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SERP475
19 April 2017
Instructional Activities
Eighth grade students with mild disabilities in Special Education Language Arts Class.
Topic: Vocabulary
Objective: Students will practice looking up definitions, as well as learn new words, and make
connections to words they already know.
Materials: Laptops, Vocabulary sheet, pencil
Implemented: Students have a list of vocabulary words they must complete by the end of the
unit. They use their laptops to look up the definitions of words and write them on their paper.
They also write examples, non-examples, and draw a picture that will help them remember the
definition of the word.
Topic: Presentations
Objective: Students will practice speaking in front of a group of people.
Materials: Power point
Implemented: Students work on a presentation of explaining main events that occurred during
the Holocaust. They present their presentation in front of their classmates. This is used to help
them practice for presentations they will have to do in high school.
Topic: Debate
Objective: Students will debate a topic of interest and use evidence found from texts to back up
their ideas.
Materials: Laptops
Implemented: Class decides on a topic to debate about. Then the class is split in half and asked
to research the position of their topic. They gather evidence and create main points to discuss
during the debate. Then the two groups debate against each other.