8 Worksheets in which children can practice tracing over and writing numbers 1-10. There are also activities to count and draw the correct number of objects and math numbers to counting fingers. Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Children’s Illustrator and Arty Clips Graphics

Teaching life skills to children with special educational needs helps to give them knowledge and skills to handle daily tasks, become more independent and know how to take action when an adult is not around to help. The teaching of life skills should be thought of as a crucial part of the curriculum for children with special needs as it prepares them for day to day challenges and helps the become more productive members of their communities. This resource provides planning, teaching slides, vocabulary cards and data tracking sheets as well as a range of different activities perfect for use with a whole class, small group and some of them can be used as independent workstation activities. This unit covers housekeeping and chores, and teaches children about the importance of keeping a clean and tidy house and how to do certain household tasks. INCLUDED: · Ideas for planning · Teaching slides · Vocabulary cards · Data tracking sheets · Social story · Bingo game · Instruction cards with real photos · Labelling activities · Picture to picture matching · Word to picture matching · Differentiated scenario question and answer · Sequencing activities · Sorting activities Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Clip Art

Social story about keeping your hands to yourself for children who are touching and poking others or touching other people’s things. 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

Booklet containing a collection of summer fun activities for the end of the school year. It contains 2 mazes, wordsearch, crossword, maths challenge, colouring in, colour by code, anagrams, a summer activities fortune teller, follow the trail and drawing. Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Clip Art and Hidesy’s Clipart

A choice board is a visual support that can be used to communicate what choice a child, who finds it otherwise difficult to communicate, would like to make.  The use of choice boards can increase a child’s motivation to participate in school giving them a sense of control.  This particular choice board is to support a child in choosing what they would like to do during free time or choosing time. Although there are 8 spaces for choices on the board you can use it to put in as little as two options depending on the child and their needs.  There are 12 different choice cards so that again you can tailor which you put on the board according to the child. Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Clip Art

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. Pack includes 12 communication cards with words and pictures: Thank you I need the toilet I feel unwell I don’t understand Yes No I do not know I am hungry I am thirsty I feel happy I feel sad I feel angry Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Children’s Illustrator:

Questionnaires for parent and child following the child’s experience in nurture group

A visual timetable is a set of pictures and symbols representing the different sessions in your day. 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. These cards are specifically showing a child’s after school routine. Cards included show: Take off uniform Hang up clothes Put clothes in the wash Snack Drink Dinner Computer Tablet TV Bath Wash hands Shower Toilet Park Brush Teeth Put on Pyjamas Story Go to Bed Homework After School Club There are 2 versions of the cards - for boy or girl 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.

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

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

5 Worksheets in which children need to read a simple sentence containing CVC words and then draw a corresponding picture when they have read and understood the sentence. Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Clip Art

Classroom display showing circle time rules Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Clip Art

This social story is designed to prepare a child for getting a new baby brother or sister. There are 3 versions of the story; one for when mum is pregnant and the baby has not yet been born and then 2 for after the baby is born - one for a brother and one for a sister. These stories cover mum having to be in hospital, the baby coming to live in their house and how this might feel. It also prepares them for the fact that new babies cry and that mum and dad may need to spend a lot of time with the baby however it remains very positive and reassures the child that mum and dad still love them very much and that there will also be plenty of fun parts to having a new sibling. 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

Social story to encourage children to share their big emotions with a trusted adult. 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

Social story to explain to children the importance of taking care of your tablet.  It explains that it is an expensive piece of equipment and gives ways in which they should take care of it including putting it away when finished, not leaving it on the floor, keeping it in the protective case and not throwing it. 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

Colourful Semantics is a Speech and Language therapy technique which uses colour coded cards to help children to learn the important elements of a sentence,and how to join them together in the correct order. This resource is 4 sets of colour coded cards for who, what doing, what and where. There are 354 cards in total. Children can use these cards to plan sentences either to then speak aloud or to write down. Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Clip Art

Colourful Semantics is a Speech and Language therapy technique which uses colour coded cards to help children to learn the important elements of a sentence,and how to join them together in the correct order. This resource is 4 sets of colour coded cards for who, what, where and what doing. There are 395 cards in total. Children can use these cards to plan sentences either to then speak aloud or to write down. Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Clip Art

Two social stories to help explain a little about autism to a child with a sibling with ASD.  One book for a sister and one for a brother. 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 and My Clipart Store

This social story is designed to help explain a little about autism to a child with a friend with ASD. 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 and My Clipart Store