I have been a special needs practitioner/teacher for ten years--it is my passion! I have taught students who range from profound to moderate to severe learning difficulties. I also have a lot of experience teaching students who are on the Autism Spectrum. Most of the content that I teach focuses in the area of functional life skills, social skills and behavior modifications.
I have been a special needs practitioner/teacher for ten years--it is my passion! I have taught students who range from profound to moderate to severe learning difficulties. I also have a lot of experience teaching students who are on the Autism Spectrum. Most of the content that I teach focuses in the area of functional life skills, social skills and behavior modifications.
Looking for new ideas working on SLD Learners communication skills?
My Half Term (October) News session is a great resource, allowing your children to communicate and build sentences about their weekend news using symbols.
The resource includes:
-a ppt that you can use in circle time. Add your team’s picture and make it more interactive for your learners.
8 questions all widgit symbolised
a great selection of answers for your students to choose from, all widgit symbolised.
Colourful semantics literacy programme - Stage 2
This resource uses the concept of colourful semantics, paired with the Living Language stages of language development. The words used in the pack are form the Living Language starter programme and aim to help children put words in the correct order in a sentence. The child is given a cue picture and a coloured sentence strip with matching coloured symbols.
Functional, visual, adapted work to practice that tricky skill of retelling.
A hands-on, highly visual retelling tool for your SEN readers. This retelling packet comes with 10 fun Retelling passages widgid symbolised.
The strips are based in Colourful semantics template (orange colour for subject, green for objects, blue for places, purple for description) to help SEN readers remember to retell the characters, setting, and events of the text as they orally retell. All the visual are in widgit program.
Each Retelling passage contains highly visual cues that can be matched directly onto the retelling .
Summer is such a fun time for outside activities. This story is written by Charles Ghigna and illustrated by Ag Jatkowska.
The file includes:
1x PPP on the story I see summer
1 Building sentences activity
1 Find the initial sound activity
Are you looking for a New Year’s Eve festive story for your SEN class? ‘‘The Night before New Year’s Eve’’ is the perfect story for the occasion!
It’s the night before New Year’s, and the whole family is determined to stay up until midnight! Everyone’s stocked up on sparkly streamers and festive party hats, but after a night filled with board games and too many cupcakes, the little ones are getting sleepy. . . Can they make it until the clock strikes twelve?
The Budle includes:
a simplified version of the story in widgit
a sentence building activity
a sequencing worksheet
comprehension activity
Enjoy!
This is a great story about Spring season widgit symbolised for SEN learners.
Perfect for whole-class teaching, this PowerPoint features useful information about Spring.
-spring weather,
-what is happening to living things,
-what festivals are celebrated
to help support your teaching on Spring.
This file contains:
PPP of the story with Widgit visuals
Comprehension activity
2 writing tasks for MLD learners
2 Colourful semantics activities
Make maths fun with these Animal themed challenge word problems! (10 slides)
Each addition and subtraction word problem was designed to support students’ decoding skills, sight word vocabulary, and reading comprehension as they master math skills.
3 differentiated power points
Each slide features a different challenge featuring word problems to 20 with a lovely illustration to match.
1st ppt: Each slide includes the word problem, a number line and a ready equation template to support the learners thinking.
2nd ppt: Each slide includes, the word problem, a number line and a blank equation template.
3rd ppt: Each slide includes the word problem and a white box where the learner can build number sense and work with quantities.
The bundle includes a collection of 5 different cooking lessons to inspire your food technology lessons.
You will find:
5 ppt for each recipe (explaining the recipe of the day).
5 Widgitsymbolised cooking recipes that the kiddos can use during the cooking proccess.
-red sause spaghetti
banana bread
cheese twists
-oreo fudge
-shortbread
A great way to promote independence in food technology sessions.
Use this activity to help your children construct simple sentences.
‘‘Frozen’’ Colourful Semantics pack is a fun way to support children who struggle to construct a sentence independently. The colour scheme relates to the types of words in a sentence. For example, ���who’ words are orange (5 in total), ‘what doing’ words (verbs) (15 in total) are yellow, ‘what’ words (30 in total) are green.
This helps children to learn about word types and word order and sentence structure. Using Colourful Semantics, your children will become more confident and independent in their sentence construction.
Colourful Semantics are a great way to help children construct and create complete sentences. It helps children to identify the correct order of a sentence This is a great activity to help children learn the importance of sentence structure and order and support communication by answering simple ‘Wh’ questions.
There is an orange, yellow and green coloured sentence strip under each picture. You can print, laminate and use velcro onto them. Use hard velcro onto the coloured sentence strip and soft velcro behind each coloured symbol.
Can be transferred to written sentences and written language comprehension
Can be carried out individually or in small groups.
Are you looking for stories to practice reading comprehension skills?
Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt , provide a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills.
This pack of resources contains:
New Trainers:
ppt story widgit symbolised
ppt story for MLD learners (no symbols)
Comprehension activity widgit symbolised (8 questions in total)
Comprehension activity - (no symbols)
Colourful semantics activity
By the stream:
ppt story widgit symbolised
ppt story for MLD learners (no symbols)
Comprehension activity - no symbols
Comprehension activity widgit symbolised
Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt , provide a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills.
This file contains:
House for sale:
ppt story widgit symbolised
ppt story for MLD learners
Comprehension activity (11 questions and answers all widgit symbolised)
Comprehension activity -no symbols
Look Smart:
ppt story widgit symbolised
ppt story for MLD learners
Comprehension activity (13 questions and answers all widgit symbolised)
Comprehension activity -no symbols
Are you looking for stories to practice reading comprehension skills?
Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt , provide a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills.
This file contains:
Kipper’s Diary:
ppt story widgit symbolised
ppt story for MLD learners
Comprehension activity widgit symbolised (10 questions)
Comprehension activity - no symbols
Picnic Time:
ppt story widgit symbolised
ppt story for MLD learners
Comprehension activity widgit symbolised (10 questions)
Comprehension activity - no symbols
Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt , provide a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills.
This file contains:
On the sand:
ppt story widgit symbolised
ppt story for MLD learners
Comprehension activity (12 questions and answers to choose from - all widgit symbolised)
Comprehension activity - no symbols
1 Colourful Semantics activity
The cold day:
ppt story widgit symbolised
ppt story for MLD learners
Comprehension activity (10 questions and answers to choose from-all widgit
symbolised)
Comprehension activity - no symbols
‘‘Barry the Fish with fingers’’ is a great book to work on building up vocabulary and answering questions.
Fish come from all over the ocean to see Puffy the Puffer Fish’s amazing bubbles. Big bubbles, small bubbles, square bubbles . . . they’ve never seen anything quite so amazing, that is until Barry arrives on the scene. Barry is a fish with fingers and he’s going to put them to great use. The fish are amazed. Life under the sea will never be the same again . .
The pack includes:
Adapted PowerPoint of the story widgit symbolised. Includes symbols / text and sound effects to tell the story.
A Story Mat with symbols
6 extension activities are included in this pack for Moderate Learning Difficulties (MLD) or Severe Learning Difficulties (SLD) for differentiation.:
Two ppt: Comprehension Questions for SLD and MLD learners (8 questions each activity)
Two Colourful Semantics activities: Barry the Fish with fingers- C. Semantics Level 3 for SLD & Barry the Fish with fingers- Make a sentence for MLD learners
Two Maths activities: Barry the Fish with fingers- - counting activity- Digital activity SLD Level& Barry the Fish with fingers- What comes next activity SLD Level
Art activity: Decorate Barry and Puffy and make stick puppets
Use this activity to help your children construct simple sentences.
Colourful Semantics Level 4 is an approach can be used with children with a range of Speech, Language and Communication Needs. Developing the use of nouns, verbs, prepositions and adjectives.
Peppa pig Colourful Semantics pack is a fun way to support children who struggle to construct a sentence independently. The colour scheme relates to the types of words in a sentence. For example, ‘who’ words are orange (6 in total), ‘what doing’ words (verbs) (23 in total) are yellow, ‘what’ words (46 in total) are green and ‘place’ words (15 in total) are blue.
This helps children to learn about word types and word order and sentence structure. Using Colourful Semantics, your children will become more confident and independent in their sentence construction.
Colourful Semantics are a great way to help children construct and create complete sentences. It helps children to identify the correct order of a sentence This is a great activity to help children learn the importance of sentence structure and order and support communication by answering simple ‘Wh’ questions.
There is an orange, yellow, green and blue coloured sentence strip under each picture. You can print, laminate and use velcro onto them. Use hard velcro onto the coloured sentence strip and soft velcro behind each coloured symbol.
Can be transferred to written sentences and written language comprehension.
Can be carried out individually or in small groups.
‘‘The very lazy ladybird’’ is a great book to work on building up vocabulary, sequencing, and answering questions.
The very lazy ladybird likes to sleep all day and all night. And because she sleeps all day and all night, she doesn’t know how to fly. One day, she decides she wants to sleep somewhere else, so hops onto a kangaroo, but that’s too bouncy, the tiger is too noisy… but the elephant’s trunk is great.
ppt ‘‘The very lazy ladybird’’ story with widgit visuals
Visuals to stick on the book
Story mat
Comprehension activity.
Sequence activity
Are you struggling to find age appropriate Teen SEN stories?
Not anymore!
‘‘Matt gets wise’’ is a book for young people with special educational needs (14-19) dealing with personal male hygiene.
As a teacher of children with autism, personal hygiene tasks are a high priority on the school daily timetable. Dedicating time to personal hygiene books and activities as part of a routine, every day, is a good method of ensuring the children have regular time to learn these important skills. This book and its activities are a great resource to teach the importance of:
washing hands
getting dressed with clean clothes
brushing teeth
washing face
using the shower
washing under arms and using deodorant
The pack includes:
1 PPP on the story Matt gets wise, with widgit symbols (SLD)
4 extension activities are included in this pack:
1:Writing task: Write up Andy’s advice to Matt - MLD level
2: Match the right statement from Andy’s advice with the right picture - SLD level
3: Connect the words with Pictures - SLD Level
4: Sequencing Story MLD, SLD Level
5: Fill the gaps MLD, SLD Level
Explore animals that live in the Ocean using three different information stories simplified and moderate in widgit programme for SLD and MLD learners.
All three stories also include colourful illustartions and facts about each ocean animal and ocean habitat.
The pack includes:
A) 3 ppt stories about Ocean life :
Ocean view
The Ocean habitat in widgit
Under the Sea counting story with facts in widgit
B) 2 Comprehension activities:
Under the sea Comprehension Activity
Ocean view Comprehenson Activity
c) Visuals to stick on the story: Ocean view
D) 3 Maths Activities:
Count the Ocean Animals up to 10
The Ocean Habitat Addition Activity
What Comes Next with Ocean Animals - Complete Pattern Activity
This classic children’s book has been transliterated into widgit visuals . SEN students can read, stick the visuals in the right page and view the pictured (colours and animals) makaton signs at the same time.
The pack includes:
ppt ‘‘Brown bear, Brown bear, What do you see?’’ story with widgit visuals and makaton signs
Visuals to stick on the book
Story mat
Sequence the story activity
Building sentences activity ‘‘I see a…’’