Special Education Modifications to Common Core: ELA: Language

As you all know, it is often difficult and time-consuming to find all the resources needed to differentiate instruction. Rachel Young and I have taken the time to build a blog for you all. Please leave a comment at the bottom of the page if you know of anything else that would be useful to us teachers. Enjoy!

The following are links to websites with products that would be useful for students with special needs.

Stetson Spelling Program

Hot Fudge Monday: Hot Fudge Monday brings together the study of words, the process of writing, and putting words into meaningful sentences. This book is written to make sense to students, using words, terms, and contexts they can understand. Hot Fudge Monday consists of eight chapters that focus on verbs, nouns, prepositions, adjectives, conjunctions, pronouns, interjections, and adverbs. FREE: Example of Hot Fudge Monday activity

How to Write Series books

Interesting Websites

Differentiation
Graphic Organizers: 58 assorted Language Arts organizers.
Kathy Schrock's Guide to Apps
Hands-on-Lessons
Sparknotes

Videos

The first video is an example of a teacher using Common Core in his classrooms and also differentiating for students.

Blabberize.com: check out the Einstein video. Students can make their own FREE video to express their learning of vocabulary, theme, etc...

Here We Go

Beginning in 2014, the Common Core Standards will be launched in all schools throughout WV. Here are tools that can be used when teaching the Language part of the 9th grade ELA CC standards.
The "I Can" statements are followed by these tools: websites, videos, and other strategies.

• I can use phrases and clauses to convey specific meanings and add interest to writing and presentations.

Grammar Game Online : this website contains 2 different leveled games that will help students with all parts of speech. The Beginner level focuses on nouns and verbs only, with the Advanced level focusing on all parts of speech.

Teaching English Through Comics :  this website has multiple ideas and strategies for teaching grammar within presentations such as comics.

Humorous Grammar Rules: Students and teachers alike will enjoy these funny rules that will also help them understand rules of speech.

• I can use a semicolon, colon, and spell correctly.
  

Using Semicolons and Colons

Text Lingo: Use this activity to utilize when teaching spelling to high school students, which is not too elementary.

Video for Semicolon and Colon use

• I can write and edit work so it conforms to guidelines in a style manual.

MLA Handbook

• I can use a reference material.

Dictionary and Thesaurus                      Encyclopedia 

• I can use figurative language to interpret figures of speech and analyze nuances.

Euphemism Powerpoint: Very helpful when needing to clarify euphemisms and their proper usage.
Oxymorons & More!
Teaching Nuances: The 2nd video from the top shows teachers examples of how to teach nuances.