Accessibility for All

Students in special education face daily academic challenges in the classroom. For example, a student may have difficulty reading and comprehending a text due to visual impairment or dyslexia. Another student might find it challenging to use their limited motor functions to grip a pen when writing an essay. However, these are challenges all our students face. Accessibility features offer our students independent support that can bridge content acquisition, comprehension, and production. Just as we explicitly teach Photosynthesis, we must explicitly teach our students how to navigate and apply the appropriate accessibility options. My lesson looks to introduce, navigate and master different accessibility features available to my students. Upon learning a new feature, students will draft a self-reflection report. Finally, students will apply their new knowledge in the summative assessment to analyze a grade-level text via a gallery walk.