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Curricular Adaptations for Children with Special Needs
READING / LITERACY
6 Traits writing
Accelerated reader
Acting, role playing
Adaptive books
Adaptive computer programs
Adjusted reading levels
Adult volunteers to read with them
Allow child to read topic of special interest
Allow to choose books
Alpha Smart
Alternating sentence/paragraph format
Amber sunglasses for lighting difficulties
Anticipatory set/pre-reading strategies
Art projects related to the materials
Balance Literacy
BIG books
Boardmaker
Books on tape, CD, or computer
Booktalk/Literature circles
Carl’s corner
Certain color paper
Charting
Choral reading
Class books
Cliff notes
Cloze
Color overlays
Comic strip summaries
Computer assisted instruction- Kurzweil
Condensing text
Covering part of page
Cut-up sentence strips
DEAR
Destination success
DIBELS Activities
Direct instruction
Don Johnson software
Dr. Jean – using music with familiar songs/books
Driver’s Ed.
E.A.R.L.. D.E.A.R., D.I.R.T., D.O.L.
Earobics
Easy read novels with controlled vocabulary
Edmark
EZC Reader
Fast forward reading online program
Flannel board
Flash cards
Fluency builders
Foldables
Frequent pauses for comprehension
Frontload with author info
Graduated page edges to facilitate page turning
Graphic novel
Graphic organizers
Guided reading
High interest
Highlighter, drawing story, telling
Highlighting key concepts
Hooked on Phonics
Incorporating sensory (sand writing, shaving cream)
Increasing background knowledge
Interactive CD
Internet
Inventive spelling
Job Application/Postings
Jolly Phonics
Kinesthetic (Project Read)
KWL’s
Language experience story
Language Master
Leap pads
Leapfrog
Letter tiles-magnetic letters, tactile letters
Leveled reading
Lexia reading program
Library trips, pick own books
LIPS-decoding
Living books
Magnetic letters
Make own newspaper
Making words
Modified stories
Move and sit cushion
Music/Lyric writing integration
News2You.com
Newspaper
Nursery rhymes
Oral reading
Oral storytelling with retelling
Orton Gillingham Program
Paired reading
Peer reading/partner reading
Pen pals
Phonemic awareness
Phonics
Picture It
Picture sequencing
Plays
Popcorn
Post-it-notes
Priming activities
Progress monitoring-Word Count
Pseudo words
Public library use
Puppets
Read 180
Read at Day Cares or Senior Centers
Read Naturally
Read out loud
Read to dog
Reader rabbit DVD
Readers Theater
Reading clubs
Reading daily newspaper
Reading experience stories
Reading Mastery - SRA
Reading Milestones
Reading strategies, make connections, ask questions
Reading to younger kids
Reading tutors
Reading workshop
ReadingA-Z.com
ReadingRockets.com
Rebus stories
Reciprocal teaching
Record self reading and listen to self
Repeated reading of same material
Repetitive books
Rephrase, change evaluation questions ( T/F to M/C or M/C to T/F )
Rewards – decoding
Rhyming games
Rigby series
Role play
Selecting books with popular characters
Sequencing activities
Shared reading
SIO
Slant boards
Sonday System
Sound sheets
SRA
Stamps, markers, etc.
Starfall.com
Start-to-finish books
Stories containing the child
Story cubes for choice
Story mapping
Story prompts
Story starters
Story telling puppets
Structured repeated reading
Student dictated books
Students choose reading materials- based on interest/reading ability
Summer reading incentives
Supplementary materials with common topic
Teacher-made adapted book with built-in activity per page
Teaching idioms, summarizing, and predicting
Trivial fact sheet
Use manipulatives- reading rods, pocket chart
Use of switch
Value tales
Visual reading program- multi-sensory
Visualization
Vocab/Spelling words in shaving cream, gel paint, sponge letters, stamp letters
Voyager-journeys Program
V-Tech Interactive T. V.
Waterford program
Weekly Reader
“Wh” question picture cards
Whisper phones with PVC pipe
Wilson Reading Program
Word and picture relations
Word bank
Word families
Workmaker
Writing their own autobiography
Writing with symbols
Writing Without Tears
6 Traits writing
Accelerated reader
Acting, role playing
Adaptive books
Adaptive computer programs
Adjusted reading levels
Adult volunteers to read with them
Allow child to read topic of special interest
Allow to choose books
Alpha Smart
Alternating sentence/paragraph format
Amber sunglasses for lighting difficulties
Anticipatory set/pre-reading strategies
Art projects related to the materials
Balance Literacy
BIG books
Boardmaker
Books on tape, CD, or computer
Booktalk/Literature circles
Carl’s corner
Certain color paper
Charting
Choral reading
Class books
Cliff notes
Cloze
Color overlays
Comic strip summaries
Computer assisted instruction- Kurzweil
Condensing text
Covering part of page
Cut-up sentence strips
DEAR
Destination success
DIBELS Activities
Direct instruction
Don Johnson software
Dr. Jean – using music with familiar songs/books
Driver’s Ed.
E.A.R.L.. D.E.A.R., D.I.R.T., D.O.L.
Earobics
Easy read novels with controlled vocabulary
Edmark
EZC Reader
Fast forward reading online program
Flannel board
Flash cards
Fluency builders
Foldables
Frequent pauses for comprehension
Frontload with author info
Graduated page edges to facilitate page turning
Graphic novel
Graphic organizers
Guided reading
High interest
Highlighter, drawing story, telling
Highlighting key concepts
Hooked on Phonics
Incorporating sensory (sand writing, shaving cream)
Increasing background knowledge
Interactive CD
Internet
Inventive spelling
Job Application/Postings
Jolly Phonics
Kinesthetic (Project Read)
KWL’s
Language experience story
Language Master
Leap pads
Leapfrog
Letter tiles-magnetic letters, tactile letters
Leveled reading
Lexia reading program
Library trips, pick own books
LIPS-decoding
Living books
Magnetic letters
Make own newspaper
Making words
Modified stories
Move and sit cushion
Music/Lyric writing integration
News2You.com
Newspaper
Nursery rhymes
Oral reading
Oral storytelling with retelling
Orton Gillingham Program
Paired reading
Peer reading/partner reading
Pen pals
Phonemic awareness
Phonics
Picture It
Picture sequencing
Plays
Popcorn
Post-it-notes
Priming activities
Progress monitoring-Word Count
Pseudo words
Public library use
Puppets
Read 180
Read at Day Cares or Senior Centers
Read Naturally
Read out loud
Read to dog
Reader rabbit DVD
Readers Theater
Reading clubs
Reading daily newspaper
Reading experience stories
Reading Mastery - SRA
Reading Milestones
Reading strategies, make connections, ask questions
Reading to younger kids
Reading tutors
Reading workshop
ReadingA-Z.com
ReadingRockets.com
Rebus stories
Reciprocal teaching
Record self reading and listen to self
Repeated reading of same material
Repetitive books
Rephrase, change evaluation questions ( T/F to M/C or M/C to T/F )
Rewards – decoding
Rhyming games
Rigby series
Role play
Selecting books with popular characters
Sequencing activities
Shared reading
SIO
Slant boards
Sonday System
Sound sheets
SRA
Stamps, markers, etc.
Starfall.com
Start-to-finish books
Stories containing the child
Story cubes for choice
Story mapping
Story prompts
Story starters
Story telling puppets
Structured repeated reading
Student dictated books
Students choose reading materials- based on interest/reading ability
Summer reading incentives
Supplementary materials with common topic
Teacher-made adapted book with built-in activity per page
Teaching idioms, summarizing, and predicting
Trivial fact sheet
Use manipulatives- reading rods, pocket chart
Use of switch
Value tales
Visual reading program- multi-sensory
Visualization
Vocab/Spelling words in shaving cream, gel paint, sponge letters, stamp letters
Voyager-journeys Program
V-Tech Interactive T. V.
Waterford program
Weekly Reader
“Wh” question picture cards
Whisper phones with PVC pipe
Wilson Reading Program
Word and picture relations
Word bank
Word families
Workmaker
Writing their own autobiography
Writing with symbols
Writing Without Tears
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