Accommodation: Allow Alternative Responses
Accommodation: Allow Alternative Responses
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Suitability
Suitability
Recommended Domains:
Recommended Domains:
Speaking, Writing
Recommended Levels:
Recommended Levels:
Entering (1) through Emerging (2)
Description
Description
Alternative response options allow students to demonstrate their learning by completing instructional assignments or assessments through ways other than typical verbal or written responses. It employs strategies that ask students to show what they can do.
Example
Example
Oral Presentations or Performances
Role-plays: students write a play and perform
Interviews: Have students pick from a pile of pictures, and ask questions to elicit responses from them. You can assess the student based on vocabulary used or comparing concepts.
Orally describe,explain, retell, paraphrase, summarize texts
Non-verbal Assessments
Charades: Give a student vocabulary words you’ve taught, and have them act it out to see if they understand what the word or concept is.
Pictures: You can ask students to draw or collect pictures to show their knowledge on a topic.
Thumbs up/Thumbs down
Templates (e.g., format to write a friendly letter, guide to write a five-paragraph essay)
Technology
Speech-to-text (or voice-recognition) software for writing assignments
Observability
Observability
What it Sounds Like in the Classroom
What it Sounds Like in the Classroom
Teacher
Teacher
Student
Student
“Look at the picture in this magazine. What is happening?”
“We're going to write a paragraph about the story. You can use your microphone to record what you'd like to write.”
The student explains what they see using the appropriate vocabulary for their level of English proficiency.
Student uses the text-to-speech feature to write the paragraph.
What it Looks Like in the Classroom
What it Looks Like in the Classroom
Teacher
Teacher
Student
Student
Creates alternative response options for assignments and assessments.
Students will participate in alternative response options for assignments and assessments.
Timeliness
Timeliness
When should the accommodation be removed?
When should the accommodation be removed?
The Allow Alternative Assessment accommodation may be removed when the student can complete the assignment with alternative support. For example, if a student can write an essay using sentence starters or paragraph frames then they would not need an alternative response. Most MLs do not require alternative assessments beyond the Entering level (1), but some students occasionally require this accommodation through the Emerging level (2). If you have questions, or feel your ML requires a change in their ILAP regarding this accommodation, please reach out to the ESOL teacher in your building to discuss the student's needs.
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