analog clock.

Use this discussion protocol for learners to frame their responses to a text or a question by choosing either intrigue, encourage or inspire to begin their response with! Easily adaptable, but here is one example for using this protocol: "intrigue"- to be curious about, "encourage"- to feel lifted up, "inspire"- to feel urged to do.

Use this blank template for your students to design their own Newspaper or "News" page to support their written expression skills! This is the PDF version of the template, so just print and copy! The four boxes along the bottom of the page can be used for a comic strip or other news!

Use this flipbook with a SEL class meeting or ELA lesson on the story "Arlo & The Great Big Cover-Up" on telling the truth and honesty! Connect the character trait of honesty with being a problem-solver in real life! Simply print, fold on the middle dotted line, cut the two flaps and use the inside empty sections for the students to illustrate or write about their answers to the questions!

Use this Sharing is Caring template with the children's SEL book "Too Many Mangos" to practice sharing with others. Use stamps, stickers, or illustrations for the students to rotate and share their fruit or veggies with others or have each child complete their own basket to share with others!

Use this s'mores/camping theme greeting for a morning meeting or class meeting! Students can use their hands with a partner to build the s'mores or cut out pieces of brown construction paper for s'mores, black construction paper for chocolate pieces, and white construction paper for the marshmallows!

Use this Think Dots game to review facts about Solids & Liquids! Use with partners or in small groups to reinforce student understanding of the science unit on Solids & Liquids! Page 1- On Level, Page 2- Spanish Version, Page 3- Enrichment Version.

Use these sentence starters to support learners to have a model for speaking or writing in complete sentences!

Use these primary-level opinion writing prompts to support your learners as they develop their understanding of the difference between factual and opinion writing!

Use this yearly goal form with your learners to help them brainstorm goals that support their whole self in a new year! Goal setting is an essential skill in social and emotional learning!

Use this Genre Characteristics resource for your intermediate or middle school learners during ELA to support their comprehension of genre elements! The last column is blank for the learners to interact and make connections by writing the title of a text or drawing a picture of a story/part of a story that meets the genre characteristics!

Use these progress monitoring forms to monitor learner progress using the Edmark Signs Around You functional reading program. One form for Signs Around You 1 and one form for Signs Around You 2 is included.

Use this Character Traits graphic organizer to support student identification of character traits of a chosen character in a text! This organizer can be used in small groups, whole group, or for independent work!

Use this Trust Pumpkin for a creative activity using scraps of tissue paper, scraps of paper, dot paints or markers to support learners as they learn to trust God and not worry!

Use this Spatial Concepts progress monitoring data sheet for gathering data on learner progress in math! This includes two half-sheet progress monitoring forms. Use with two small cups and a math manipulative (teddy bear, dino, etc) to demonstrate each concept and pair with the prompt "Where is the ____?".

Use this STEAM/STEM Marble Maze activity to guide your session on gravity and force/motion by building marble mazes with straws, cardboard tubes, a cardboard base, and tape! Page 2 includes a brainstorming section and a reflection section to promote further student inquiry!

These functional math checklists (1 for Time Skills, 1 for Number Skills, and 1 for Money Skills) are designed to use for progress monitoring to determine appropriate IEP goals to write for learners with exceptionalities.