Servilio, K. (2009). You get to choose! motivating students to read through differentiated instruction. TEACHING Exceptional Children Plus, 2-10.
Kathryn Servilio, wrote this article on two educators, Melissa and Kathy, who have created a program that consists of differentiated instruction in which students have shown growth in their schooling. This program has been designed in a 7 step formula. Each stage of the process reveals the step and a set of guiding questions to go along.
In step one, you are to identify the needs of the students and their learning styles; in step two, you assess current achievement; step three focuses on research based strategies for reading, comprehension, and personal connection. In step four we look at differentiated material; step five is where students develop choice and classroom implementation; In step six, a portfolio is conducted for evaluation and in step seven student’s performances are evaluated. The purpose of this program was to see if differentiated instruction combined with student choice can increase student engagement and learning. Surprisingly, this program has been successful and is something to consider into your teaching practice when using differentiated instruction for various students.