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Differentiating Instruction
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How can you make accommodations for students
with special needs in basic skills instruction
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Teaching pre-skills
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Basic skills necessary for performing more
complex skills. Assess students on the relevant pre-skills and, if necessary,
teach them.
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Selecting and sequencing examples
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Deciding the Rate of Introduction of New skills
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Providing direct instruction and opportunities
for Practice and Review
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How can you make accommodations for students
with special needs when teaching subject area content?
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Activating background knowledge
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Using the Prep strategy
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Preview the text or lesson and choose two or
three important concepts
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Conduct a brainstorming session with students
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Evaluate student responses to determine the
depth of their prior knowledge of the topic
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Preparing anticipation guides
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A series of statements, some of which may not be
true, related to the material that students are about to read.
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Providing planning think sheets
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Help writers focus on background info as well as
on the audience and purpose of a paper
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Organizing content
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Using advance organizers
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Info presented verbally and or visually that
makes content more understandable by putting it within a more general framework
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Employing cue words for organizational patterns
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Descriptive list including the sequence of
events in time
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Constructing study guides
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Outlines, abstracts, or questions
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Creating graphic organizers
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Visual format to organize their thoughts while
looking for main ideas
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Teaching terms and concepts
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Using definitions
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Positive and negative examples
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Making concept diagrams
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This combines graphic organizers with the
methods just described using definitions
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Communicating clearly
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Communicating clearly in writing
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Communicating clearly orally
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State commands specifically using concrete
terms.
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Give “bite-size” directions
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Accompany explanations with a demonstration
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Use cuing words such as “look up here” or “Listen,
please” before giving directions.
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Phrase questions clearly to ensure that students
know how to respond
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Provide a balance between higher and lower level
questions
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Adapt questions to the language and skill level
of the class, including differentiating your questions for individual students
in the class
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Vary the wait time depending on the nature of
the questions asked
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Involve all students in classroom questioning by
calling on nonvolunteers as well as volunteers
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Scaffold incorrect answers and no responses
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What accommodations can you make for students to
help them succeed in independent practice
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Differentiating seatwork assignments
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Verbally present the tasks
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Add practice examples that you can do with the whole
class
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Write alternative sets of directions
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Highlight the important words in the directions
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Have students help each other when the
directions are difficult.
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Differentiating homework assignments
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How can you involve parents in teaching their
children?
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How can you make instructional modifications for
students with moderate to severe intellectual disabilities?
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