English Differentiation Cards

Developed from my need to provide a helpdesk for my students, Differentiation Cards allow your hti / ebi to direct a particular student to a specific part of their analytical writing where they have an issue or weakness. Rather than you needing to dedicate time to one particular student, you can direct them to the differentiation card they need to reflect on to improve their work (automatic differentiation)... as you work your students towards self-actualisation. Now, my students have a clearer sense of what they should be achieving and I am no longer fire-fighting a forest of hands, but able to attend to the more needy. Further, Card 13 allows students to self mark or peer mark against a clear rubric.

Cards
1a Structure SPaG 1b
2a Understand the question Decode the question 2b
3a Respond to the question Thinking of a personal response 3b
4a Critically analyse the text Critical Thinking - Description 4b
5a Critical Thinking - Analysis Critical Thinking - Evaluation 5b
6a RACERS - Restate Sentence Starters (RACERS) 6b
7a RACERS - Answer Sentence Starters (RACERS) 7b
8a RACERS - Cite Sentence Starters (RACERS) 8b
9a RACERS - Explain Sentence Starters (RACERS) 9b
10a RACERS - React Sentence Starters (RACERS) 10b
11a RACERS - Signify Sentence Starters (RACERS) 11b
12a RACERS - Relate Sentence Starters (RACERS) 12b
13a Reflection / Feedback 13b
14a Planning / Composing Reviewing / Improving 14b
15a Self-editing (part 1) Self-editing (part 2) 15b

These are designed to printed double-sided. I have provided a title card to be stuck on a container, and then two versions of the cards themselves, to be slotted inside. I have used the "back2back colour print" version so that I can print on coloured card and ensure that none of the colours blend into each other, but are clearly distinct. I printed 10 copies of each, laminated and cut them to size so that they can be reused.

Further, I have linked them to the RACERS mnemonic (see my other resources) for deep analysis development.