This article presents a procedure found effective for including students with special needs in daily instructional activities within a general classroom. Practices, based on authentic assessment and subsequent individual intervention decisions, resulted in full participation of students with special needs in daily classroom instruction. Individualized instruction by incorporating student choice of materials, feedback from teacher-designed rubrics, and application of student-constructed reading logs offers students with disabilities the opportunity to maintain growth and appropriate development in general education classrooms.
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