Middle School English Language Arts Instructional Guide

Accommodations vs. Modifcations

Accommodation

Modifcation

● 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 ● Modifed grades based on the goals

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Last Updated June, 2023 Middle School ELA, Page 9