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Benchmark – Language Disabilities and Assistive Technology Unit Plan |
April is a fourth grader with a language impairment, but no physical impairment. Her performance on norm-referenced measures is 1.5 standard deviations below the mean for her chronological age. April has good decoding skills, but has difficulty with reading comprehension, semantics, and morphological processing. One accommodation that is prescribed in the IEP is the use of visual cues to support comprehension when learning new skills. She lacks organizational skills for writing and struggles with word choice. She receives services from a speech and language pathologist who is working with her on understanding word parts, vocabulary, and multiple meanings of words. You instruct April in a resource classroom with five other fourth grade students who also struggle with reading and written expression.
Communication goals in IEP:
- April will identify at least five key content vocabulary words from an assigned reading using text with Mayer-Johnson symbols in Proloquo2go software and text to speech software with 90% accuracy over 10 consecutive trials.
- April will write a definition for up to five key content vocabulary words from an assigned reading with 90% accuracy on a rubric over 10 consecutive trials.
- April will use up to five key content vocabulary words in written sentences that use the word correctly in context, and include correct spelling, punctuation, and grammar with 90% accuracy over 10 consecutive trials.
Part 1: 3 Day Unit Plan
Use the “3 Day Unit Plan Template” to complete this assignment.
Create an English language arts (ELA) unit plan for your resource classroom based on Arizona or your state's ELA fourth grade literacy standards specific to vocabulary acquisition and use. Includethe following in the unit plan:
- Strategies to enhance students’ language development and communication skills in the Multiple Means of Representation section.
- Strategies and technologies that encourage student engagement and the development of critical thinking and problem-solving skills in the Multiple Means of Engagement section.
Using details from the case study, address April’s needs in the Differentiation sections of the Multiple Means of Representation, Multiple Means of Engagement, and Multiple Means of Expression.
Specifically, incorporate the following into the unit plan to meet April’s needs:
- The use of the AAC systems and assistive technologies planned in April’s goal to support her communication and learning.
- Differentiated formative and summative assessments that measure April’s progress on the IEP goals in Part 1.
Part 2: Rationale
Provide a 250-500 word rationale that explains:
- Why the instructional choices specifically meet April’s needs.
- How the selected augmentative and alternative communication systems assistive technology used in the lesson plan is appropriate for meeting April’s needs.
Support your work with 2-3 scholarly resources.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is/is not required.
College of Education (COE) program competencies and national standards assessed in the benchmark assignment:
COE 1.7:
Use understanding of development and individual differences to respond to the needs of individuals with disabilities. [CEC 1.2, ICSI.1.K3, ICSI.1.K4, ICSI.1.K7, ICSI.1.K12, 20ICSI.1.K13, IGC.1.K4, IGC.1.S1; InTASC 1(a), 1(b), 1(d), 1(e), 1(f), 1(h), 1(j), 2(a), 2(b), 2(g), 2(h), 2(l); GCU Mission Critical 1, 2, 3, 5]
COE 2.9:
Use strategies to enhance language development and communication skills of individuals with disabilities. [CEC 5.4, ICSI.5.K2, ICSI.5.S19, IGC.5.S13, IGC.5.S14, IGC.5.S16, IGC.5.S17, IGC.5.S18, IGC.5.S19, IGC.5.S23, IGC.5.S24; InTASC 2(e); GCU Mission Critical 1, 4]
COE 3.9:
Plan instruction using augmentative and alternative communication systems and a variety of assistive technologies to support the communication and learning of individuals with disabilities. [CEC 5.3, ICSI.5.K2, ICSI.5.K3, ICSI.5.S15, ICSI.5.S19, ICSI.5.S20, IGC.5.K1, IGC.5.S7, IGC.5.S21; InTASC 3(h), 8(g); GCU Mission Critical 1, 4]
COE 3.12:
Teach cross-disciplinary knowledge and skills such as critical thinking and problem solving to individuals with disabilities. [CEC 5.7, ICSI.5.S14, ICSI.5.S15, ICSI.5.S16, IGC.5.S3, IGC.5.S10; InTASC 5(a), 7(h); GCU Mission Critical 1, 2, 4]
COE 4.6:
Use technologies to support instructional assessment, planning, and delivery for individuals with disabilities. [CEC 5.2, ICSI.5.K2, ICSI.5.K3, ICSI.5.S7, ICSI.5.S14, IGC.5.K1, IGC.5.K3, IGC.5.S1, IGC.5.S7, IGC.5.S23, IGC.5.S24, IGC.5.S25, IGC.5.S29; InTASC 6(g), 6(i), 6(r), 8(b); ISTE-E 3b, 5b, 5c, 6b; GCU Mission Critical 1, 4]
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LESSON UNIT PLAN TEMPLATE
Section 1: Lesson Preparation
Teacher Candidate Name:
Grade Level: 4
Unit/Subject: English Language Arts
Title of Unit and Brief Summary:
Day 1: Reading comprehension. This lesson focuses on developing the reading skills of the students.
Day 2: Deriving meaning from context. This lesson is about developing the skills of the students to derive the meaning of terms from
context.
Day 3: Answering questions using text. In this lesson, the students will develop their skills in answering questions from the text they
are reading.
Classroom and Student Factors/Grouping: This classroom consists of five students and all of them have learning issues that have to
be considered. There are English Language Learners, gifted students, students with disabilities, and those who finish work early. I will
accommodate the needs of these students by incorporating teaching methods that focus on the needs of each student.
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Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
National/State
Refer to details and examples in a
Determine the meaning of general
Refer to the text when asking or
Learning Standards
text when explaining what the text
academic and domain-specific
answering a question
says explicitly when drawing
words or phrases in a text relevant
inferences from the text.
to a grade 4 topic or subject area
(Arizona Department of
Education, 2016).
Specific Learning
By the end of the lesson, students
By the end of the lesson, the
By the end of the lesson, the student
Target(s)/Objectives
should understand the message in a
students should be able to define
should be able to answer questions
text
words learned in the text
using the text.
Arrest
Tidy
Outstanding
Furious
Orchard
Prefer
Unit Resources,
Textbook
Textbook
Textbook
Materials,
Graphic organizer
Software
Software
Videos
Graphic organizer
Graphic organizer
Academic Language
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Equipment, and
Questions/Tests
Technology
Depth of Knowledge
Level 1: Who are the characters in
Level 1: why did Ivy tidy her
Level 1: What did Paul choose?
Lesson Questions
the story?
room?
Level 2: How would you describe
•
Level 2: Why did the police arrest
Level 2: what do you think is the
Paul’s behavior?
peter?
meaning of orchard in the story?
Level 3: What would have happened
Level 3: Explain whether the
Level 3: What wou...