Teaching · Reading Intervention

Accommodations every teacher carries out the same way.

Record the impairment and the activities it limits, then list each accommodation with its kind, where it applies and who carries it out. The summary sorts them by setting and flags the ones that need a second look, such as read-aloud on a test of reading itself.

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The 504 accommodations draft

One draft per student and meeting. Use initials or a code, never a name. The example is made up.

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What you get

Teaching · Reading Intervention$12 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
For each student, the basis for the plan, an accommodations table by kind, setting and owner, the reading instruction alongside it, and a follow-through plan, with a summary by setting and the points to fix before signing.
Who it is for
Section 504 coordinators, reading specialists and interventionists, classroom teachers and counselors who write and carry out 504 plans for students with reading difficulties.
Format
Browser form with an accommodations table. Several saved records; printed with the summary or as a blank form; CSV of the accommodations table; export and import a file.
Access
$12 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Also in the Reading Intervention toolkit ($49) and the Teaching Suite pass ($199), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives
The Reading Intervention space in Caveat Teaching.
Support
Questions about an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.
Drawn for this page. Accommodations change how a student gets to the content and shows what they know: hearing the text, more time, a different way to answer.

How to use it

  1. Start a record with the student’s initials or a code and the meeting date.
  2. Enter the documented impairment and mark the major life activities it limits.
  3. Add each accommodation with its kind, where it applies and who carries it out.
  4. Note the reading instruction the student also gets.
  5. Mark who has the plan and how you will know it helps, then fix what the summary flags.

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What the draft is for

The Section 504 question

Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act protects students with a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities. Since the ADA Amendments Act of 2008, reading, learning, thinking, concentrating and communicating are named major life activities, and the limit is judged without the effect of mitigating measures. A student who qualifies receives regular or special education and related aids and services designed to meet their needs as adequately as the needs of other students are met.

Access is not instruction

Audio text and read-aloud let a student reach grade-level content while reading skills catch up; they do not build those skills. Keep the reading intervention on the same page. On a test of decoding or reading comprehension, read-aloud changes what is measured, so name the tests it does not cover.

What this form is not

It is a draft, not the 504 plan, and it does not decide eligibility. State tests follow your state’s accommodation rules. Records use a code, never a name, and stay in this browser.

Sources

  1. Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act regulations, 34 CFR 104.33 to 104.36 (free appropriate public education, educational setting, evaluation and placement, procedural safeguards).
  2. ADA Amendments Act of 2008, 42 U.S.C. 12102 (major life activities include reading, learning, concentrating, thinking and communicating; mitigating measures not considered), and 28 CFR 35.108 (writing among major life activities).
  3. U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights (2016). Parent and Educator Resource Guide to Section 504 in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools.
  4. International Dyslexia Association. Fact sheets on accommodations for students with dyslexia (dyslexiaida.org).
  5. Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, 34 CFR Part 99.

The example student is made up. The draft supports a Section 504 team; it does not decide eligibility or replace your district’s 504 procedures and forms. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.