What term means providing curriculum for students based on their individual needs, including learning styles and level?

• A. Differentiation
• B. Listening guides
• C. WIDA
• D. Utterances

Answer: (A)

Differentiation is the approach of tailoring curriculum and instruction to each student’s individual needs, including their language proficiency, readiness level, and learning preferences. In practice, this means adjusting what is taught (the content), how it’s taught (the process), and how students show what they’ve learned (the product) so everyone can access the material and make progress. For ESOL learners, differentiation might involve using simpler texts with vocabulary supports for some students while offering more complex materials or alternative ways to demonstrate understanding for others, all within the same lesson or unit. This keeps the learning accessible while still challenging each student appropriately.

Listening guides are tools to support listening activities, WIDA is a standards framework for English language development, and utterances are spoken phrases. They relate to language learning in different ways but do not describe the practice of tailoring curriculum to individual students’ needs.