Differentiated Literacy Strategies for Student Growth and Achievement in Grades K-6

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SAGE Publications, 2005 - Education - 221 pages

The most effective literacy strategies for ALL the young readers, writers, speakers, and listeners in your diverse classroom!

Emerging learners, developing learners, and fluent learners at all stages of development along the literacy continuum-those are the learners in today’s elementary classrooms. With this latest work, noted authors Gregory and Kuzmich give teachers an instructional and assessment framework designed to promote multiple competencies in literacy. With a focus on research-based, data-driven, and differentiated strategies, teachers are offered a guide to:

  • Pre-assessing diverse learners for literacy skills, competencies, learning styles, and learning gaps
  • Implementing a broad array of high-payoff and developmentally appropriate strategies
  • Creating units, lessons, and adjustable assignments that address multiple competencies in literacy learning

About the author (2005)

Lin Kuzmich, of KCS, Inc., is an educational consultant, professor, and author from Loveland, CO. She served the Thompson School District in several roles as the assistant superintendent, executive director of secondary and elementary instruction, director of professional development, and a building principal. Her school was named a 2000 winner of the John R. Irwin Award for Academic Excellence and Improvement. In addition, for the past decade she has been involved in staff development through several universities and the Tointon Institute for Educational Change. Kuzmich is an adjunct professor at both Colorado State University and University of Northern Colorado. She is a senior consultant for the International Center for Leadership in Education, has provided training and consulting to school districts around the country, and has presented at numerous national conferences.