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Choosing support so everyone can take part

Grades 3–5 · Ready-made original

Learning goal

Choose a change that makes a task easier to join.

Materials

The student page below and a pencil.

Opening question · 3 minutes

“What support would make this task usable?”

A school situation · 5 minutes

A pretend team must read instructions and build a paper model. One student needs the print enlarged, another wants the instructions read aloud, and another works best after seeing the first fold. The goal is the same model.

One possible response · 4 minutes

Offer larger directions, a read-aloud, or a demonstration of the same paper task.

Practice · 10 minutes

What support would make this task usable?

1. A student can make a paper model but cannot read the tiny steps on the sheet.

2. A student hears the directions but needs to see the first fold.

Possible answers

1. Provide larger-print steps or read the same steps aloud.

2. Show the first fold. The goal stays the same even when the support differs.

Student page · 5 minutes

Use the ready-to-print student page at the end of this lesson. Students may write, draw, or give an answer aloud.

Exit question · 3 minutes

“Choose one of the stories. What could the student say or do first?”

Student page to print