The kids at DS's preschool were doing some kind of activity where they were cutting up a paper and matching and gluing numbers to 20 onto the correct spots. I was filling out some paperwork, so I was there as the teacher greeted each child and was giving each one a careful explanation of what they were to do ("Okay, you're going to cut each of those out, then you're going to match it to the number, then you're going to...") When she got to my DS, she simply said, "Okay, the instructions are on the whiteboard." DS looked up at the whiteboard and began cutting.
Isn't that interesting? I don't know of any other children in the class who are reading, although there could be a couple. Is this a clever differentiation method, do you think? I don't know why she would put the instructions on the whiteboard otherwise, unless it's just sort of a general literacy thing.
