Provide Multiple Means of

Representation

Provide Multiple Means of Action and

Expression

Provide options for perception

Provide options for physical action
The Described and Captioned
Interactive games are a great
Media Program is a program that
way to get the entire class
offers access to over 4,000
involved while also reviewing
videos with captions on them.
information. One game that
This is useful for classrooms that
could be used is a basketball
have students with auditory
related game. Students would
disabilities such as being deaf or
be asked a question and if
difficulties hearing.
they get it right they could try
https://dcmp.org/
and score. A website called
Lets Move suggests
The National Center on Accessible
incorporating physical activity
Educational Materials has a
into lessons.
program called AIM Explorer. This
http://www.letsmove.gov/incre
program is designed for students
ase-physical-activitywith low vision or learning and
opportunities
attention difficulties. It enlarges
A book by Nemours titled Best
text, reads passages out loud,
and can highlight or re-format
Practices for Physical Activity
text.
suggests that students also
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get at least 60 minutes of
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physical activity each day. It is
encouraged that this time is
UDL Editions by CAST is another
also spent outside doing ageuseful website that offers
appropriate muscle and bone
assistance when reading
strengthening exercises.
passages. It highlights words that
https://www.nemours.org/cont
may not be commonly known and
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provides a definition. It also
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points out parts of speech that
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the student may get confused on.

The Colorado Education

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Initiative gives lots of
examples of how to
An organization called Learning
incorporate physical activity
Ally has a website with lots of
into lessons. One idea that
information about different
was creative would get the
learning disabilities. This website

Provide Multiple Means of

Engagement
Provide options for recruiting interest
The website called Crayon
allows students to create their
own newspapers by piecing
together information from
different sources. By letting
them be creative and come up
with their own ideas, it can
spark an interested and keep
the students motivated to
complete the assignment.
http://www.crayon.net/
There are times that students
struggle to stay focused while
reading or working on
assignments because of
distractions either on the paper
or around them. Pace Car is a
website that helps students to
improve their reading rate by
reducing the amount of
distractions.
http://pacecar.missingmethod.c
om/
Sensory Processing Disorder
can affect students in all
classrooms and can be a little
difficult to work with. SPD Tips
for Teachers helps educators to
understand why some students
have difficulties focusing. It
also gives tips for how to make
your lessons easier to follow for
these students.
http://www.spdbayarea.org/SPD

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entire school involved and up
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other tools can be useful for not
out of their seats. It could be
A blog was created listing
only students with disabilities but
called a Fitness Drill and
techniques for limiting the
also the rest of the class. A
when the bell rings then the
common classroom
website like this can be helpful
student body as a whole will
distractions. The writing
for teachers to look at since the
get up and participate in some
provides a few different kinds
information comes directly from
kind of physical activity.
of interruptions that are
people struggling with these
http://www.coloradoedinitiativ
commonly seen in the
different disabilities.
e.org/wpclassroom and provides
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content/uploads/2014/08/CEIexamples for how to overcome
tors/Educator-Home
Take-a-Break-Teacherthem.
Toolbox.pdf
Giving oral instructions while also
https://englishwithjennifer.word
The State of Vermont
showing them on a board can be
press.com/2009/03/29/classroo
extremely helpful for students
encourages students to
m-distractions-how-much-canwith both auditory and visual
become involved in intermural
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disabilities. Understood is a
sports or clubs that involve
website that gives lots of
physical activity. Research
examples for ways to
shows that students who are
accommodate students with
regularly engaging in physical
these kinds of issues. A lot of
activity are better learners. By
them are very easy to do and
encouraging students to
dont require much extra effort.
become involved in fitness
https://www.understood.org/en/sc
programs, we can hopefully
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safe-schools/physical-activity
Provide options for language,
Provide options for expression and
Provide options for sustaining effort
mathematical expressions, and symbols communication
and persistence
Visuwords is a fun website that
There is a website that allows
Providing rubrics for
helps students understand the
students to create their own
assignments is really helpful
meanings of words. By typing the
video presentation using
for students who may have
word that they want to learn
pictures, videos, and audio.
trouble organizing a project. It
about, they are given an
The website is really easy to
can be hard for some teachers
interactive display of all the other
navigate so students would be
to create these rubrics though.
words that are similar to the one
able to use it for delivering
Fortunately a company called

they asked about. It also provides

a definition for all the words
related to the original one in
question.
http://www.visuwords.com/
Vocabahead is another website
that assists students with
language barriers. On the site, it
provides videos for how to
pronounce different words and
gives the definition. It then uses
the word in a few different
sentences to help the student
understand how to use the word
on their own.
http://www.vocabahead.com/
The website called Starfall is an
interactive site that helps
students learn to read. This can
be very helpful for ELL students
that are learning how to read
English. Students can play games
that test their knowledge and
help them learn how to read
easily. http://www.starfall.com/
Word2Word is a website that
helps students who speak other
languages communicate and
translate parts of a lesson. It has
lots of different languages and
acts as a dictionary and
thesaurus from one language to
another. This can be very helpful
for an ELL student to fully
understand the information in
front of them.
http://www.word2word.com/

projects and presentations.

https://animoto.com/
The app Voice Thread is a
creative tool that allows
students to add their own text
or audio to an image. This can
be useful in lots of classes to
help students explain why
they might have chosen a
specific image to represent an
idea.
http://voicethread.com/#home
Often times students have
difficulties with their spelling
and grammar. A website
Grammar Check allows
students to have their writing
checked by a computer to see
if it is grammatically correct or
not. This can be helpful to
teach students the correct
format for writing.
http://www.grammarcheck.net
/
Additionally there is a similar
website that helps students
check the spelling of words
they are using. They can type
what they are trying to write
in the box and it will see if
everything is spelled correctly.
If not it will tell the student
how to fix it.
https://www.spellchecker.net/s
pellcheck/
Book Builder is a website that
allows students to make their

Rubistar can help teachers

create them quickly and easily.
http://rubistar.4teachers.org/in
dex.php
Understanding what motivates
students is also important for
teachers to have some
knowledge on. A video was
made to help explain the
science behind why some
students are motivated by one
thing but why others are not.
http://www.wimp.com/thesurprising-science-ofmotivation/
Group activities can often
times help keep students
engaged and putting forth
effort. This is often because
they dont want to let down the
rest of their group. Edutopia
created a video to help
teachers design a math lesson
that is a social activity.
https://www.edutopia.org/mathsocial-activity-cooperativelearning-video
Glogster is a fun and
interactive website that allows
students to create a poster
using multimedias. This is a
useful app to help students
communicate their ideas on a
topic while also making it fun
to interact with.
http://edu.glogster.com/
Students have different

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mindsets when entering a
There is a website called Shahi
pictures, and captions to their
classroom, which gives them
that acts as a dictionary for words
own
plot.
This
can
be
useful
in
different strengths and
but also searches for images that
English classes to get the
weakness when learning.
correspond with the specific
creative
sides
of
students
Understanding how these
word. This website is extremely
involved in the classroom.
mindsets differ is important to
helpful for students with
http://bookbuilder.cast.org/
know and a website called
language barriers because they
Mindset online helps provide all
are able to read the definition but
the information needed.
also see a visual representation
http://www.mindsetonline.com/
of the word to help get an even
better understanding.
http://blachan.com/shahi/
Provide options for comprehension
Provide options for executive
Provide options for self-regulation
functions
The website learner.org helps
It is important for students to
There is a website called
students to understand the
understand how they learn
different parts of a story by
Worksheet Place that provides
best and to utilize their
providing examples of each. It
examples of different papers
strengths. A website called
provides a verbal description of
that could be utilized in the
Faces of Learning allows
each part of a story to help the
classroom. From behavioral
teachers and students to share
reader understand each aspect.
worksheets to papers for
the different techniques that
The parts of a story are important
setting goals, there are lots of
they use when teaching or
to know and understand so that
options for each subject. This
studying material. This is a
the reader can take away all the
is a helpful tool for teachers to
useful source for both
information from a story.
use for their lessons.
educators and students.
http://www.learner.org/interactive
http://worksheetplace.com/ind
http://www.facesoflearning.net/
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Setting goals for individual
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Reading long passages can be
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having a tool that automatically
everyone on track and
One website that can be
summarizes a reading can be
motivated. A blog through
helpful. A program called word
useful for students and
scholastic lists ways to set
tips actually does this for you. By
teachers is called the
these goals and how to
uploading a document, the
Assignment Calculator. This
encourage students to stick to
program selects the information
app creates a time
them.
that is most important to know.
management plan to help
http://blogs.scholastic.com/clas
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organize different assignments
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and projects that are due.
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Math definitions can be difficult
for students to keep straight and
understand fully. Sometimes they
might need to review the
information at a later date. The
website Math Open Reference has
definitions and descriptions for
most commonly seen math
terms.
http://www.mathopenref.com/
Quizlet is a great website that has
premade quizzes and also allows
you create your own as well. This
is a useful tool in classrooms to
help teachers assess how much
the students understand. The
website also provides some notes
and games to help students
study. https://quizlet.com/

Using this to help plan a

schedule can help students
work on their time
management skills.
https://www.lib.umn.edu/apps/
ac/
Another website that is very
beneficial for helping students
plan and organize is called
Study Guides and Strategies.
It provides information and
tips for how to study as well as
helping students manage their
time.
http://www.studygs.net/timma
n.htm
The app called Xmind helps
students to organize
information into a clear and
easy to follow format. It
creates neat mind maps using
the information provided by
the students. This can be
helpful for students to share
information with other
students and keep notes for
themselves.
http://www.xmind.net/

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Coping skills are an important
part of growing up and can
easily be taught in a classroom.
A website called Lesson Planet
provides lots of examples of
lesson plans that incorporate
coping skills. This website also
has other resources that can be
helpful.
https://www.lessonplanet.com/s
earch?
grade=All&keywords=coping+
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Education World explains how
letting students teach other
can be really helpful for
everyone. In order to explain
material you must first
understand it. When you know
the information then you can
be confident and teach others
your strategies.
http://www.educationworld.com
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