Accommodations: do NOT significantly change the curriculum to be mastered by the student.
Modifications: anything that significantly changes the curriculum that the student is to master.
Examples:
*Accommodations:
-Note taking assistance
-Oral test
-Books on tape
-Fewer responses to multiple choice questions
-Extended time
-Correct study guides
-Graphic organizers
-Scaffolding
*Modifications:
-Not grading the essay portion of an assignment
-Doing 10 vocabulary words rather that 20
-Providing lower level text
-Changing number of points student must get in order to pass
-Modified grading rubric of points student must get in order to pass
-Modified grading rubric