When we are out in classrooms, we see tons of creative and engaging ways that teachers are adapting content instruction so that it is accessible to their students. We love to see such awesome examples of multisensory and differentiated instruction. Today we have gathered some of our favorite ideas to share in our Around Town Round Up.
Classroom Displays
A growing trend we have seen is creating a focus board which displays what students will be learning during their thematic unit. It is important that these displays are interactive for students so that they have meaning and are not just a visual distraction. For example, students could borrow the books or articles during independent reading time. Also they could interact with the vocabulary or concepts to review before each lesson or may use it as an interactive word wall where students can take words back to their desk when working to help with spelling.
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Jennifer McGowan
Smith Middle School, Vandalia |
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Jackie Vollmer
Driscoll Elementary, Centerville |
We love how this classroom has poster displays of the thematic content that they do as a group and then students work independently on a review activity in their interactive notebooks.
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Mandy Whitfield
Montgomery County ESC- Learning Center East |
Illustrating Concepts and Vocabulary
Many of our classrooms provide visual supports to help students understand the content through objects, photographs, and pictures. This helps students who have difficulty understanding abstract concepts, who may be more visual learners, and/or who have limited prior knowledge in a content area. Visual supports can be used in Reading and Math instruction in addition to Science and Social Studies content.
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Margaux Mayhew
Rosa Parks ELC, Dayton |
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Pam Ellender
Mad River Middle School, Mad River |
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Pam Ellender
Mad River Middle School, Mad River |
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Kim Kohlrus
Beverly Gardens Elementary, Mad River |
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Brittany Bush
Spinning Hills Middle School, Mad River |
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Jamie Minnish
Prass Elementary, Kettering |
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Brittany Bush
Spinning Hills Middle School, Mad River |
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Alisa Hartlage
Northridge Elementary, Northeastern |
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Alisa Hartlage
Northridge Elementary, Northeastern
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Jackie Vollmer
Driscoll Elementary, Centerville |
Multisensory Activities
In addition to visual supports, we see many examples of hands-on activities that are fun and engaging for students.
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adapted Christmas book with velcro characters
Jamie Minnish
Prass Elementary, Kettering |
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butterfly garden
Jamie Minnish
Prass Elementary, Kettering |
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stuffed animal characters
Beth Schmidt
Stevenson Elementary, Mad River |
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goods and services sorting
Lisa George
Trotwood ELC, Trotwood |
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math meeting with manipulatives
Ryle Jarrett
Stevenson Elementary, Mad River |
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Pete the Cat sensory walk
Katy Philpot
Rosa Parks ELC, Dayton |
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| ULS Sight Word book |
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dog phonics mat with magnetic letters
Mary Nolan
Valley Forge Elementary, Huber Heights |
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1st grade city with illustrated student streets
Annette Stine
Kyle Elementary, Troy |
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fractions magnets
Pam Ellender
Mad River Middle School, Mad River |
Differentiation
Another way to support content instruction is to provide differentiated tasks to help students scaffold from foundational skills to higher level skills and/or to provide instruction at the student's learning level.
We love these thematic examples including pizza books ranging from reading complete sentences, using picture supported sentences, and interacting with pizza manipulatives.
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Lisa Orem
Dublin City Schools |
And these planet activities with picture matching, matching pictures to words, and matching words to words.
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Brittany Sword
Valley Elementary, Beavercreek |
For more ideas on supporting content instruction for your students visit our previous posts:
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