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To address word recognition and related objectives for this student, while also addressing your curriculum, you may have her cut letters out of magazines and arrange them to spell key terms in your unit. These can be glued and posted as visual word cards for the class. Check your media center for trade books on the topic you're teaching. Often, you can find some at varying levels, which may offer a means of differentiating. Content of lower level books may not be as complex and a text you're using. One assessment technique that I have found very simple and effective: Before beginning a unit I hand out a blank sheet of paper and have students tell/list/draw everything they know about a topic - plants, for example. Then, after the unit, I distribute another sheet of blank paper and have them to the same thing. Depending on students' needs, I may offer to scribe or spell any words thay ask for on either the pre or post test. Try this and you will truly be amazed at what your students, even this student, learn. The first time I used this technique we were teaching electricity and magnetism and my fourth graders blew me away. The included labeled pictures of closed and open circuts on their post tests, while only listed household items on their prestest. It's a good way to let students see just how much they've learned as well. Hope these help for now. I'll think on your question and add some more ideas soon.
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