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Differentiated Instruction Flashcards

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  1. A NAPLAN numeracy teacher wants to use anchor activities. What is an anchor activity's main purpose?

    Answer: To keep students productively engaged when they finish assigned work early

    Anchor activities are meaningful independent tasks students move to automatically when finished, preventing downtime and extending learning.

  2. How does curriculum compacting support differentiated NAPLAN instruction for advanced students?

    Answer: It allows mastered content to be replaced with enriched or accelerated work

    Curriculum compacting pre-assesses mastery, then replaces already-known content with more challenging material suited to the student's level.

  3. A student reading two years below grade level joins a NAPLAN literacy preparation class. Which scaffold is most appropriate initially?

    Answer: Provide grade-level texts with graphic organizers and vocabulary pre-teaching

    Scaffolded access to grade-level text maintains high expectations while providing tools that bridge the student's current reading level.

  4. What does 'respectful tasks' mean in a differentiated NAPLAN classroom?

    Answer: Every student's task is equally engaging and challenging for their level, with no busywork

    Respectful tasks ensure no student receives tedious or condescending work; all tasks are equally engaging relative to each learner's readiness.

  5. In NAPLAN test prep, a teacher uses 'think-alouds' during modeling. Which student population benefits most specifically from this strategy?

    Answer: Students who struggle to understand implicit cognitive processes in problem-solving

    Think-alouds make invisible reasoning visible, directly helping students who cannot intuit the steps a proficient reader or mathematician uses.

  6. When a NAPLAN teacher flexibly regroups students after each formative check, this practice is best described as:

    Answer: Responsive grouping based on current data

    Flexible regrouping continuously adjusts groups based on fresh formative data, allowing students to move as their needs change.

  7. A teacher differentiates NAPLAN writing support by adjusting the level of teacher prompting. Students who are less independent receive more structured sentence starters, while others work freely. This modifies which element of instruction?

    Answer: Process

    Adjusting the amount of scaffolding and prompting changes the process by which students engage with and complete the writing task.