摘要:
California's adoption of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in English Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science and Technical Subjects (California Department of Education, 2013) requires all students, including students with disabilities, to be college and career ready by the end of the twelfth grade. Yet, the resources and guidelines that are emerging to support educators in implementing literacy instruction for students with disabilities are mostly applicable to students with learning disabilities (Haager & Vaughn, 2013; Knight, Browder, Agnello, & Lee, 2010). In order to ensure that students with moderate to severe disabilities are also provided meaningful access to core curriculum instruction that aligns with CCSS, resources for this specific population of students also need to be developed to support educators in planning and implementing effective literacy programs. The purpose of this project was to create a curriculum guide for educators to assist them in developing and implementing instruction for students with moderate to severe disabilities, grades 4 th -6 th, that aligns with CCSS. The curriculum guide provides three case student scenarios, one for each grade 4 th -6 th, and specific examples of accommodations and modifications that can support each of these students in accessing core curriculum literacy activities as well as examples of systematic instruction to teach these students specific literacy skills. Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is utilized as a framework throughout the guide to further ensure the case example student access to and participation in literacy activities. The curriculum used for adaptation is Core Ready Lesson Sets; Grades 3-5, Journey to Meaning: Comprehension and Critique (Allyn, 2014) for 4 th and 5 th grade and Grade 6 English Language Arts Curriculum (EngageNY, 2014) for 6 th grade. Writing with Symbols 2000 and Boardmaker software (Mayer- Johnson, n. d.) was used to adapt literacy activities fo