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Powerful Tools for Differentiating Instruction Features

TEXT-BASED QUESTIONS
Carefully Designed to Help You Differentiate by Task
When you have a classroom of students of multiple levels, it is important to recognize that all students
might not need exactly the same assignment. The questions in Advanced Language & Literature offer you
a range of options as an instructor, from assessing basic understanding, to nitty-gritty analysis of style,
making it easy for you to differentiate by task.

Question Type How They Work

Understanding These questions guide students to an understanding of the content and move
and Interpreting them toward an interpretation.

These questions ask students to look at craft — how the writer’s choices
create meaning at the level of word, sentence, and beyond. Also includes:
Analyzing • Vocabulary-in-Context question, perfect for supporting language
Language, Style, acquisition and looking closely at diction.
and Structure
• Skill Focus question aligns to the chapter workshops, and spirals skill-
building throughout the book.
These prompts include extended essay and project ideas, ranging from
Topics for reflecting on personal connections to building researched arguments and
Composing more — all delivered in a variety of modes from written to verbal, visual to
project-based.

LEVELED TEXTS
Make It Easy to Differentiate by Text
Each thematic chapter has three text sections of increasing complexity that allow you to tailor your
curricular choices to your students’ needs — while keeping all students contributing to the same
conversation and developing the same skills.

These entry-level texts are brief, high-interest, and relatively
Text Section 1 Foundational
straightforward in terms of content and context.
These texts represent a level of complexity such that a 10th
Text Section 2 Grade-Level grade student should reasonably be able to read and analyze
them with a bit of teacher support.

The most challenging texts in each chapter, these texts have
rich language, sophisticated ideas, or unfamiliar contexts.
Text Section 3 Reach
These texts approach the level of challenge seen in actual AP
®
English classes.

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