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Instructional Modifications
1. Shorten assignments, tests
2. Oral administration of test, taped tests
3. Provide highlighted texts, tests
4. Use visual cues to accompany oral directions
5. Provide advanced organizers-webbing, outlining,
graphing
6. Extend time for completion of assignments, projects
7. Provide study sheets
8. Use assignment notebooks
9. Provide repeated reviews and drills-vary teaching
strategy
10. Teach in small cooperative groups
11. Reduce paper/pencil tasks
12. Provide manipulatives
13. Seat in close proximity to teacher
14. Encourage student to underline key words or facts
15. Use language experience activities
16. Allow students to express key concepts in their own
words
17. Provide time and place for assistance with school
projects
18. Directly teach vocabulary used on tests
19. Audiotape lectures
20. Peer tutoring
21. Shorten length of tasks
22. Provide clarification in primary language (if possible)
23. Allow translations by peers for clarification
24. Monitor for individual student comprehension
25. Simplify language and adjust rate of speech when
needed
26. Frequently monitor for comprehension
27. Other recommended interventions.
Check Modification
Comments
incorrect answer, and the teacher is always very nice and comforting around him and all
of the other students.
6. The comfort level for the ELL student with the English language seems to be pretty solid.
He knows plenty of words, and he rarely says something like I dont know how to say
this. Ive had plenty of conversations with him and he can carry a conversation along
quite well. Verbally he is truly comfortable, but I would say the level is somewhat lower
when it comes to read and writing. He needs a lot of help and asks many questions when
it comes to reading, but he is still able to read a decent amount of words. He depends on
his teacher and I to help him out, but it isnt at a point where he cant do anything without
us.
7. I asked about what types of accommodations they have come up with for the ELL
student, and they all seem to be pretty evident. The teacher likes to use visual cues and
present the material to him orally because that is the most productive in his case. She will
shorten the length of the tasks that he is asked to complete, and she also directly teaches
the key vocabulary terms that he will see on the quizzes and assessments. There are
definitely more things that can be done for the student in the classroom, and the teacher is
aware of that. She does as much as she can manage to accommodate for him, and he is
developing at a decent rate.