Powerful Differentiation Tools
Powerful Differentiation Tools
Support all your learners with Scope’s many differentiation tools—from leveled-texts to audio read-alouds and lots more. Watch this video for a quick overview of these tools, and scroll down to learn more.
Use These 6 Differentiation Tools:
Use These 6 Differentiation Tools:
1. Leveled Texts
1. Leveled Texts
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Every narrative nonfiction feature is available on two levels. The lower-Lexile version can be found on the left side of the story page.
2. Scaffolded Skill-Building Activities
2. Scaffolded Skill-Building Activities
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Many of Scope’s activities come on two levels: one with more scaffolding and one with less. Quizzes, summarizing, text evidence, central ideas, and text structure activities all come on two levels with each issue.
3. Audio Read-Alouds
3. Audio Read-Alouds
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There are two audio tools: (1) Text-to-Speech, which highlights each word on-screen as it is read—ideal for striving readers and Multilingual Learners, and (2) authors reading their stories to your students—ideal for modeling fluency and expression.
4. Spanish-Language Version
4. Spanish-Language Version
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Each narrative nonfiction feature is available in Spanish.
5. Vocabulary Slideshows
5. Vocabulary Slideshows
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In our vocabulary slideshows (found in the Resources tab), words are pronounced, defined, and accompanied by a photograph or video clip. Each issue comes with at least one vocabulary slideshow.
6. Choice Boards
6. Choice Boards
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In addition to the writing prompts at the end of many stories, we also provide Choice Boards, which offer alternative culminating tasks for students to choose from around a single Scope story. A Choice Board can be found in the Resources tab of several stories each issue.