🎯 Mastery-Based Learning + Diffit Toolkit

Help students move at their own pace without compromising rigor. This toolkit highlights current Diffit activities you can use to scaffold, assess, and personalize learning.

You don’t have to reinvent your curriculum to adopt mastery-based learning. With flexible materials generated in Diffit, you can help every learner work toward grade-level expectations at the pace that’s right for them. Use the activity sets below to support goal-setting, practice, and demonstration of mastery.

How to Use This Toolkit

Pick one set to start. Assign activities as independent tasks, small‑group stations, or quick checks. Most activities can be regenerated with new texts and reused across units.

📈 Goal‑Setting & Progress Monitoring

  • Read and Take Notes: Students capture key points while reading to show current understanding and gaps.
  • Cornell Notes (Learning Objective): Structured notes aligned to a target make progress visible.
  • 3-2-1 What I Learned: Quick reflection to self‑assess after a lesson or text.
  • One Thing I Learned: Simple exit check to track incremental mastery.

📚 Personalized Practice

  • Reading Passage: Assign leveled versions to match readiness while aiming at the same goal.
  • Read and Annotate: Targeted markup to practice evidence‑finding and comprehension.
  • Main Idea (By Paragraph): Stepwise practice identifying central ideas and details.
  • Key Vocabulary with Images: Concept and language development to unlock the text.

🧠 Mastery Demonstration

  • ACE Short Answer Question: Answer‑Cite‑Explain format to show evidence‑based reasoning.
  • RACE Short Answer Question: Restate‑Answer‑Cite‑Explain scaffold for clear responses.
  • CER Open Ended Question: Claim‑Evidence‑Reasoning to demonstrate deeper understanding.
  • Multiple Choice Questions: Quick checks for targeted standards or skills.

💡 Tips for Differentiating with Diffit

  • Generate multiple reading levels for the same passage, then bring students together for a common discussion.
  • Pair Key Vocabulary or Key Vocabulary with Images with any reading to support independence.
  • Use Main Idea (By Paragraph) before ACE/RACE to scaffold into evidence‑based writing.
  • Rotate between Read and Annotate and Multiple Choice Questions for practice plus quick mastery checks.