Middle School English Language Arts Instructional Guide

Accommodations vs. Modifications

Accommodation

Modification

●​ Visual cues ●​ Audio books ●​ Close-captions on videos ●​ Access to exemplars ●​ Peer modeling ●​ Precision partnering ●​ Books and materials with large print ●​ Pre-teaching skills ●​ Speech-to-text software ●​ Orally dictate responses (scribe or digital recorder) ●​ Sentence frames for paragraph writing ●​ Oral response in lieu of written ●​ Preferential seating ●​ Testing in a separate location ●​ Extended time to complete a task ●​ Frequent breaks ●​ Shorter testing sessions ●​ Chunking task/assignments ●​ Reduction of options on multiple choice problems (out of two rather than four)

●​ Alternate assignment ●​ Lower-level text ●​ Fewer homework questions ●​ Shorter Report ●​ Accountable to alternate academic language (class discussion v collegial discussion) ●​ Complete an alternate homework assignment ●​ Different test questions ●​ Different material ●​ Allowing outlining instead of writing essays ●​ Modified grades based on the goals

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