Now and next boards are a visual strategy that can be used to reduce anxiety by preparing children for what activities and lessons are coming up next. Many children can become anxious if they do not know their routine or what is coming next, a visual timetable can alleviate anxiety and make children feel calmer and more in control. They can also be used as a reward strategy and incentive to complete work by putting their current work task in the ‘Now’ box and a reward in the ‘Next’ box. This pack has a chart with two boxes for ‘Now’ and ‘Next’ and 72 visual timetable cards with lessons and activities as well as 22 reward cards. Clipart Images courtesy of Kari Bolt Clip Art

These planning sheets contain a basis for planning in a nurture group.  They show afternoon planning assuming that mornings will be for core subjects.  There are links back to boxall targets and activity suggestions from beyond the boxall profile.  There are also independent activities that link back to this.

When children are non-verbal or have trouble communicating it can be frustrating and difficult for them. These visual aids for basic communication can help children to express their needs and can help to prevent problematic behavior that may arise as a result of communication barriers. This mat is designed to help children express how they are feeling. Emotions shown on the mat are: happy, sad, angry, confused, scared, poorly, excited, tired, worried and surprised. Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Clip Art

Social story to explain to children the importance of following the rules at school. The point of a social story is to use a patient and reassuring tone to teach children about social situations in a way that can be easily understood. Social stories can be useful for any child who is struggling to understand a situation or concept or needs help to understand a social skill or social cue, expectations, perspectives, common responses or is troubled about an upcoming event but social stories are particularly useful for children on the autistic spectrum for whom social cues can be challenging and who often suffer anxiety if they do not know what to expect from a situation. These books should be used over and over to reinforce the point so I would suggest either putting the pages into a display book or laminating and binding them. Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Clip Art

5 Worksheets, one for each vowel sound (a, e, i, o, u). The worksheets contain a large letter showing the vowel sound and then lots of pictures, children need to circle the pictures that have the correct corresponding vowel sound in the middle of the word. Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Clip Art

Social stories use a patient and reassuring tone to teach children about social situations in a way that can be easily understood. Social stories are particularly useful for children on the autistic spectrum for whom social cues can be challenging and who often suffer anxiety if they do not know what to expect from a situation however social stories can also be useful for any child who is struggling to understand a situation or concept or needs help to understand a social skill or social cue, expectations, perspectives, common responses or is troubled about an upcoming event. This social story is encouraging children to say sorry after an argument with a friend or doing something wrong. These books should be used over and over to reinforce the point so I would suggest either putting the pages into a display book or laminating and binding them. Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt.

26 worksheets in which children can practice letter recognition and handwriting. One worksheet for each letter of the alphabet with each showing a picture to color that begins with that letter, letters to trace and handwriting lines to write for themselves and also the letter shown using a variety of different fonts to pick out and find the correct ones. All worksheets show both capital and lower case letters. Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Clip Art

5 Worksheets in which children need to look at a picture and think about what the short vowel sound would be in the middle of that word, they then need to color the correct letter. Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Clip Art

Worksheets each with 6 different activities to support learning to read and spell high frequency sight words: reading, coloring, making the word with magnets, tracing, writing and putting the word into a sentence. Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Clip Art

Worksheets in which children need to look at a picture and then write in the missing beginning sound from the word. Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Clip Art

5 Worksheets with different activities to support children with addition within 10 including counting spots on dice, counting fingers, pictures, numicon and addition on a number line. Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Children’s Illustrator and Arty Clips Graphics

6 Worksheets with different activities for comparing size, length, weight and volume for early years and year 1 Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Children’s Illustrator and Arty Clips

Worksheets with pictures made up of basic 2D shapes: circles, squares, rectangles and triangles. Children can identify and find different shapes within the pictures and count how many of each shape there are.

Social stories use a patient and reassuring tone to teach children about social situations in a way that can be easily understood. Social stories are particularly useful for children on the autistic spectrum for whom social cues can be challenging and who often suffer anxiety if they do not know what to expect from a situation however social stories can also be useful for any child who is struggling to understand a situation or concept or needs help to understand a social skill or social cue, expectations, perspectives, common responses or is troubled about an upcoming event. This social story is about remembering to put your hand up to speak in class instead of calling out. These books should be used over and over to reinforce the point so I would suggest either putting the pages into a display book or laminating and binding them. Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt.

Display cards for parents to use at home to support children in becoming more independent when leaving the house. These cards can be set up by a parent before hand or along side the child with all the things that they need to remember that day and it can be put up near the door so that as they leave the house they can check their checklist for that day and see if they have everything they need. Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Clip Art

These behavior prompt fans can be used in class to easily instruct children without words. This can helpful during whole-class teaching when you do not want to interrupt the flow of teaching and can be particularly helpful for visual learners. Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Clip Art

Alphabet Chart to support children’s independent writing Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Clip Art

Worksheets in which children need to use the picture and the first part of the word to work out and write what the final sound in the word would be. Simple 3 and 4 letter words. Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Clip Art

25 Worksheets each with a different high frequency sight word to support children with with reading and recognising words. Children can pick out the given word and only color clouds with the correct word. Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Children’s Illustrator

6 Worksheets for children to practice blending and reading CVC words with words broken down into each individual sound and sentences broken down into each word. Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Clip Art