Making Making Adaptations Adaptations Across All Across All Curricular Curricular

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What do you think What do you think adaptations are?adaptations are?

Adaptations are:Adaptations are:

Changes we can make to an Changes we can make to an assignment or assessment to help assignment or assessment to help children be more successful but children be more successful but keeping the keeping the assignment/assessment assignment/assessment RIGOROUS!RIGOROUS!

After today’s session you will go After today’s session you will go away with the knowledge on how away with the knowledge on how to make the following to make the following adaptations to your assignments adaptations to your assignments or assessments:or assessments: SpacingSpacing Process GuidesProcess Guides ChunkingChunking Cloze ProceduresCloze Procedures Reading adaptationsReading adaptations Instructions (bulleting, checks, Instructions (bulleting, checks,

reduce wording of instructions)reduce wording of instructions) Reduce # of problemsReduce # of problems

SPACINGSPACING

Adding lots of space throughout Adding lots of space throughout an assignment/assessment will an assignment/assessment will help special needs students get help special needs students get less confused.less confused.

It will help students focus just on It will help students focus just on what you want them to focus on.what you want them to focus on.

Process GuidesProcess Guides

These are step by step directions or These are step by step directions or lists of what a child is expected to lists of what a child is expected to do so he/she can check off he steps do so he/she can check off he steps after he/she completes on at a time.after he/she completes on at a time.

This helps students understand This helps students understand exactly what they are expected to exactly what they are expected to do.do.

This also helps students focus on the This also helps students focus on the important parts of the assignments important parts of the assignments especially larger assignments.especially larger assignments.

CHUNKINGCHUNKING

Chunking is a way to place Chunking is a way to place important information in a important information in a specific place for children to just specific place for children to just focus on just the important focus on just the important information.information.

CLOZE CLOZE PROCEDUREPROCEDURE

This procedure is when a teacher takes This procedure is when a teacher takes words out of a paragraph and requires a words out of a paragraph and requires a student to fill in the words that are student to fill in the words that are missing.missing.

Students can be given choices for the Students can be given choices for the missing words or they can be required to missing words or they can be required to just fill in the words from a reading just fill in the words from a reading selection or a movie just watched. selection or a movie just watched.

This can also be used to take notes in This can also be used to take notes in sentences as well. It will help to keep sentences as well. It will help to keep students paying attention and on task.students paying attention and on task.

READING READING ADAPTATIONSADAPTATIONS

This is when you give a child reading This is when you give a child reading material within their reading ability material within their reading ability on the same topic the other children on the same topic the other children are expected to be reading. are expected to be reading.

It is ok to have more than one It is ok to have more than one reading selection in the classroom, reading selection in the classroom, but expect them to gain the same but expect them to gain the same overall material.overall material.

INSTRUCTIONSINSTRUCTIONS

Ways to adapt instructions to help Ways to adapt instructions to help students focus on what you really students focus on what you really want them to know (bulleting, want them to know (bulleting, checks, reduce wording of checks, reduce wording of instructions)instructions)

REDUCE # OF REDUCE # OF PROBLEMSPROBLEMS

This helps students to focus on just This helps students to focus on just the problems necessary to determine the problems necessary to determine their knowledge in the subject area. their knowledge in the subject area. Make sure to place at least one Make sure to place at least one problem you plan on assessing.problem you plan on assessing.

Students do not need to do 5 Students do not need to do 5 problems of the same kind to show problems of the same kind to show the teacher they understand the the teacher they understand the concept.concept.

Questions?Questions? Remember if you need further Remember if you need further

assistance to make any of these assistance to make any of these adaptations please contact your adaptations please contact your special education case manager special education case manager so they can help you to adapt the so they can help you to adapt the materials to meet the needs of materials to meet the needs of each specific student.each specific student.