1. Accommodations and Modifications for Instructional Success Sara Newton Learning Specialist Special Education Horry County Schools

2. Backwards Design Planning Accommodations/ Modifications Instruction/ Assessment PACT

3. INCLUDE Identify classroom needs Note student weaknesses Check potential areas of student success Look for potential problem areas Use information to brainstorm adaptations Decide which accommodations to implement Evaluate student progress

4. ACCOMMODATIONS “A change in the testing environment, procedures, or presentation that does not alter what the test measures.”

5. ACCOMMODATIONS SETTINGTIMINGSCHEDULERESPONSE TACTILE DEVICES SPELLING ORAL TEST PRESEN- TATION

6. SETTING SMALL GROUP INDIVIDUAL PREFERENTIAL SEATING SEPARATE LOCATION

7. TIMING FREQUENT BREAKS LUNCH AT A DIFFERENT TIME (SILENT)

8. SCHEDULE TIME OF DAY SECTIONED OVER TIME

9. RESPONSE BOLD-LINED PAPER TYPED RESPONSES SCRIBE REPEATED DIRECTIONS

10. PRESENTATION HIGHLIGHTING FOR STUDENTS STUDENT HIGHLIGHTS WRITE CUES COLOR OVERLAYS STUDENT SUBVOCALIZES TYPING RESPONSES DICTATED RESPONSES

11. SPELLING FRANKLIN SPELLER SPELLING DICTIONARY

12. ORAL TESTING TAPE RECORDED DURING INSTRUCTIONAL YEAR TEST READER FOR MATH SCIENCE SOCIAL STUDIES

13. MANIPULATIVES TACTILE DEVICES USED IN MATH INSTRUCTION

14. HIGHLIGHTING

15. WHY? ELA MATH

16. SPELLING DICTIONARY

17. MODIFICATIONS “A change in testing environment, procedures, or presentation that alters what the test measures.”

18. MODIFICATIONS ALTERNATIVE SCORING Different rubric EXTENDED WRITING Word processor ORAL ADMINISTRATION ELA ONLY MATHEMATICS NUMBER LINE GEOMETRY SHAPES

19. ALTERNATIVE SCORING DIFFERENT RUBRIC

20. EXTENDED WRITING WORD PROCESSOR

21. ORAL ADMINISTRATION ELA

22. CALCULATOR

23. NUMBER LINE

24. GEOMETRIC SHAPES

25. RECORD KEEPING It helps to keep a matrix of accommodations and modifications for all learners.

26. SAMPLE LESSON USING ACCOMMODATIONS AND MODIFICATIONS

27. Scribe one paragraph. Use alternative scoring rubric. Respond to prompt by writing 3 paragraphs and using spelling dictionary. Write to a prompt with 5 paragraph length.

28. BIBLIOGRAPHY Wald, Penny and Boehm, Wendy, Practical Co-Teaching Strategies. www.ber.orgwww.ber.org Friend, Marilyn and Bursuck, William, Including Students with Special Needs. ISBN 0-205-33192-0 Beninghof, Anne, SenseABLE Strategies. Sopris West. PACT and HSAP manuals, Appendix C, 2004.