Guideline 1: Options for Representation

Options for perception: analogy: ipad/tablet

·  tablet

·  book on tape

·  smart board

·  anchor charts

·  manipulatives

·  graphic organizers

·  provide visual, auditory, and written instructions for all activities

·  listening center

·  vocabulary visuals

·  picture schedule

·  discovery Ed, Brain Pop

·  songs

·  pictures

·  font size and shapes

·  color coding

·  white boards

Options for language: analogy: use the ‘Brita filter” to clear up and clarify!

·  Read alouds (ie: Trumpet of Swan)

·  Vocabulary through art & images

·  Vocabulary slides

·  Underline key words

·  CUBES

·  Vocabulary

·  Synonyms

·  Posters

·  Word walls for different content areas

·  Pictures for new vocabulary

·  Project read symbols ___^^^^. (noun + predicate) ^______. (sentence frame)

·  Pictures in text

·  Use vocabulary in everyday life: ‘caught you’ contest

·  Amanda’s rigorous vocabulary notebook

·  Anchor charts with interesting visuals and fonts

·  Charades: act out word or emotion

·  Lively letters

·  Partner student with language-alike or language-different

Options for comprehension: analogy: chain links: they build together to make a strong fence

·  KWL chart

·  What I know, What I think I know, What I want to know

·  Graphic organizers

·  Use visuals

·  Reciprocal teaching

·  Answer key routine

·  Note plans

·  Reading stick

·  Pictures, videos

·  Brainstorm to activate prior knowledge

·  Do activity, show movie to explain before instruction to build background

·  Hands on, visual activity relating to specific skills

·  Text to text connection

·  Discussion, pair share

·  Picture walks

·  Make predictions

·  See-think-wonder

·  Bullet or number directions

Principle 2: Options for Action and Expression

Options for physical action: analogy: pogo stick

·  Red/green color cards

·  Spelling options (jumping jacks, use body, sand, chalk)

·  Lap tops, ipads

·  Hush ups

·  Use body to make letters

·  Centers

·  Brain breaks

·  Non verbal gestures

·  2 claps if correct, 1 clap if wrong

·  Hands on head

·  Rearranging words in sentences

·  Deskercise

·  Wipe boards

·  Demonstrate concepts using their bodies as models

·  Moving seats by category

·  ABC Olympics

Options for expression: analogy: ladder to represent graduated levels (steps)

·  Use music

·  Use art: draw, paint, playdough

·  Flashcards

·  Typing

·  Power points

·  Video

·  Choice for projects: writing, gameboard

·  xtraMath

·  Fast Math

·  Enrichment programs

·  Clock buddies

·  Elbow buddies

·  Turn and talk

·  Plastic containers of many size to show geography

·  Math notebook

·  Manipulatives

·  Achieve 3000 (audio/text) differentiated

·  Listening Center: audio/test

·  EnVision: video/text, math

·  iPad

·  fresh reads

·  DARE time

·  Repetition

·  Success Maker, Lexia

·  Footsteps to Brilliance

Options for executive functions: analogy: coach/player relationships: make a play-score-goal

·  ANSWER key routine

·  Steps to success

·  Reflections on work

·  Set reasonable goals as individuals/groups

·  Reading stick

·  Structured note taking

·  A-book

·  Different folders for subjects

·  Sharing data

·  Agenda book

·  Highlighters

·  Criteria for Success

·  Rubrics

·  Checklist

·  Math Journal with explanations, drawings, and self reflection

Principle 3: Options for Engagement

Options for Recruiting interest: analogy: a menu at a restaurant!

·  Relate to real life

·  Use essential questions

·  ELA gameboard

·  Students choose

·  ELA activities

·  Have flexible time

·  Performance tasks

·  Tic Tac Toe boards

·  Choice centers

·  Spelling homework: choice

·  Open circle

·  Achieve 3000

·  Sharing different ways to solve a problem

·  Independent reading bags: leveled choices

·  Project choice: offering a variety of projects and ways to display and present information

·  Pick own reading book

Options for Effort and persistence: analogy: babies learning to walk, they fall but get back up and try again

·  Open circle

·  Group work

·  PBL

·  Self evaluation

·  Class contests: Achieve

·  Work in pairs, share out together

·  Conferences with students and parents

·  Review questions they’ve gotten wrong and resolve it

·  Offering opportunities for students to re-take assessments (mastery is the goal)

·  Peer tutoring

·  Celebrate mistakes

·  Resilience

Options for self-regulation: analogy: mirror on the open circle

·  Track student progress (individually or public)

·  Lexia, Achieve, Xtra Math

·  Calm breathing

·  Positive self talk

·  Open circle

·  Count to 10

·  Visual or verbal cues

·  A Books

·  Achieve

·  Visual checklist

·  Teach multiple strategies and allow student to choose

·  Goal setting

·  Graph progress

·  Rubrics

·  Classroom rules

·  “Break spot” in class

·  Time to reflect