UDL Strategies

Academic Language Toolkit Dozens of resources for supporting academic language development. Developed right down the road in Sweetwater. Many of these strategies are from Kate Kinsella.

Also from Kate Kinsella, key academic language terms.

Check out the pre-made vocabulary sets on Vocabulary.com

Word Walls & other vocabulary strategies

Vocabulary Preset Activity (From Staci Ortiz-Davis at TPHS)

The Best Places to Get the Same Text Written for Different Lexile Levels

Google Chrome Apps for Leveled Reading

Tea Party Protocol

Here’s a 2 minute video that explains the pre-reading strategy, Tea Party, and how to use it. You can even have students watch this video to learn about the Tea Party Protocol and have them do it in class.

Here’s a 5 minute video in which an ELA teacher uses a “silent tea party” to structure collaboration. She uses this activity to introduce a book, but it could easily work with non-fiction or primary source documents. The Teaching Channel, is a great resource for videos of quality instruction in action.

Mastery Oriented Feedback

Peer Feedback Checklist (From Brian Gillette at PTMS - Students have to get a peer to look over their work before they turn it in)

Guided notes

Graphic Organizer for reading (Brian Gillette and Gregg Hunt at PTMS )

Graphic Organizer for writing Brian Gillette and Gregg Hunt at PTMS )

Top Hat Organizer

Long list of UDL Strategies

Accommodations for All learners - helps teachers how to eliminate barriers with practical options and choices that increase accessibility.

Hyperdocs can be a useful tool in your own teaching. Here’s a link to learn more about them.

Talk Cards, an idea taken from Ambitious Science Teaching.

Use closed captions with videos.

Student Project Menu - Thanks to TP History teacher Austin Wade.

Think-Write-Pair-Share