🎯 Differentiated Instruction + Diffit Toolkit

Differentiation tailors learning experiences to student needs while keeping grade level goals at the center. With Diffit, you can adapt content quickly and meaningfully. This toolkit highlights activities that help every student access, process, and demonstrate understanding.

What Differentiation Looks Like

There are four main types of differentiation — and Diffit supports them all:

• Content: Adjust complexity or format with leveled passages, vocabulary supports, or images.
• Process: Tailor how students work with texts using notes, annotations, and targeted practice.
• Product: Offer varied ways to show understanding, including short answers and organizers.
• Learning Environment: Support quiet, focused reading or collaborative discussion with clear tasks.

🔍 Access & Comprehension

Help students unlock meaning and build confidence with challenging texts.

• Reading Passage: Assign leveled versions so all students can work toward the same goal.
• Read and Annotate: Mark key ideas, questions, and vocabulary while reading to support understanding.
• Key Vocabulary with Images: Front‑load or reinforce concepts to boost comprehension.
• Cloze Reading: Use context to build fluency and meaning making.

🧠 Deep Thinking

Push students toward analysis and reasoning at any reading level.

• Main Idea (By Paragraph): Analyze structure and central ideas step by step.
• Making Inferences: Use text evidence to draw conclusions beyond the literal.
• Compare and Contrast: Examine similarities and differences across texts or versions.
• Causes and Effects: Trace relationships to explain events or ideas.

🗣️ Expression & Collaboration

Support students in organizing and sharing their thinking.

• ACE Short Answer Question: Answer–Cite–Explain for concise, evidence‑based responses.
• RACE Short Answer Question: Restate–Answer–Cite–Explain with built‑in scaffolds.
• Group Discussion: Structured prompts to synthesize ideas with peers.
• TAG Peer Feedback for Short Answer Questions: Kind, specific, and helpful review to improve writing.

💡 Tips for Using Diffit to Differentiate

• Generate multiple reading levels for a Reading Passage, then converge on a common discussion prompt.
• Front‑load with Key Vocabulary or Key Vocabulary with Images, then move into Read and Annotate.
• Build toward writing by pairing Main Idea (By Paragraph) with ACE or RACE.
• Offer choice in response format: ACE, RACE, PEEL Short Answer Question, or CER Open Ended Question.