1.Differentiated Instruction: What It Is/What It Isn't -- What Is Differentiated Instruction? -- Is It Something New? -- What Differentiated Instruction Is -- What Differentiation Is Not -- Some Research to Support Differentiation -- A Few More Things That Should Be Mentioned -- 2. From Content to Process to Product -- Content, or What to Teach -- Process, or How to Practice -- Product, or How to Assess -- Preparing Yourself -- Preparing the Students -- Readiness -- Interests -- Learning Styles -- Explaining Differentiation to Your Students -- Helping Struggling Learners -- Helping Bilingual and Heritage Language Students -- Management Issues and Ideas -- Establishing Expectations -- Grouping Students and Teaching Cooperative Skills -- Creating a Sense of Community -- Tracking Task Completion -- Grading -- Tic-Tac-Toe (British: Noughts and Crosses) Menu -- 3. Planning a Differentiated Unit -- Identify What Is to Be Taught (Content) -- Preassess Students' Needs and Capabilities -- Choose the Form(s) of Assessment to Be Used (Product) -- Decide on the Method of Presentation -- Select a Variety of Learning Strategies (Process) -- Don't Forget -- Provide Scaffolding -- Bloom's Taxonomy -- Depth of Knowledge (DOK) -- Williams' Taxonomy -- Differentiating for Interests -- Sample Units -- Sports Unit #1 Differentiated by Content/Project-Based Learning -- Sports Unit #2 Differentiated by Process -- Sports Unit #3 Differentiated by Product -- Learning Centers: Weather -- Learning Stations -- Evaluation Phase -- Learning Center: Classroom Museum Differentiated by Interest and Product -- Interdisciplinary Unit: Literature/Differentiated by Interests -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame -- Interdisciplinary Tiered Unit: Valentines -- Lookin' for Love in All Sorts of Places -- Differentiation by Choice/Interests: Cultural Adventure Unit -- Language in Our Community Spanish Level: Elementary or Year 1 -- Project-Based Learning Unit: Natural Disasters -- Placemat Project -- On the Front -- On the Back -- Checklist for a Differentiated Lesson or Unit -- Checklist for Observing a Lesson/Unit that Uses Differentiated Instruction -- 4. Ideas Smorgasbord -- Vocabulary -- Teaching the Vocabulary in a Unit -- Speaking/Listening -- Reading -- Prereading -- Reading Activities -- Post-Reading Projects/Strategies -- Writing -- Another Type of Flipbook -- Blogging -- Cornell Note-Taking -- Fairy Tales -- Review -- Vocabulary Practice -- Verb Practice -- Whole Chapter Practice -- Other -- 5. Differentiated Assessment -- CATs -- Self-Assessment -- Use Choice -- "Show What You Know" Assessments -- "Bingo" Exams -- Contracts -- Tiered Assessments -- Use Context -- IPA: Integrated Product Assessment -- Partner and Group Testing -- Use Variety -- Flex Fund -- Compacting -- Portfolios -- Projects -- Managing Grades -- Rubrics -- 6. Reflections on Differentiation -- Graphics -- Frequently Asked Questions, and Answers -- Appendix A Checklists -- Appendix B The Language of Differentiated Instruction: Key Words and Concepts -- Appendix C Lists of Activities and Strategies by Standards -- Common Core Standards -- ACTFL Standards.