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"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 less-than-engaging expository style. "Differentiating Textbooks" 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." (Grades 4-12)

"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 less-than-engaging expository style. "Differentiating Textbooks" 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." (Grades 4-12)

Make textbooks work for ALL your students. This easy-to-use resource provides over 80 step-by-step strategies to build comprehension while keeping students interest high. With one strategy per page teachers can easily access information on: selecting textbooks and modifying the ones they already have organizing students into heterogeneous pairs and small groups in different and interesting ways and working with how expository information is conveyed and presented to students. With Differentiating Textbooks in hand teachers will learn how to teach the student not the textbook. (4-12) 160 pp.

This easy-to-use resource provides over 80 step-by-step strategies to build comprehension while keeping students' interest high. With one strategy per page, teachers can easily access information on: selecting textbooks and modifying the ones they already have, organizing students into heterogeneous pairs and small groups in different and interesting ways, and working with how expository information is conveyed and presented to students. With Differentiating Textbooks in hand, teachers will learn how to teach the student, not the textbook.160 pp.