Multimedia Presentation addressing how educators can modify and accommodate resources for ESL students

1. Modifying and Accommodating
Content
For ESL Students

2. My name is Samantha Wanzor and I am a
current 8th grade English Language Arts
teacher. I am currently finishing a Masters
Degree in Teaching English as a Second
Language and Bilingual Education. I am
passionate about ensuring that all students
receive an education that meets their needs.
About The Creator

3. PSA!
Please make sure to explore all of the
links and watch the videos as they are
related to the content.

4. Our activities
Understanding the
“Why”
Explaining why it is
important to modify and
accommodate activities
Ways to Modify &
Accommodate
Different ways that content
can be modified
Including The
Home Language
Why including the home
language is important
Links to Resources
Links that educators can
use to modify their content

5. Why is modifying and
accommodating for ESLs
important?
Enhances
understanding
Allows students to enhance
their understanding of the
content.
Eliminates unease
in the classroom
Takes away the fear that
ESL students have in
the classroom.
Increases
confidence
Students will feel more
confident in both
language and content
understanding.
Expands Language
Acquisition
Students are about to
expand their knowledge
of the English
Language.

7. Ways to Modify and
Accommodate
Assessments
Expectations
Content

8. 1. Provide sentence starters
2. Provide graphic organizers
3. Allow the use of translation tools
4. Visual Aids
5. Simplified language
Content

9. Expectations
1. Less Questions
2. Different Activities
3. Alternative Assessments
4. Writing Production

10. Assessments
❏ Extended times
❏ Bilingual terms or glossaries (New York State
Education Department)
❏ Read Aloud
❏ Sentence starters
❏ Alternative Assessments

11. —Kellie Woodson
“In these instances, you’ll
change the overall
expectations of the individual
student and/or make the
content less complex. The goal
is that this will help the student
learn as much as possible
while still working toward their
overall learning goal
(Woodson, 2023).”

12. Including the
home language

13. “The more you allow students to
engage authentically using their home
language (or a combination of their
home language and English), the more
EL students will gain confidence and
build proficiency in both languages and
content mastery. (Learning Accelerator)”

14. The following are tools that can be
used to
Links

15. Accommodation
and modification
Checklist
https:/
/www.is162.com/cms/
lib/NY01816451/Centricity/D
omain/118/Accommodations-
Modifications%20Checklist%20
for%20ESL%20students.pdf
Links

16. Assessment Modification
and Accommodations
https:/
/www.esasd.net/page
/2252
Links

17. Online Resources for ESL
Students
https:/
/www.edutopia.org/art
icle/helpful-online-resources-
teaching-ells/
Links

18. References
Leveraging language: How can students who are learning English use... Resources & Guidance from The Learning
Accelerator. (n.d.).
https://practices.learningaccelerator.org/problem-of-practice/leveraging-language-how-can-el-students-use-their-home-lan
guage-in-a-personalized-classroom#:~:text=The%20more%20you%20allow%20students,both%20languages%20and%20
content%20mastery.
Testing accommodations for English language learners. New York State Education Department. (n.d.).
https://www.nysed.gov/bilingual-ed/testing-accommodations-english-language-learners
Woodson, K. (2023, August 1). ESL modifications: How to set up your students for Success. FluentU English Educator
Blog.
https://www.fluentu.com/blog/educator-english/esl-modifications/#:~:text=Using%20Content%20Modifications%20When%
20Necessary,-There%20are%20definitely&text=In%20these%20instances%2C%20you’ll,towards%20their%20overall%20
learning%20goals.