Master kindergarten teacher Cindy Middendorf shares her strategies for creating a nurturing, choice-based learning environment where all learners thrive. Packed with research-based tips, model lessons, photos, and student samples, this guide shows how to teach the kindergarten curriculum in a way that engages varied learning styles and taps multiple intelligences. Middendorf also shares expert advice on how to establish an effective classroom management system that supports differentiated learning.

Scholastic Classroom Resources Differentiating Instruction in Kindergarten (SC987029)

Education & Teaching

Middendorf, Cindy

Schools & Teaching

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Drawing on her 22 years of experience as a kindergarten teacher, Cindy Middendorf has compiled this amazing resource packed with research-based activities, lessons, and strategies to increase students’ oral language skills. She shares rhymes, chants, action stories, and songs that kids adore—and that hone phonemic awareness and build vocabulary. She demonstrates how to boost oral language use in centers, how to foster social skills through language, and how to encourage language development at home. Her differentiated approach and classroom-tested ideas will help every student in your classroom get ready to read. For use with Grades PreK–K.

Building Oral Language Skills in PreK-K: Dozens of Easy, Research-Based Ideas That Develop Children’s Listening, Speaking, and Vocabulary Skills and Lay the Foundation for Reading Success

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Words, Language & Grammar

Scholastic Teaching Resources

This 40-week planner is chockfull of resources to help teachers streamline and focus differentiated instruction. Designed by an award-winning teacher whose specialty is differentiation, this essential planner includes: • a large planning grid with mini-planning checklists for each week • a differentiation planning guide and lesson plan template • quick-tip guides and checklists for: • starting the year off right • selecting differentiated learning tools • tiering instruction • working with multiple intelligences and learning modalities • tapping higher-level thinking with Bloom's Taxonomy • using questioning strategies • integrating assessment • at-a-glance calendars and student information pages • weekly tips for differentiating instruction, management, and assessment PLUS: Writable, customize-and-print planning grids, lesson templates, and other tools to streamline planning and save time! For use with Grades 1-6.

The Scholastic Differentiated Instruction Plan Book

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Mentor teacher and best-selling author Cindy Middendorf shares research-based, classroom-tested lessons, strategies, and activities that help every young reader thrive. Simple routines strengthen the brain-body connection and develop gross motor skills, helping children develop the focus and stamina they need for reading. You’ll find strategies for supporting all students during whole-class lessons, just-right tools that foster success with independent tasks, targeted interventions for different learning styles, and engaging lessons, activities, and interventions for phonemic awareness, phonics, sight words, fluency, and comprehension. For use with Grades PreK-2.

Early Reading Instruction and Intervention: A Sourcebook for PreK-2

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Books by Middendorf, Cindy

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Scholastic Classroom Resources Differentiating Instruction in Kindergarten (SC987029)

Building Oral Language Skills in PreK-K: Dozens of Easy, Research-Based Ideas That Develop Children’s Listening, Speaking, and Vocabulary Skills and Lay the Foundation for Reading Success

The Scholastic Differentiated Instruction Plan Book

Early Reading Instruction and Intervention: A Sourcebook for PreK-2