What are your best practices for designing lessons that meet diverse student needs?

I try to connect content to the real world. Today, we were talking about earthquakes, and I related to Hurricane Helene. In math, provide support for students who have not memorized their multiplication facts. Show how they can build a list of multiples to solve the problem. Stop when you are reading a text and have students talk to a partner to check for comprehension. When you are creating your lesson plans, make sure that the activities are varied.

What other ideas can you share to meet these student needs?

How would you plan a lesson for a standard about identifying the differences in the perspectives of characters? Do you have any good texts to help me teach that topic?