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William P. Bintz – Current Issues in Middle Level Education, 2025
This article describes an unexpected playground experience that occurred between the author, a reading educator and former middle grades teacher, and his six-year-old granddaughter. The experience became the inspiration and impetus to provide an introduction to, and a rationale for, the concept of text clusters to middle grades teachers. The…
Descriptors: Cluster Grouping, Books, Reading Materials, Reading Instruction
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Morret, Tanya H.; Machado, Crystal H. – AASA Journal of Scholarship & Practice, 2017
Given the wide range of ability (academic, linguistic and cultural) in classrooms differentiated instruction is often difficult to manage. District and building level leadership can play an important role by providing the vision and support needed to implement Whole School Cluster Grouping (WSCG), the innovative scheduling approach described in…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Cluster Grouping, Individualized Instruction, Scheduling