BHS 9th Grade ELA

Canyons School District

Special Education Department

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 colleagial 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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