I teach young people with social communication difficulties, including autism.
I have worked in both primary and secondary mainstream ARCs and also specialist provision and I love my job!
I am slowly uploading resources that have worked well so check back every now and again.
If there are any resources or activities that you would like to see in my shop, feel free to message me. I love making resources!
I teach young people with social communication difficulties, including autism.
I have worked in both primary and secondary mainstream ARCs and also specialist provision and I love my job!
I am slowly uploading resources that have worked well so check back every now and again.
If there are any resources or activities that you would like to see in my shop, feel free to message me. I love making resources!
Colourful Semantics / Narrative - Interactive book with an Emergency Services theme. Who?-doing?-what? sentences.
I laminated this to create a book, attaching with keyring rings. The child or young person goes through the book identifying who is doing what in each picture. For example: ‘Police officer-walking-dog’ or ‘Fireman-sliding-pole’.
Tips:
When printing, I printed the last 3 pages twice, using the first copy as a baseboard and chopping the second copy to make individual cards, which I attach with velcro to the baseboard. This works best for me as it keeps the pieces together and is easy to see if any cards are missing.
While the child is becoming used to this activity, I talk them through each stage, encouraging them to identify ‘who?’ first, then ‘doing?’, then ‘what?’ Once the sentence is complete, I encourage them to repeat the sentence as a whole.
If a child struggles to identify from a full page of options, try offering them a choice or two cards, gradually increasing the number of options as they become more familiar with the activity.
Some children need prompts to really look at the picture and think about what they can see.
‘At the hospital’ - matching activity. Identify things found in the hospital. With this activity , I laminated and put velcro on the base board and matching cards. Two base boards included and two sets of cards for each baseboard - to cater for readers and non readers.
Also appropriate for use as a cut and paste work sheet.
‘Who board - emergency services’ - another activity which I laminated / added velcro. Matching images of emergency service workers to their names.
Again, also suitable for cut and paste activity if you prefer not to laminate.
Suitable for mainstream and SEN - created for KS3 learners with autism and learning disabilities.
This resource was created for Post 16 learners with SEND as part of their Entry Level maths / Life Skills work.
Learners discussed the importance of checking best before dates on food and choosing food items with the longest date.
There are 2 worksheets, one with only 2 items to compare and one with 3 to allow for differentiation.
A4 worksheet to prompt pupils to recollect what they have done over the summer holiday. Designed for pupils with autism but also suitable for mainstream pupils.
Resources made for Science Week with a focus on ‘Staying Alive’. We learnt about the difference between living and non living things, that animals including humans grow from babies into adults, that some animals grow inside their mother while others hatch from an egg, children kept a food journal for later learning about a balanced diet. Before learning about basic needs, children attempted to complete a mind map, adding to this later.
Living / Not Living / Never Lived sorting activity / workstation task
What do you call a baby… table to complete
5 day food journal - table for students to complete (Monday to Friday)
Egg or Mum? Sorting activity / workstation task - did this animal grow inside its mother or hatch from an egg?
Human basic needs - male and female mind map activity, pupils to add what is essential for human life.
Designed for KS1 / KS2 children with autism but also suitable for mainstream learners or older learners with SEN.
Cards to cut and laminate. These are designed to be used with clothes pegs - the child attaches the clothes peg to the correct answer.
Identifying written numbers (1 - 10)
Identifying the number 1 before or one after (1-20)
Identifying initial letter
Identifying last letter
Suitable for KS1, SEN, Autism tasks.
Basic literacy and maths reinforcement activity.
Worksheet designed for KS3 pupils with SEN including autism. Help card included for pupils who may struggle with the task. Strips to paste in exercise books with basic extension task. Books used as examples are likely to be familiar to pupils.
Simple activity, would be suitable for younger pupils without SEN, or older pupils with SEN.
Worksheet to support pupils in reflecting on events in their lives so far. Developed for pupils with SEN and autism who struggled with reflection, recall and sequencing.
Graph and tally templates used during introductory lessons for tally counting, graphs and pictograms.
Used for KS1 and KS2 children with autism but also suitable for mainstream children or KS3 pupils with SEN.
Pictogram has differentiated questions.
Presentation and mind-map template - to assess student's learning at the end of a topic. Could also be used s a formative assessment tool at the beginning of the topic, with students adding their new learning to the mind map at the end.
Designed for Y7 pupils, all with autism.
Two PowerPoint presentations - one on Victorian Childhood and one on Victorian toys.
TEACCH style questions (for both topics) to ensure that activities are structured.
Cut and paste activity - cut out pictures of Victorian toys and complete the table.
Resources made to support SEN group with autism. We read 'Little Polar Bear' by Hans de Beer.
Colour cards are orange 'who' words to support Narrative Intervention.
Structured visual (TEACCH) included to support students to write about Lars and Henry's journey. This is coloured red as this covers 'where' words.
Will work equally well for children who are not using narrative intervention - in which case the word colours could just be random. Could also benefit children without ASD who struggle with working memory, attention or writing activities.
Saved as PDF.
Worksheet I developed to reinforce a social skills lesson on 'relevant' and irrelevant' comments. Used with KS3 pupils who have autism and additional SEN.
PowerPoint created for Asdan PHSE course. Pupils act as agony aunts / uncles and write advice to other young people who have queries about drug use. Used for Year 9 pupils with autism / SEN.
Developed for PSHE Short course but can be used for general drugs education.
Several resources on a Three Little Pigs theme. Designed for primary children with autism but would also work for mainstream.
Three Little Pigs wordsearch
Three Little Pigs wordmat
'All About Pigs' information sheet with accompanying booklet for children to complete. (Comprehension)
Wolf / house craft - children cut out squares with pictures of the Three Pigs' Houses, these are stuck onto the main sheet as a 'door'. Behind the door, children write whether the Big Bad Wolf managed to blow down that house.
'Is' or 'Are' worksheet with Three Little Pig theme.
These 2 Power Points were designed to accompany a 'Victorian' box, on load from a local museum.
The lessons were planned for a group of Y7 students, all with autism - therefore speaking, listening and attention skills were also targeted, together with more general social skills. Students also struggled with theory of mind / speech and language which the describing activity and game sought to target.
My young people really enjoyed these lessons and the activities were completed over several weeks.
If you are lucky enough to have a local museum which loans topics boxes then that wold be ideal, however the activities would also work if you have your own set of Victorian learning resources.
Resource created to support learners with ASD in understanding personality and appearance - this can be a real area of difficulty for learners with ASD.
Children should write outside of the first image, describing 'outside', they write inside the second image to help them understand that personality is on the 'inside'.
This is a bundle of resources based on a Victorian topic I delivered to a group of young people who all had autism and were in Y7 .
Most presentations are structured and some include TEACCH style structured questions.
Areas covered: Victorians and Christmas, Children and toys, Schools, Queen Victoria.
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Presenting your Learning and Classroom Weather Chart suitable for classroom routines and expectations.
Various ‘About Me’ activities including a game, booklet and craft activity.
‘My Summer Holiday’ structured worksheet to support recall of holiday activities.
Activities designed for learners with SEN, including autism but also suitable for mainstream class.