Teaching in Multi-Grade Classrooms: A Guide

Teaching in Multi-Grade Classrooms doesn't have to be a challeng

By Kate Ye

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This is a guide to teaching multiple grade levels in one classroom. The teacher will have

to gather materials based on each level, such as informational texts, graphics - etc inaddition to individual assessments according to grade level and topic to be discussed.

Teaching method difficulty: 2/5 

Example

:3 different levels - same subject : English

For this topic, we will discuss “Summarizing a text”

For each grade level, provide the students a summary worksheet and text about the learned skill according to the level.Each grade will have  different terms to focus

 on.

The first group (4th graders) will have the terms “summary” “theme”, the second group (5th and 6th) will also have their own terms regarding summarizing, such as “main idea” “topic” the third group (8thgraders) will have their own text to analyze with terms and examples of brevity, 5whquestions, and what types of media we can summarize.The class will

 silently read  their own terms and text sheets for 5 minutes.The teacher will then start a  discussion , asking each student what interesting points they have read in the individualized text. The teacher will also prompt questions such as“what does theme mean?” “where can we find the main idea?” “What are the 5whquestions?”

The teacher will write on the board all the points the class discussed.(Students are also free to come up to the board and write their ideas too - TPR) Afterwards, the class will work on a

 task   based on the topic, but according to their own grade  level of difficulty.  (ie longer texts for older students)The  assessment  will be based on this  worksheet

The teacher can have the groups peer to peer grade each other's papers and give

 feedback   so they can learn from eachother, or the teacher can provide individual feedback as wel