Accommodations & Modifications

What is a modification?

• Allowing the student to sit in the front of the classroom.

• A change in what is being taught or expected from the student.

• Going to the nurse often when sick.

• All of the above.

Modifications may involve either raising or lowering grade level expectations

• True

• False

What is an accommodation?

• Large Print Books

• Extra Time

• Oral Administration

• All of the above

Accommodations alter the learning expectations for the grade level.

• True

• False

A student will have test questions read when requested.

• Modification

• Accommodation

A student is reading below grade level. When required to read grade-level texts independently, the student will have the audio of the text available on an iPad.

• Modification

• Accommodation

In ELAR, a student will have shorter writing assignments. The student must write an introductory paragraph, while the rest of the class will write beginning, middle, and ending paragraphs.

• Modification

• Accommodation

An 8th-grade student's work is assessed according to expectations found on the 6th-grade curriculum. This is an example of...

• Modification

• Accommodation

A change in what is taught to or expected from a student is called...

• Modification

• Accommodation

An Accommodation would be changing the expectations and standards by which these students were assessed.

• True

• False