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Curricular Adaptations for Children with Special Needs
WRITING
4 square writing
Adaptive paper
Adaptive writing utensils
Alpha Smart
Alphabet beats
Alternating color lined paper
Bing, Bang, Bongo
Block and foam letters
Brainstorming- K(now) W(ant) L(earn)
Breaks
Buddy writer
Business letters
Carbon paper for taking notes
Cartooning with dialogue
Choice of writing materials
Class diary/Individual diary
Classroom suite
Cloze activities
Color code (green-topic; yellow-supporting details; red-conclusion)
Complete my sentence (group work)
Cooperative writing (telephone style)
Covered overlays
Co-writer
Crayons with large ‘bulbs’ for gripping
Daily journal
Daily oral language activities
Dialogue for Cartoons
Dictate to teachers, peer, tape
Dictating to peer or teacher
Dictation
Digital dictionary
Ditto…
Dotted lines and tracing
Dot-to-dot instruction
Draftbuilder
Dragon Naturally Speaking (speech recognition software)
Drawing picture stories
Fill in the blank
Finger paint
Fingerboard
Foldable paper organs
Franklin spellers
Free writing
Give expectations for number of words/sentences
Give fewer, more detail papers
Glitter glue
Glue lines
Graph paper
Graphic organizer
Group generated stories
Guided questions
Hamburger model
Handi-writer
Handwriting without Tears
Highlighting
I Books
Illustrated writing
Individual dry erase boards
Inspiration
Intellikeys
Interactive writing
Job applications
Journals
Kansas learning strategies
Keyboard- computer/typewriter
Kid Pix
Kidspiration
Kurzweil
Label-maker
Lap tops
Large/small pencils
Leapster- Letters on the Loose
Letter and number strip on desk
List writing
Mad Libs
Mapping
Mechanical pencils
Mini dictionary of words they know
Model writing
Modeling
Movements with hands
Never give up
Note taking
Notes on website
Occupational therapy
Outlines
Overhead modeling
Paint in Ziploc bag
Peer editing
Pencil grips, weighted pencils
Personal voice
Photo journal
Pick own topic
Picture prompts
Picture writing
Pix writer software
Play doh
Pocket Chart
Post-It notes
PPT
Predictive text
Pre-teaching
Pre-writing
Priming activities
Printing, not cursive
Progressive writing
Prompting (visual, draw)
Prompts in classroom
Proofreading strategies (capitalization, spelling, punctuation, makes sense)
Puffy paint (tactile learning)
Rainbow writing
Raised line paper
Red-green dots- start to stop
Reduced number of paragraphs
Review of a rough draft
Rite line paper
Rubrics
Scribe
Sensible pencil
Sensory breaks
Sentence starters
Sentence strips
Sequencing activities
Share the pen activity
Shared purpose-meaning of writing
Shortened spelling list
Slanted writing surfaces
Smart board
Smart write
SOLO
Spacemen for word spacing
Spacers
Spell checkers/dictionaries
Squiggle Wiggle Writer…vibrating
Stamps and stamping words
Stencils
Story add-ons (class stories)
Story frame
Story in pictures
Story starters
Story template
Student created centers (parts of speech)
Student made newspaper
Symbol integration
Talk type
Tape paragraph
Tape student reading their written work and listen again
Teach cursive early
Timers
Tracing
Traffic light writing
Triangular shaped pencils
Type on computer rather than writing
Use Carpenters pencils
Use close method “____achary”
Use keyboarding
Use of tape recorder or video taping (no note-taking in the classroom)
Using dry erase boards
Using images as topics
Using manipulative object for spacing
Venn diagrams
Verbalizing and visualizing
Vibrating pen to appeal to sensory needs
Voice activated software
Voice Activated Typing/Writing Made Easy
Webbing
Weighted pencil
Weights-Sensory input
Wikki stix
Word banks
Word prediction programs
Wrist weights- ONLY under OT supervision
Write from cut-out pictures
Write Out Loud
Write story of favorite topic
Writer’s workshop
Writing across the curriculum
Writing in sand
Writing resource center
Writing with symbols
4 square writing
Adaptive paper
Adaptive writing utensils
Alpha Smart
Alphabet beats
Alternating color lined paper
Bing, Bang, Bongo
Block and foam letters
Brainstorming- K(now) W(ant) L(earn)
Breaks
Buddy writer
Business letters
Carbon paper for taking notes
Cartooning with dialogue
Choice of writing materials
Class diary/Individual diary
Classroom suite
Cloze activities
Color code (green-topic; yellow-supporting details; red-conclusion)
Complete my sentence (group work)
Cooperative writing (telephone style)
Covered overlays
Co-writer
Crayons with large ‘bulbs’ for gripping
Daily journal
Daily oral language activities
Dialogue for Cartoons
Dictate to teachers, peer, tape
Dictating to peer or teacher
Dictation
Digital dictionary
Ditto…
Dotted lines and tracing
Dot-to-dot instruction
Draftbuilder
Dragon Naturally Speaking (speech recognition software)
Drawing picture stories
Fill in the blank
Finger paint
Fingerboard
Foldable paper organs
Franklin spellers
Free writing
Give expectations for number of words/sentences
Give fewer, more detail papers
Glitter glue
Glue lines
Graph paper
Graphic organizer
Group generated stories
Guided questions
Hamburger model
Handi-writer
Handwriting without Tears
Highlighting
I Books
Illustrated writing
Individual dry erase boards
Inspiration
Intellikeys
Interactive writing
Job applications
Journals
Kansas learning strategies
Keyboard- computer/typewriter
Kid Pix
Kidspiration
Kurzweil
Label-maker
Lap tops
Large/small pencils
Leapster- Letters on the Loose
Letter and number strip on desk
List writing
Mad Libs
Mapping
Mechanical pencils
Mini dictionary of words they know
Model writing
Modeling
Movements with hands
Never give up
Note taking
Notes on website
Occupational therapy
Outlines
Overhead modeling
Paint in Ziploc bag
Peer editing
Pencil grips, weighted pencils
Personal voice
Photo journal
Pick own topic
Picture prompts
Picture writing
Pix writer software
Play doh
Pocket Chart
Post-It notes
PPT
Predictive text
Pre-teaching
Pre-writing
Priming activities
Printing, not cursive
Progressive writing
Prompting (visual, draw)
Prompts in classroom
Proofreading strategies (capitalization, spelling, punctuation, makes sense)
Puffy paint (tactile learning)
Rainbow writing
Raised line paper
Red-green dots- start to stop
Reduced number of paragraphs
Review of a rough draft
Rite line paper
Rubrics
Scribe
Sensible pencil
Sensory breaks
Sentence starters
Sentence strips
Sequencing activities
Share the pen activity
Shared purpose-meaning of writing
Shortened spelling list
Slanted writing surfaces
Smart board
Smart write
SOLO
Spacemen for word spacing
Spacers
Spell checkers/dictionaries
Squiggle Wiggle Writer…vibrating
Stamps and stamping words
Stencils
Story add-ons (class stories)
Story frame
Story in pictures
Story starters
Story template
Student created centers (parts of speech)
Student made newspaper
Symbol integration
Talk type
Tape paragraph
Tape student reading their written work and listen again
Teach cursive early
Timers
Tracing
Traffic light writing
Triangular shaped pencils
Type on computer rather than writing
Use Carpenters pencils
Use close method “____achary”
Use keyboarding
Use of tape recorder or video taping (no note-taking in the classroom)
Using dry erase boards
Using images as topics
Using manipulative object for spacing
Venn diagrams
Verbalizing and visualizing
Vibrating pen to appeal to sensory needs
Voice activated software
Voice Activated Typing/Writing Made Easy
Webbing
Weighted pencil
Weights-Sensory input
Wikki stix
Word banks
Word prediction programs
Wrist weights- ONLY under OT supervision
Write from cut-out pictures
Write Out Loud
Write story of favorite topic
Writer’s workshop
Writing across the curriculum
Writing in sand
Writing resource center
Writing with symbols
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