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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.

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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.
Winter holiday (Christmas) paper plate Christmas tree - Step by step - widgit symbolised
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Winter holiday (Christmas) paper plate Christmas tree - Step by step - widgit symbolised

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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.
Hot chocolate drink widgit symbolised
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Hot chocolate drink widgit symbolised

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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!
Sequencing stories and answering questions (5 stories) for MLD learners.
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Sequencing stories and answering questions (5 stories) for MLD learners.

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This product contains 5 stories for MLD students to practice sequencing. Students can put the story in order using a visual sequencing format. Students can read the text and answer questions. These stories are best suited for high first graders, second graders, or third graders who may need extra practice. These stories are also great for MLD Learners. These stories are great to use for differentiated learning. They can be used for small groups, literacy centers, morning work, homework, independent work, or in a whole group lesson.
Feelings and Emotions (made up story activity) - How did Laura feel?
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Feelings and Emotions (made up story activity) - How did Laura feel?

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Another adapted made up story activity to teach kids about emotions and feelings. Instill a love of reading, model fluency, and introduce new genres of stories to your students with adapted made up stories. You can laminate the story and add velcro on the squares. The last page includes a visual board of emotions. You can use the file both ways: Print the pages and use the pages as a “cut and paste” activity. The students will use glue to paste the correct answers where necessary. Print all the pages on photo paper and laminate them. Cut out the pages containing the feelings. Use Velcro on the back side of each card and in the middle of each blank square on the story pages. Thus the activity can be reused as many times as needed.
Where do you store the ...
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Where do You store it? Where does the food go? Where do you keep the food? - Fridge, Freezer or kitchen cupboard? Great age-appropriate Life Skills activity for special education with real images! NO PREP, PAPERLESS, digital interactive PPT activity comes with interactive activity to practice identifying where common food items should be properly stored (food safety) after grocery shopping. This comes with: INTERACTIVE PPT for desktop (no internet needed) 24 Where Do You Store It? Interactive Questions Immediate positive reinforcement for correct answers, redirectiopositive reinforcement for correct answers, redirection for incorrect answers. Real Images! n for incorrect answers. Real Images!
6  Maths   Interactive Digital Activities for Special Education
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6 Maths Interactive Digital Activities for Special Education

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Distance Learning: Students can point the correct number or right amount or right quantity for each slide. Students can either use by opening on a computer or a device that has the power point downloaded. Included are 3 different activities with 10 activity slides each: Counting Ocean Habitats Up to 10 Woodland and Polar Habitat Up to 10(only 5 activity slides) Ocean Habitats up to 10 Also , included: 1: Counting by colour Jungle animals 1: Find the right amount activity 1: Addition Activity with desert animals Immediate positive reinforcement for correct answers, redirection for incorrect answers.
Good morning questions booklet routine widgit symbolised
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Good morning questions booklet routine widgit symbolised

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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.
''Walking through the jungle'' in widgit software and activities for SEN (SLD) learners
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''Walking through the jungle'' in widgit software and activities for SEN (SLD) learners

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A popular book that is enhancing the wild animals vocabulary, through listening, singing, reading and discussing with the help of the book ‘‘Walking through the jungle’’ by Stella Blackstone, illustrated by Debbie Harter and sung by Fred Penner. The resource includes: ppt ‘‘Walking through the jungle’’ story widgit symbolised Visuals to stick on the book Story mat Colourful semantics activity Building sentences activity Find the initial letter acivity all widgit symbolised! Enjoy!
The Colour Monster story and activities
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The Colour Monster story and activities

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‘The Colour Monster’ is here to teach children about feelings, as each beautiful colour leads to an emotion. It will also help children build understanding and empathy towards others, as in the story the emotions are attached to deep descriptions of how the little Monster feels inside and how he is able to cope: Here is a snippet of what each colour means in this story: YELLOW – HAPPY BLUE – SAD RED – ANGER BLACK – FEAR GREEN – CALM PINK – LOVE The Budle includes: A simplified version of the story in widgit a matching activity - Place the right jar and widgit colour symbol a sentence building activity The colour monster Maths - Interactive Digital Activity a document that includes images of the monster in the 7 different colours (you can print them and use them as puppets or decorate your class) Enjoy!
The first Christmas Story ppt and activities widgit symbolised
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The first Christmas Story ppt and activities widgit symbolised

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This festive Christmas Story PowerPoint for children is perfect for using during the build-up towards the Christmas holidays and will help to teach students about the story behind this exciting time of year. The Budle includes: a simplified version of the Christmas story in widgit a sentence building activity a comprehension activity widgit symbolised a sequencing worksheet Enjoy!
Colourful Semantics activity pack (22 pics) Level 5 (Subject, Verb, Object, Place, Describe) SLD
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Colourful Semantics activity pack (22 pics) Level 5 (Subject, Verb, Object, Place, Describe) SLD

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This is a Colourful Semantics activity set Level 5 (Subject-Verb-Object- Place -Describe) Colourful Semantics Level 5 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. Use this activity to help your children construct simple sentences. Colourful Semantics is a great 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 (10 in total), ‘what doing’ words (verbs) (11 in total) are yellow, ‘what’ words (26 in total) are green, ‘place’ words (17 in total) are blue and ‘describe’ words (10 in total). 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 and supports communication in general. 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, blue and purple 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.
Colourful Semantics activity pack (35 pics) Level 3 (Subject-Verb-Object) for SLD learners
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Colourful Semantics activity pack (35 pics) Level 3 (Subject-Verb-Object) for SLD learners

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This is a Colourful Semantics activity set Level 3 (Subject-Verb-Object). Colourful Semantics Level 3 is an approach can be used with children with a range of Speech, Language and Communication Needs. Use this activity to help your children construct simple sentences. Colourful Semantics is a great 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 (10 in total), ‘what doing’ words (verbs) (14 in total) are yellow, ‘what’ words (46 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. Please see below the sentences: The bear is eating the cake The boy is playing drums. The boy is cutting a banana The boy is cutting an apple The bear is reading a book. The girl is cutting a paper. The lady is washing a dog. The boy is eating a sandwich The boy is shopping bananas. The girl is eating an ice-cream. The boy is riding a bike. The baby is drinking milk. The man is reading a book. The monkey is eating a banana. The lady is giving a letter. The girl is playing with the ball. The man is giving a box. The monkey is eating a peanut. The girl is eating an apple. The boy is washing his face. The big is eating an apple. The lady is writing a letter. The girl is eating a cake. The boy is eating a bagel. The lady is eating an orange. The man is reading a newspaper. The lady is reading a letter. The girl is smelling a flower. The lady is drinking juice. The bay is drinking water. The lady is smelling a perfume. The baby is playing with the bricks. The man is cleaning the table. The lady is cleaning the table. The lady is riding a horse.
The tiger who came to tea:  story and activities widgit symbolised
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The tiger who came to tea: story and activities widgit symbolised

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A modern classic story of Sophie and her extraordinary teatime guest has been loved by millions of children since it was first published more than fifty years ago. The doorbell rings just as Sophie and her mummy are sitting down to tea. Who could it possibly be? What they certainly don’t expect to see at the door is a big furry, stripy tiger! The magic begins at teatime! The bundle includes: the story in widgit programme ppt a word mat a comprehension activity widgit symbolised Find the initial letter activity The tiger who came to tea counting activity a document that includes images of the characters (you can print them and use them as puppets or decorate your class) Enjoy!
Colourful Semantics activity pack (34 pics) Level 4 (Subject, Verb, Object, Place) for SLD learners
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Colourful Semantics activity pack (34 pics) Level 4 (Subject, Verb, Object, Place) for SLD learners

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This is a Colourful Semantics activity set Level 4 (Subject-Verb-Object- Place). 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. Use this activity to help your children construct simple sentences. Colourful Semantics is a great 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 (10 in total), ‘what doing’ words (verbs) (21 in total) are yellow, ‘what’ words (46 in total) are green and ‘place’ words (16 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 and supports communiction in general. 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. Please see the sentences below:
My Weekend News widgit Symbolised- ppt, Questions, answers for SLD Learners
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My Weekend News widgit Symbolised- ppt, Questions, answers for SLD Learners

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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.
The very hugry caterpillar - book and activities widgit symbolised
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The very hugry caterpillar - book and activities widgit symbolised

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Everyone loves Eric Carle and the Very Hungry Caterpillar! This adapted and interactive book is modified for the accessibility of all students. The bundle includes -the story ppt -the story in widgit programme ppt -a word mat -Building sentences activity widgit symbolised -What did the caterpillar eat? - sorting activity widgit symbolised -a comprehension activity widgit symbolised -Find the initial letter activity -The very hungry caterpillar counting activity Match the picrure with the word activity The life cycle of the butterfly activity Enjoy!
Colourful Semantics activity pack (34 pics) Level 2 for SLD learners
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Colourful Semantics activity pack (34 pics) Level 2 for SLD learners

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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.
''Elmer'' story and activities widgit symbolised for SLD  learners
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''Elmer'' story and activities widgit symbolised for SLD learners

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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! Read less
Who, What, Where - Colourful Semantics Cut-Up Sentences Activity for MLD learners
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Who, What, Where - Colourful Semantics Cut-Up Sentences Activity for MLD learners

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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.
All about Spring, story and activities pack all  widgit symbolised for SEN learners
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All about Spring, story and activities pack all widgit symbolised for SEN learners

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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