Finding God Adaptive Grade-Level Catechist Orientation

3. Inclusion
Adapted from the Office for Persons with Disabilities, Archdiocese of Philadelphia

4. • Provide opportunities for the child to work with peers.
• Incorporate the concepts of generosity, kindness, and
compassion into your lessons.
• Anticipate needs before the lesson.
• Consider using the modifications listed in the
adaptation charts for the whole class.
• Ask an assistant catechist, volunteers, or parents to
work with the child to keep him or her on schedule
with the group.
Ideas to Keep in Mind

5. Finding God and Adaptive
Finding God

6. Unit Overview Charts
Grades 1–6 Grade 7

7. Your Creative Side

8. 3-Minute Retreat and Faith
Background

9. Grade-Level Pages

10. Prayer

11. Materials List

12. Adapting the Lessons:
Grades 1–6

13. Adapting the Lessons: Explore

14. Adapting the Lessons: Reflect

15. Adapting the Lessons: Respond

16. Adapting the Lessons: With My
Family

17. Adapting the Lessons:
Grades 7–8
Grades 7 Grade 8

18. Invitation to Inclusion

19. Assessments
• Session Assessment Option
• Unit Assessment Option
• For Grades 7–8: What’s What?

20. Loyola Learning Tools

21. Small-Group Activity:
God Is with Us
1. What are your hopes as you prepare to accompany a child
in his or her faith formation?
2. What are your fears as you prepare to accompany a child in
his or her faith formation?
3. Which words in the Scripture passage are reassuring to
you? Why?
For thus says the LORD: For I know well the plans I have in mind
for you…plans for your welfare and not for woe, so as to give
you a future of hope.
Jeremiah 29:11