Get Ready! Soar - PROGRAM SAMPLER

Supporting Students with Disabilities / Working with Video | 8F UNIT 1 Suggestions These support notes are meant to offer general suggestions. They should be considered neither comprehensive nor label-based. As always, a student’s unique needs drive any curricular accommodations and modifications (as delineated in their individual IEP or 504 plans). Visual-spatial processing There is a great deal of visual information for students to process in Unit 1. They may be seeing speech bubbles for the first time in the “Hello and good-bye!” lesson. Have students track their location with a finger as they move from one dialogue to the next. It also may be the first time they experience a Reader’s Theater, and the play within a play. Zoom in or enlarge the images of the character portraits and the illustrations to make the details more visible, and to allow students to match the character portrait with the character in the play and in the illustration. Physical disability Be aware of any student with mobility issues, especially when small groups are asked to act things out or role-play. Memory In Unit 1, assist students with remembering new classmate names, name spellings, and various greetings. A kinesthetic set of letters (e.g., magnetic letters) for spelling activities will also enhance support. Executive functioning Students with organization issues may need assistance navigating tasks. For the Unit 1 writing activity, you may want to have students name each step in the activity and check off when they have completed each step. Create a system with them in which they circle the activity number when they have finished an activity. This will help them to keep their place. Auditory processing Provide extra time for tasks where students listen to audio (e.g., the readings, phonics activities, and so on), and replay the audio multiple times as needed. Video can augment English language development in a variety of ways. There are three videos in Unit 1. Connect to the Theme The Connect to the Theme video introduces students to the language and concepts they will encounter in the unit. After playing the video, offer additional support by replaying it and pausing to highlight vocabulary. You may also wish to pause on a scene and ask students what they see or what is happening. This open-ended questioning may reveal additional vocabulary and syntax students possess. Also, invite students to verbalize their thoughts in their home language and then follow up with English statements about the video to reinforce the language. Get Ready for the Reader’s Theater The Get Ready for the Reader’s Theater video is an engaging piece of video that is designed to motivate students and introduce them to Reader’s Theater. Connect to Media Finally, the Connect to Media video for the unit, “Top 10 Basic ASL Signs” provides students with the opportunity to learn the signs in ASL for many of the words and expressions they have just learned in English. Supporting Students with Disabilities Working with Video