Hall, Melanie
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ESOL Accommodations
Classroom Accommodations: To succeed in the classroom, ESL students need access to appropriate supports, including:
- Allow extra time on tests
- Provide a quiet space to work
- Explicitly teach language objectives.
- Simplify the language used in instruction
- Give additional instruction including reviews, drills
- Use manipulatives to enhance concepts depending on the language level of learner
- Provide visual aids to enhance key concepts
- Provide for alternate seating for proximity to peer helper or teacher as necessary
- Assist the student in building a picture file of key vocabulary
- Assist students in underlining keywords or important facts in the text
- Use prompts, photocopies of notes or outlines, or highlighted texts and materials
- Utilize resources in the student’s first language
- Teach new concepts in chunks
- Provide frequent checks for comprehension
- Orient students to expectations through rubrics
- Provide simplified/additional instructions
- Allow editing and revision before grading
- Distribute a daily or weekly syllabus of class and homework tasks
- Give alternative homework or classwork assignments suitable to the student’s linguistic ability for activities and assessments
- Extend time for assignment completion as necessary
- Give students an opportunity to express key concepts in their own words
- Allow alternate reading assignments/materials at the student’s reading level
- Utilize resources in the student’s first language
- Substitute a hands-on activity for a written activity
- Utilize assignment notebooks
- Simplify language or shorten assignments
- Provide a word bank
- Allow the student to take the test/re-test individually with a teacher or paraprofessional
- Read the text aloud
- Allow for small group administration of assessments
- Utilize informal observations of performance and classroom participation as a percentage of the overall evaluation (see rubric).
- Incorporate group work into the assessment process
- Simplify the language and organization of the assessment
- Give opportunities for the student to take tests in sections/chunks
- Allow for an extended time to complete the assessment
- Provide the opportunity for a student to provide oral responses to be recorded by the teacher or paraprofessional
- Allow editing and revision before grading
- Design projects and assessments for the student that requires a reduced sentence or paragraph composition
- Use rubrics as an assessment tool in place of textbook tests
At Home Accommodations: Parents can support the work that is being done at school, by providing their children with the following at-home accommodations.
- Play language development games
- Learn the new language alongside your child
- Provide a quiet place to study
- Help with homework
- Be understanding