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By Shirley

I experienced this last year with one of my students. In the end, Idecided that separating this child from the others was not in his best interest. While he could not do the exact work the others were doing independently,
he could still participate in the activities. I took the things we were doing in the group and broke out a part of that that he could do independently. For example, if we were working on addition without regrouping, he would also work on addition but would use some type of manipulative. Through the course of the year he learned to use touchpoints and a calculator to do a lot of the

math things. In spelling he would use letter tiles, alphabet stamps, magnetic letters, etc. to copy the words (usually only a small number) and we worked on naming the letters as we spelled them together. He often partnered with a higher functioning student to complete activities.
Hope this helps. I know it is a lot of work, but I found it was easier than doing separate lessons.
Good luck!! If this sounds like somehting you would like to try, let me know and I'll see if I can be more descriptive.