Literature for Every Learner (Grades 3-5): Differentiating Instruction with Menus for Poetry, Short Stories, and Novels

Literature for Every Learner: Differentiating Instruction with Menus for Poetry, Short Stories, and Novels (Grades 3–5) offers teachers everything needed to create a student-centered learning environment based on choice. It contains attractive reproducible menus for novels, short stories, and poems commonly used in the grade 3–5 classroom as well as titles suggested by the Common Core State Standards. Each menu is based on the levels of Bloom's revised taxonomy, as well as incorporates different learning styles. These menus can be used to guide students in making decisions as to which products they will develop after studying a major piece of literature. Using creative and challenging choices found in a variety of menu formats, students will look forward to sharing their newfound knowledge throughout the year. Also included are specific guidelines for products, rubrics for assessing student products, and teacher introduction pages for each menu.