📏 Standards-Based Learning + Diffit Toolkit

Whether you're clarifying targets, monitoring progress, or encouraging student voice, Diffit equips you to create leveled texts, scaffolds, and practice that support individual mastery goals while maintaining high expectations.

Customizable and Standards-Aligned
Every Diffit resource can be tailored to your grade-level standards during customization. This ensures your supports stay connected to your instructional goals.

How to Use This Toolkit

SBL centers learning on clear targets and evidence of mastery. This toolkit highlights a handful of Diffit activities that make those principles actionable. Use them to scaffold reading, writing, and discussion while keeping standards at the forefront.

Start small by choosing one or two activities for your current unit. Over time, these routines can become go-to tools for helping students practice, reflect, and show mastery in multiple ways.

🔍 Clear Learning Targets

These activities help students grasp exactly what they are expected to learn, anchoring lessons in clarity and purpose.

• Reading & Summary — reinforces focus on essential ideas tied to standards.
• Main Idea (By Paragraph) — helps students identify evidence that aligns with targets.
• Find the Main Idea — builds clarity by pinpointing exactly what is being learned.
• Reading with Image — supports comprehension of complex standards through visuals.

🧠 Practice with Feedback

Students learn best with repeated opportunities to practice and revise. These tasks support reflection, feedback, and growth toward mastery.

• Short Answer Questions — allows students to demonstrate understanding in their own words.
• RACE Short Answer Question — structures evidence-based responses to align with rubrics.
• Claims, Evidence, Reasoning — pushes students to justify thinking using standard-based criteria.
• Answer and Explain — fosters reflection and revision toward mastery goals.

📊 Mastery Monitoring

These activities give teachers and students visible evidence of progress toward proficiency, helping everyone track growth over time.

• Multiple Choice Questions — quickly checks progress toward proficiency scales.
• 3-2-1 What I Learned — encourages students to self-assess understanding of standards.
• One Thing I Learned — builds metacognition by naming a takeaway connected to targets.
• Compare and Contrast — highlights depth of understanding through standard-aligned analysis.

🗣️ Student Voice & Choice

SBL thrives when students own their learning. These activities promote agency, collaboration, and multiple pathways to mastery.

• Vocabulary Choice Board — provides multiple pathways for students to meet word study standards.
• Group Discussion — lets students articulate reasoning and practice academic discourse.
• Think Pair Share — promotes collaborative processing of standards-aligned tasks.
• TAG Peer Feedback — empowers students to evaluate peers using clear criteria.