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Differentiate your instruction through five easy steps that will not cause you much more work. The first thing you need to do is give pretests. If you do that, you will know exactly what areas need to be taught for each individual child. This also gives you the luxury of creating smaller groups. You will immmediately know what areas each child needs to be taught so you can direct instruction right at their individual needs before starting a chapter. If your children do well on the pretests, create some extended activities to keep your higher children learning.Additional information can be found at http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2011/10/03/confusion-aids-learning-good-news-for-biased-search-results/. The children that do very well will be able to handle more independent instruction, and this allows you to put more time into the students that need more work. The extended activities for your higher learners will also help them to build the skills and knowledge that is necessary at the next level of instruction. The second thing you can do is some ability grouping. That term is not favored much anymore but putting children into groups with common needs better allows you to teach them all individually. Differentiating instruction can also be done with some great websites. There are many websites that differentiate by standards, so tell the children what standard you want them working on and they will have direct access to the instruction. The fourth thing you need to really do is tell the parents what your philosophy is and let them know that they need to work on whatever they can that you send home. If they know it is specific for your child then more will get done. The final thing you need to do is find reading levels, and give students books at their individual levels every day. Reading on level is so important in building knowledge.