Levels of Support:
Increase the amount of personal assistance with specific learner.
For Example:
- Assist with organization and planning
- Highlight main concepts
- Copy of peer or teacher notes
- Peer/partner tutor
- Supplemental aids (vocabulary, flash cards, manipulatives and visual representations)
- Shortened assignments/tests
- Explain academic vocabulary (e.g. figurative language)
- Provide verbal/physical/visual/gestural/instructional prompts as needed
- Social Stories and instruction (AUT)
- Increase use of positive reinforcement
- Visual (schedules, timers, clocks and behavior) AUT)
- Inform substitute teachers of accommodations and modification or students with special needs
- Tell students in advance when you won’t be in class (if possible or appropriate) AUT
- Provide formulas (math)
- Word-banks
- Cloze structures for tests or classroom instruction
- Bilingual dictionary
- Translation
- Glossary
- Gesture academic vocabulary
- Stacked translations
- Total Physical Response
