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.
‘‘Breakfast in Bed’’ is a story for young people with special educational needs (14-19) putting their kitchen skills to the test – with some interesting results.
Toni makes her mum breakfast in bed as a surprise. Will her mum be pleased?
The pack includes:
1 PPP on the story ‘‘Breakfast in bed widgit symbolised
5 extension activities are included in this pack:
1:Comprehensive activity for SLD and MLD learners
2: Sequencing Story SLD and MLD learners
3: Worksheet matching activity
4: Indicate the right letter to the word MLD, SLD
5: Match the pictures and describe how to make a cup of tea.
‘‘A bad day’’ is a story for young people with special educational needs (14-19) dealing with daily ups and downs
Andrew is having one of those days when everything goes wrong. Can his mum make him feel any better?
The pack includes:
1 PPP on the story ‘‘A bad day’’, on widgit symbols
5 extension activities are included in this pack:
1:Writing task: What did it happen to Andrew- MLD
2: Sequencing Story SLD Level only pictures.
3: Sequencing Story MLD Level
4: Indicate the right letter to the word MLD, SLD
5: Fill the gaps for MLD and SLD
Good morning questions booklet is a daily 15 minute activity for students with autism or a communication disorder who need extra practice to reflect on the current day, season and weather.
The student will be able to practice expressing how they feel and answering personal questions including what clothes they are wearing and what colours their clothes are.
A teacher or parent can print the desired pages, use the power point document with appropriately sized grids (all widgit ) to add the student’s answers.
This is a Colourful Semantics activity discount bundle set Levels 2, Level 3, Level 4
Learn to build sentences and develop your commenting skills.
Colourful semantics encouraging wider vocabulary and helps children to answer questions or generate responses to questions.
This activity pack includes:
• 102 pictures (34 Level 2, 34 Level 3 and 34 Level 4)
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 papercraft 3D Christmas card session is lots of fun for your children to do during your lessons before Christmas. Once they’re complete, they’ll look adorable and will be perfect for brightening up your classroom or send them at home this festive season.
These paper Christmas 3D crads are super simple for children to get along with too.
This activity is perfect for helping to improve fine motor skills and will help students to become more proficient at arts and crafts. It’s a perfect task to set students during the build-up towards the Christmas holidays and is sure to help you add a dash of festivity to your lesson plans.
When your students have finished making their paper tree, you could hang them with string from the ceiling to turn your classroom into a winter wonderland. Alternatively, students could take them home and use them as wishing cards.
This papercraft Christmas tree session is lots of fun for your children to do during your lessons before Christmas. Once they are complete, they’ll look adorable and will be perfect for brightening up your classroom or send them at home this festive season.
These paper Christmas trees are super simple for children to get along with too.
This activity is perfect for helping to improve fine motor skills and will help students to become more proficient at arts and crafts. It’s a perfect task to set students during the build-up towards the Christmas holidays and is sure to help you add a dash of festivity to your lesson plans.
When your students have finished making their paper tree, you could hang them with string from the ceiling to turn your classroom into a winter wonderland. Alternatively, students could take them home.
Elmer the colourful patchwork elephant has been a nursery favourite since this first book was published in 1989. A modern classic, this picture book is known to millions, and continues to be the strongest seller of the whole series, having sold over 2 million copies around the world. The subtle message is that it is OK to be different, and combined with the vibrant colour and cheeky humour of the main character.
The Budle includes:
A simplified version of the story widgit symbolised
a word mat
a sequence activity
a comprehension activity
a counting Elmer activity
a document that includes images of Elmer and jungle animals (you can print them and use them as puppets or decorate your class)
Enjoy!
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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…’’
Hot chocolate drink is a great way to get your children excited about drinking milk. Who does not love chocolate? It makes for a super yummy dessert! It is a great way to introduce your child to the essential life skill of cooking with this no cook recipe.
It is also a great recipe to use at home to teach essential life skills. Easy to implement in a life skills class.
You can find a visual step by step recipe in which the learners can read the steps and add the right visual.
Enjoy!
This is a Colourful Semantics activity set Level 2 (Subject-Verb)
Use this activity to help your children construct simple sentences. Colourful Semantics is a great way to support children who struggle to write independently. The colour scheme relates to the types of words in a sentence. For example, ‘who’ words are orange (9 in total), ‘what doing’ words (verbs) (20 in total) are yellow .
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 good activity to help children learn the importance of sentence structure and order.
Learn to build sentences and develop your commenting skills.
There is an orange and yellow coloured strip under each picture. You can print, laminate and use velcro onto them. Use hard velcro onto the coloured strip under the picture and soft velcro behind each coloured symbol.
Please see the sentences below:
The girl is jumping.
The dog is sleeping.
Te man is riding.
The girl is drinking.
The man is sleeping.
The girl is riding.
The lady is riding.
The girl is playing.
The boy is riding.
The dog is swimming.
The man is drinking.
The lady is drinking.
The boy is drinking.
The cat is playing.
The girl is climbing.
The man is giving.
The dog is eating.
The lady is walking.
The cat is eating.
The girl is walking.
The boy is painting.
The lady is giving.
The boy is singing.
The girl is swimming.
The monkey is drinking.
the girl is writing.
The lady is dancing.
The bear is eating.
The baby is playing.
The man is dancing.
The man is cooking.
The girl is reading.
The baby is crying.
The lady is running.
MLD colourful semantics cut-up sentences activity.
Use this cut-up sentences activities (2 documents) to help your children construct simple sentences. Colourful Semantics is a great way to support children who struggle to write independently. The colour scheme relates to the types of words in a sentence. For example, ‘who’ words are orange, ‘what doing’ words (verbs) are yellow , ‘what’ words are green ‘where’ words 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 writing.
Cut-up sentences are a great way to help children construct and create complete sentences. It helps children to identify the correct order of a sentence and will allow them to arrange it so it makes grammatical sense. This is a good activity to help children learn the importance of sentence structure and order.
MLD colourful semantics cut-up sentences activity.
Use this cut-up sentences activity to help your children construct simple sentences. Colourful Semantics is a great way to support children who struggle to write independently. The colour scheme relates to the types of words in a sentence. For example, ‘who’ words are orange, ‘what doing’ words (verbs) are yellow , ‘what’ words are green ‘where’ words are blue, ‘to Whom’ words are purple. 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 writing.
Cut-up sentences are a great way to help children construct and create complete sentences. It helps children to identify the correct order of a sentence and will allow them to arrange it so it makes grammatical sense. This is a good activity to help children learn the importance of sentence structure and order.
Looking for new ideas working on SLD Learners communication skills?
My Weekend 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.
7 questions all widgit symbolised
a great selection of answers for your students to choose from, all widgit symbolised.
‘‘From Head to Toe’’ is a colourful and energetic story that will have young readers clapping their hands, stomping their feet, and wiggling their toes!
Giraffes can bend their necks, monkeys can wave their hands, and donkeys can kick their legs. And so can you! Throughout this interactive story, the animals of ‘‘From Head to Toe’’ invite young readers to copy their antics as they play.
The pack includes:
ppt ‘‘From head to toe’’ story widgit symbolised
Visuals to stick on the book
Story mat
comprehensive activity - widgit symbolised
Matching activity pictures to symbols
Matching activity pictures to animal’s name
Learning skills such as folding or hanging clothes can be challenging for learners who have special needs. Using visuals is a wonderful way to teach this daily living skill.
In this bundle there are 7 power points and 7 step by step worksheets with visuals and widgit symbolised descriptions showing how to complete each step.
Simply print out each worksheet, laminate the visuals, cut them and use hard and soft velcro .
You can place this visual next to your life skills area in your classroom, or use it at home!
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.
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