Modifications: Refer to practices that change, lower, or reduce content.
Examples:
100 - 90 = A, 89 - 80 = B, 79 - 70 =C, 69 - 60 = D, below a 60 = F.
Accommodations: Practices and procedures that provide equitable access during instruction and assessment.
Examples:
**Please keep in mind that accommodations and interventions are often very similar or the same in some instances. When you are in an environment with a large percentage of students that are deficient in academic skills and/or content knowledge, teachers often will provide accommodations for the class as a whole.
**In fact, it is often the case that accommodations are also research-based instructional practices. For instance, you may require all students to annotate text as they read, to use graphic organizers to compare concepts, or to utilize checklists to remember multi-step processes.