Special Needs Learners:

• Incorporate additional activities to keep them on task
• Pair them with other students for reading and jobs
• Read the assigned sections aloud
• Allow them to choose the job they will be most successful doing, if they are poor writers, allow them to do jobs involving illustrations
• Tape record the readings
• Use large print books
• Provide individualized instruction
• Find an interesting way to show they know the answer to questions during discussions (tapping your nose, tugging your ear)

ESL Students:
 

• Provide tape recorded versions of the readings
• Allow them to work with a Special Needs teacher to translate into their language
• Allow them to incorporate their language into the story and jobs, where appropriate (for Word Wizard, they could give the translation of the word in their language
• Partner reading
• Echo reading
• Prereading sections before reading aloud
• Use picture sorts to increase their image/name recognition
• Place them in a lower level group, where they can work on fluency, translation, reading rate, etc, so that they can gradually move up
• Conduct the IRI test to assess reading level