Learning experiences and assessment opportunities
As part of this unit, the teacher is planning to implement the following learning experiences
and assessment opportunities. The teacher has documented the adjustments that Daniel
needs in order to access the planned learning experiences and assessment opportunities.
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Support Materials for Students with Special Education Needs
English K–6
Case Studies
CASE STUDY 3
Learning experiences, assessment opportunities and adjustments
Learning experiences and assessment opportunities Adjustments for Daniel
The teacher reviews the purpose, structure and common
• Daniel is provided with an opportunity to
grammatical patterns of the Discussion text type.
review his social story about different viewpoints
The class engages in the shared reading of a number
of Discussions. The teacher uses shared reading to:
and accepting other people’s opinions prior to
the learning experiences
• highlight common grammatical patterns
• guide students to identify different viewpoints using
a model on the interactive whiteboard (the different
viewpoints are highlighted in different colours)
• identify opinions versus facts
• Daniel is provided with a list of examples of
• identify ways that arguments can be strengthened,
the type of verbs used to indicate fact (ie relating
eg evidence, expert opinions.
verbs such as
is
,
are
,
have
) and the type of verbs
used to indicate opinion (ie thinking verbs such
The teacher introduces the issue of ‘logging’. The class use
as
think
,
believe
,
hope
)
their existing knowledge to brainstorm pluses and minuses
in relation to logging. These are recorded on a ‘think sheet’.
The teacher guides the class to identify interest groups
(eg loggers, environmental groups, community, governments
etc.) related to the logging of a particular area of rainforest,
studied as part of the HSIE unit.
Students are divided into small-groups, each group
• Daniel is provided with a checklist of interaction
representing an interest group. Students predict and
guidelines. The teacher reviews the skills with
record the viewpoints of their appointed interest group.
which Daniel has difficulty
• Daniel is provided with a scaffold for task
completion
• Daniel is provided with sentence starters to
assist him to express the views of his interest
group, eg ‘Loggers believe ___________.’,
‘If logging is banned ___________.’
• the teacher may initially place Daniel in a group
that reflects his viewpoint
• the teacher closely monitors Daniel’s group
