Welcome (or welcome back)! Here are this week’s free lesson offerings:
Free Adapted Literature Selection: A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner
This retelling of William Faulkner’s Роза для Эмили reads at an automated readability index of grade 5/6. This text aligns to the version in Holt’s Elements of Literature: Fifth Course.
Классическая литература не должна быть страшно, скучный, или слишком сложно.
Сайты со сводками в Интернете и эти маленькие желто-черные тетради больше не являются вашим единственным выбором для учащихся, которые испытывают трудности.. Universally designed texts preserve the storytelling…убирая запутанный выбор слов и сложное форматирование.
Universally Designed texts take classic literature common to secondary ELA classrooms and rewrite them with words and style that are easier for ALL students to read. Меньше разочарованных детей. Меньше голов на столе. Меньше отказов. Меньше разыгрывания. Больше вовлеченности. Больше уверенности. Лучшее понимание.
Your purchase includes three variations on this easier-to-read text that you may print for students or share digitally on the non-public platform of your choice. Варианты включают:
- Текстовая копия
- Текстовая копия с пробелом, колонка с линиями на каждой странице для индивидуальных или открытых заметок учителя
- Текстовая копия с линейным столбцом и вопросами на основе вывода на каждой странице для управляемого ведения заметок
All copies are formatted with the needs of neurodiverse learners in mind and include:
- Текст в столбцах на странице, чтобы уменьшить необходимость в долгом возврате взгляда в конце строки.
- Sans-serif fonts that are dyslexia friendly
- Adequate spacing between lines to prevent line-jumbling and to allow for use of tracking accommodation device
- Дополнительный интервал между каждым абзацем, чтобы помочь определить переходы в тексте.…И снова найти свое место после остановки!
- Согласованное форматирование, которое соответствует другим текстам универсального дизайна.. Студентам не придется изучать новый формат каждый раз, когда они читают новый текст.
- Привлекательная обложка, которая побуждает визуальных учеников захотеть читать и дает концептуальные подсказки о тексте
- Iconic lines quoted directly from the parent text are highlighted
PLEASE NOTE! These are secondary level texts. Although the Lexile difficulty has been reduced, adult themes and adult language (in some texts) have been preserved. Texts may not be appropriate for younger learners.
Free SECD Lesson: Sensory Grounding BINGO
*This lesson was designed to use inside of a school building to practice sensory grounding, but it would be simple to adapt for use at home. If ever there were a time students needed some deescalation coping strategies, this would be it.
5-4-3-2-1 Sensory Grounding is a great tool for self-regulating during times of stress or dysregulation. тем не мение, many younger or intellectually disabled students find it difficult to remember all the steps. Others find that some senses (particularly sound) serve as more of a trigger than an aid in calming.
I developed single sensory grounding as an abbreviated version of the skill to use with these populations. I designed the coping strategy to be simple to remember and to engage breathing regulation and muscle stretching, as well as focusing on a single sense. My students found visual grounding and tactile grounding to be the easiest to do and the most regulating, so those are the scripts I created. тем не мение, you could easily create scripts for other senses (hearing, smell), также.
This activity gets students out and about in the school in small groups, practicing an effective grounding strategy in actual locations most likely to trigger anxiety and dysregulation.
Download includes detailed instructions, discussion questions, alternative and extension ideas, scripts for the exercises, and sample BINGO cards.
