I love to share activities, resources, classroom management, behavior management and, sensory ideas for autism and special education teachers and classrooms.
I love to share activities, resources, classroom management, behavior management and, sensory ideas for autism and special education teachers and classrooms.
This is a bundle of autism / spec ed resources from my store that will be great to help you set up your new autism / special education classroom or just to update it and introduce some new strategies. Each resource comes with instructions so you are able to implement them and use them in the best possible way in your classroom!
We use these within our classroom every year and they work wonders with our students, so I am able to personally recommend you these resources and know that you will find them just as helpful in your classroom!
This bundle includes;
♦ I Am Working For Board
This reward system is a great way to keep students focused and engaged on their task, they'll have a visual to show what they are working for and also how much more they have to do to achieve it!
♦ Good Morning Greeting Book
Have you ever found it so hard to get students ready in the mornings to start their work day? These Good Morning books are a great way to fix a morning routine to help ease your students into their day.
♦ Good Afternoon Greeting Book
Afternoons can be so crazy busy, especially if your students have been outside running around! Settling back down to do work can be a really difficult task, so these Good Afternoon books are a great way to help your students regain their focus and settle back into their work routine. Having this take place every afternoon will introduce a solid routine for your students and they will know what to expect.
♦ Year Round Editable Newsletters
If your classroom is as busy as any other Spec Ed class, then you'll find having time to keep families up to date with all the goings on can be really hard work! These editable newsletters are themed year round and can be so quick to put together. It also means that you can email AND print to send home to families just in case! It's a great way to add in little reminders too!
♦ Conversation Prompt Cards
It can be really hard for students to try and build conversations and relationships with others in their class. These conversation prompt cards are a great way to encourage students and help them think up new conversation ideas to help improve their social skills.
♦ Communication Book
If you have students who are non verbal or have limited speech then these communication books will be a great asset in your class. Once put together, they can be hung up or stored away in a place where the student is able to learn to independently get their book when needed. Having difficulties communicating can be a huge trigger for some students, so having this communication aide set up for them will be a huge help to them and can also help to improve their independence!
♦ Behavior/Behaviour Story
A lot of students learn best through visuals and stories. This visual story book is a great way to help students think about their behaviour/behavior and how it will affect others around them.
♦ Class Timeline/Schedule Cards
Transition and wondering what is coming next can be a huge burden for some students and get them very anxious. By providing a timeline of the day, students are able to visually see what is happening that day, what's coming next and what they can expect. It will reduce the 'unknown' for them and also the fear that comes with that.
♦ Supporting Autism & Spec Ed Walkthrough
This 66 page walkthrough is packed full of literally everything you can imagine to help make your class more suitable for the students. There are so many great ideas including visuals, reward systems, symbols, sensory toys, behaviour/behavior management, iPad apps and so much more.
♦ Home to School Liaison Book
The contact between Home/School is vital to help your students with their day to day life. It will keep both of you informed with how the student is doing and if there are any major things going on in their life at the moment. It will also help you to build a stronger relationship with those involved with the home life of the student. This will help you all work together to help the student get the most out of their life and to really help push and motivate them to achieve their best.
♦ Traffic Light Behaviour/Behavior Posters
This traffic light system has proved to be a big hit in many classrooms. You can set it up whichever way you like - it could be for behaviours/behaviors or noise levels etc. It's a great way for students to visually see what you are thinking and how the classroom/student are doing right now.
♦ First, Then Visual Boards & Symbols
This pack comes with a variety of different boards in 2 different levels as well as over 60 symbol cards! This is a great resource to help your students cope and to provide them with a visual of what is expected over a short period of time - also to encourage them should a 'choice' or 'reward' activity be coming up.
♦ Hitting / My Hands Social Story
This social story is a great read for students who may need some support with hitting. A lot of children hit others as a sign of frustration, anxiety, pain etc. - sometimes we may even find no explanation for why they are hitting but hopefully this social story will help reduce hitting behaviours.
♦ Biting / My Mouth Social Story
This social story is a great read for students who may need some support with biting. A lot of children bite others as a sign of frustration, anxiety, pain etc. - sometimes we may even find no explanation for why they are biting but hopefully this social story will help reduce biting behaviours.
Keep families and carers up to date with your classroom with these editable newsletters that can be used all year long. Coming in a range of different styles, your families will love how engaging and informative these newsletters are.
Editing
These newsletters can be edited in PowerPoint or Keynote.
The editable parts are where you can add edit text, photos, shapes etc. onto the templates.
You will not be able to lift any images. This is to protect my work as a teacher-author and the work of fantastic clip artists.
How to Use
Edit using PowerPoint or Keynote - the newsletters are separated into different files to make them easier to use.
Print out the newsletters to send home with students.
Or, save the newsletter as a JPEG or PDF and then email home to your students families/carers. This will save on your ink and can make communicating with home easier.
Newsletters are a great way for you to stay in touch with families of the students in your class as well as being able to share what you have been doing in class, what is coming up and any important reminders.
Includes all months of the year and an End of Year/Graduation special.
This resource contains 47 different task cards where students have to follow the instructions at the top of the task card to complete the action. Comes in 2 different types; find the food to feed the monkey and feed the food to a colour/color monkey. Comes in col and b/w option for your preference.
These task cards are a fun way to have your students work on a variety of different skills such as; reading and following instructions, colour/color recognition, food recognition etc.
The best part about these task cards are that students can self-correct or change their answer without worrying about the answer they previously chose.
Appropriate for American and British/Canadian etc. classrooms - color/colour.
This resource contains 20 different color by number (colour by number) grids which create the picture of animals when completed!
Students will love these activities and solving who the mystery animal is hidden in the grid.
Also includes finished pictures so that you can see what they look like as an example and to use as an answer key to check students work.
This is a great way for students to work on their number and color / colour recognition skills.
Animals included are;
• bear
• chicken
• cow
• elephant
• fox
• giraffe
• lion
• monkey
• penguin
• sheep
• snake
• turtle
• giraffe standing
• butterfly
• spider
• dog
• rabbit
• frog
• owl
• bee.
This resource is suitable for both American and British etc spellings e.g.) gray and color vs grey and colour.
At the bottom of each page are instructions for students to colour / color certain numbers in certain colours / colors. At the end of the activity students are able to write what animal they can see at the bottom of the page.
This adapted morning work binder is an engaging and hands-on way to start each morning with your autistic students. Using the morning binder each day will help your students get into a routine where they come in, settle down and they are ready to work.
Many of our students may struggle with transition in the mornings, so by providing this work book as a consistent routine in their daily morning routine, it will help them to settle quicker and be prepared to work.
The books are editable so each student can have their own personalized morning binder.
The document comes as a Keynote and PowerPoint file. You can add on different wording and add pictures of your student etc. but please note you will not be able to add/change/extract any form of clipart/imagery/text from this document. This is to protect our fabulous clip artists and myself as a teacher-author.
This book comes in 2 levels;
Level 1 - Students match images or symbols to each of the pages.
Level 2 - Students match images or symbols and words to the pages. They can also use a dry-wipe pen and write their answers to make it harder again.
What’s Included?
Level 1 Morning Work Binder
Accompanying Walkthrough to Put Together the Level 1 Morning Work Binder
Level 2 Morning Work Binder
Accompanying Walkthrough to Put Together the Level 2 Morning Work Binder
What’s Included in the Books?
The books include;
Front Cover
Me and My Name
How Do I Feel?
My School
What Day Is It?
What Months Is It?
What Season Is It?
How’s the Weather?
What Should I Wear?
Finished
Front Cover
You can either add your students name using a text box and then print out, or have students write their name once printed.
You can also put a white shape square over the image on the front cover and then insert an image of your student if you want their photo on the front cover.
What Should I Wear
This comes with 4 different options. You only need to print one per book used. 2 boy options, and 2 girl options are included.
Students use the clothing pieces included to dress the person appropriately for how the weather is outside.
Build Up
If you feel there are too many pages to start for your students, use less pages to start.
First, just use ‘Me and My Name’ ‘What Day Is It?’ ‘How’s the Weather?’ and 'Finished’
Then, as students progress with this, start adding more of the pages in.
Finished
My students love these books - but they love the finished page too.
Having the finished page is a visual way to show your students that they have completed the activity. And that’s the end of the book.
All symbols are included in this resource. You can also add your own too.
This is a great visual resource to help motivate and encourage students to complete their task(s) or work in order to gain tokens to receive their reward.
Students collect a token for each task they complete/minute worked (you choose), once they have achieved all the tokens they get to have their choice activity.
It is important for you to offer children the choice of what they want once they have finished their work so that they are motivated to achieve it at the end!
This resource comes with two different options of each board (one with a yellow box for choice to go inside, one with black box).
It also comes in 4 different difficulty levels.
♦ Level 1: 3 tokens then reward
♦ Level 2: 4 tokens then reward
♦ Level 3: 5 tokens then reward
♦ Level 4: 10 tokens then reward
If you are unsure of what your student’s level of working is, I would start at the bottom and use level 1 then build your way up, if you feel your student is capable of working a large amount before achieving their reward then use your professional opinion on where to start them.
To put together;
♦ print out the board that you want to use
♦ laminate it and attach velcro bits in each box
♦ cut out and laminate the choice activities provided (or provide your own) and add velcro to the back of them so that they will stick to the box on the page
♦ cut out and laminate your choice of reward coupons (3 different options provided) and also velcro these.
You’re done!
This is a great resource for encouraging students to work and also to improve how long they are able to work for or how many activities they can complete!
This resource comes with some choice symbols, if you feel there is something that you desperately need please feel free to contact me through the ‘Ask a question’ tab as a request and I will try my best to add it.
The symbols included so far are;
♦ ball pit
♦ blocks
♦ game (2 options)
♦ book
♦ bubbles
♦ car
♦ computer
♦ lego
♦ iPad
♦ music (2 options)
♦ outside
♦ playground
♦ puppets
♦ relax
♦ sand
♦ time out
♦ choice
♦ toys
♦ train
♦ walk
♦ trampoline
♦ water play.
This bingo pack is the perfect addition to your feelings and emotions activities. Students will love working on recognizing different feelings and being able to match these to their bingo board.
There are 22 bingo boards included in this pack, which will allow you to have up to 22 players taking part at once with this activity. You can also use this with smaller group activities, or even at 1:1 work stations.
What’s Included?
22 Bingo Boards
Mini Image and Word Feelings Flashcards
Mini Word Feelings Flashcards
Feelings Image and Word Flashcards
Bingo Cover Ups
How to Use?
Hand out the bingo boards to players.
Provide players with a set of bingo cover ups or manipulatives.
Use any of the 3 types of flashcards to call out the feelings. If students have the same feeling on their board, they cover it up.
The first student to cover all their feelings on their board shouts ‘Bingo’ and they are the winner.
Other Uses
Although this is a bingo pack, the activities included can be used in a range of others ways too, such as;
Discussion. Look at the flashcards. Think of a reason that the boy/girl may feel like that.
Questions. Lay out some different flashcards. “If I bought you an ice cream, but then you dropped it on the floor, how do you think you would feel?” And the student points to or selects one of the feelings on the flashcards.
Matching. A simple matching game. Match the flashcards to the images on the bingo boards. .
This activity is a fun and engaging way to help students work on and understand different feelings and emotions.
Instructions
Print out the bingo boards, flashcards and bingo cover ups that you’ll be using. Print out a set of bingo cover ups for each child. Decide which flashcard you will use and then print.
Laminate the bingo boards. Cut up and laminate the flashcards and bing cover ups then, laminate them.
These cards are perfect to use as a class timeline/schedule to improve your classroom management, organisation and help students to visually see what they will be doing throughout the day and preparing themselves.
There is a wide range of different symbol cards available, if you require something that is not included please contact me and I will add this.
This resource will really help keep your students focused on their task at hand while helping them to transition to the next activity but also knowing what to expect throughout the day. By having a fixed timeline in front of them students will become more aware of what is expected of them through the day - this will especially help with students who may get anxious about the unknown.
The symbols included so far;
♦ English
♦ Literacy
♦ Math
♦ Numeracy
♦ Geography
♦ History
♦ PE
♦ ICT
♦ IT
♦ Computers
♦ iPads
♦ Choice
♦ Assembly
♦ Music
♦ Outside
♦ Trip
♦ Park
♦ Walk
♦ Playtime
♦ Dinner
♦ Snack
♦ Home
♦ School
♦ Guided Reading
♦ Art
♦ Library
♦ Drama
♦ Party
♦ Birthday
♦ Celebration
♦ Science
♦ Colouring
♦ Coloring
♦ Writing
♦ Language Arts
♦ Field Trip
♦ French
♦ Bus
♦ Spelling
♦ Group Work
♦ Gym
♦ Lunch
♦ Reading
♦ Story
♦ Cookery
♦ Bathroom
♦ Playground
♦ Breakfast
All children, regardless of differing needs, can have huge benefit from having a class timeline/schedule.
This is a growing bundle and as requests are made, more symbols will be added to this pack that are appropriate for timeline/schedule use.
This is a Good Morning greeting book, used every morning with individual students, but you can also change this to use it as class/group activities if that is what suits you more.
This resource is great to get students settled in the morning, into a routine and ready to work! It comes differentiated to suit different abilities.
It covers;
♦ Name
♦ Day
♦ Feeling
♦ School
♦ Weather
♦ What to wear
These are great life skills to practice on a daily basis to get your students becoming more and more independent. It also encourages them to pay close attention to current events i.e - what day is it, how are they feeling, how's the weather, what should they wear in this weather.
This is also a great way for students to work on their feelings, helping them to understand how they are feeling. It will also enable students to understand what clothes are appropriate to wear in different types of weather.
There are brief instructions on each page as well as an instruction page at the start of the document to help you set this up and use to it's best potential in your classroom.
★ This has been updated on 26/10/15. The file now comes in 2 parts - a new updated version which is a powerpoint & keynote file. ★
CVC Spelling Frame Task Cards
This download includes spelling frame task cards related to CVC words.
There is a total of 30 different task cards included and they come in col and b/w option.
I recommend cutting out each of the task cards individually and then laminating them so that they will be stronger and longer lasting. This will also mean you can use them over and over with students using a dry wipe pen.
The CVC words included are:
♦ car, cat, dam, ham, pan, wag
♦ bed, den, hen, net, pen, wet
♦ dig, fin, hit, lid, pig, pit
♦ dog, fox, hop, log, mop, top
♦ bun, cub, gum, hut, mud, sun
Contains 30 task cards, 15 pages.
This resource contains a Good Afternoon Work Book / Greeting Book that is a great activity to use on a daily basis with your student(s). This book will help students to settle down and get ready to focus for their afternoon work. Many students may struggle with the transition in the afternoons, especially after playtimes, so by providing this work book as anchor in their daily afternoon routine, it will help them to settle quicker.
It is individualised so each student can have their own copy.
The document comes as a keynote or powerpoint file.
You can add on different wording and add pictures of your student etc. but please note you will not be able to add/change/extract any form of clipart/imagery/text from this document. This is to protect our fabulous clip artists and myself as a teacher-seller.
This is a harder, newer version of my Good Afternoon greeting book. This one encourages students to be able to write their answers (you can also add text to it for them to overwrite if they are not yet at the level of independent writing) but continue to also choose symbols for the answer.
All symbols are also included at the back of the page, you will need to add some of your own, i.e pictures of staff etc
A walkthrough is also included to explain how to use the greeting book to it's best potential.
The questions that this greeting book ask are;
♦ my name
♦ how do I feel?
♦ where do I live?
♦ when is my birthday?
♦ how's the weather?
♦ what should I wear?
This resource contains 7 different, short story, sequencing jigsaws. Students simply read the short story then use the information that they have read to figure out which order to place the image into the jigsaw.
All the jigsaws comes in b/w option and col option for your preference.
The stories are;
* St David's Day (Welsh celebration 1st March)
* St Patrick's Day
* The Ugly Duckling
* Barry the Bug (and his Spring walk)
* Life cycle of a caterpillar
This resource contains 7 different, short story, sequencing jigsaws. Students simply read the short story then use the information that they have read to figure out which order to place the image into the jigsaw.
All the jigsaws comes in b/w option and col option for your preference.
The stories are;
★ I jump out of bed and rush to my daddy, “Happy Father’s Day!” I shout. I jump onto his bed and hand him the mug that I bought him. On the bottom of his bed I hang the bunting of ties that I made. Daddy says he loves them, he picks me up into the air and puts me on his shoulders!
★ Me and my friends are talking about what we love about our dads. I love it when my dad carries me on his shoulders, Dave loves when his dad cooks a bbq. Alicia loves when she can just spend time with her dad, and Alice loves watching her dad rock her baby sister to sleep.
★ Today I’m at a pool party. When I arrive, I run straight for the water slide, and slide all the way down! I can see Dave holding some water bombs, then he throws a green one at me, splashing all over me. I hurry and pick up a red water bomb to throw back.
★ Me and my grandma have been making a summer to do list. First, we are going to go camping. Then, we are going to drive all the way down to the beach so I can go surfing! Then, finally, we are going to go to a hotel and relax in the sun.
★ My teacher asked me to name 4 things that remind me of Summer. I said the ocean is 1st, because we always go to the beach in the Summer. Then, a crab, because we try to find them at the beach. Then, there’s ice cream - the best cold treat! And, finally, of course, the sun!
★ It’s the first day of Summer, so dad is cooking us a bbq. First, I have to put the table cloth on our table, then dad starts to put food on the bbq to cook. I put on a special apron and hat so that I can be dad’s assistant chef. Finally, once the food is all cooked, I get to eat a cheeseburger!
★ We’re going to the beach today! Mom says I have to look for the beach sign, then we know we have arrived! When we arrive, I look up to see the sun shining, it’s very bright and hot! Mom puts an umbrella in the sand so we have some shade. Then, she helps to bury me under all the sand!
This resource contains a 22 mini page simplified version of the story of Noah's Ark from the Bible.
Each mini page, is half an actual page size, meaning you cut each page in half. I recommend laminating each page individually and then binding together to make a book - it'll also make it stronger and longer lasting for you.
It has been simplified into a short story, with bright, eye-catching graphics to keep students engaged.
This download comes in colour/color or black and white option.
Perfect for a special needs/autistic class or pre-k/k. This resource is a great way for you introduce a bible story into your teaching.
This resource contains an animal themed adapted / sentence building book that is a great way to encourage students to pay close attention to detail and be able to build sentences from what they can see.
This pack comes complete with matching symbols for you to put together as an adapted book / sentence building book. The sentence structure follows ' I see a dog ' ' I see a zebra ' etc. Students have to build the sentence and look at what animal they can see to match the sentence to the page.
There are 21 different animals included.
The symbols come on a separate page. I recommend laminating the pages with empty boxes and pictures on then binding into a book. Cut out the symbol boxes individually and laminate. You can either have these spread out on a board/table for students to choose from or stick them muddled up on the back of the page in front for students to choose from.
Brilliant for building sentences with children who need symbols for prompts. Also great for non-verbal students.
If you like this symbol book, you may like to view my Animal Symbol Book Sentence Building bundle, which includes 4 sets of sentence building books about animals, you can find it here.
Animals included are:
♦ bear
♦ bird
♦ bug
♦ butterfly
♦ cat
♦ caterpillar
♦ dog
♦ duck
♦ elephant
♦ fish
♦ fox
♦ lion
♦ monkey
♦ mouse
♦ octopus
♦ owl
♦ parrot
♦ pig
♦ spider
♦ turtle
♦ zebra
This resource contains a behaviour / behavior management symbol support story that is a great resource to introduce and encourage behavior / behaviour management with yours students.
This social story is 22 page story on behaviour/behaviors.
It comes with a choice of 3 different covers (my helping story, behaviour management, behavior management).
The story is a walkthrough of different things that students may do if they get angry/sad and how you/they can help calm.
Each page comes with a descriptive image/symbol.
I recommend printing each page individually, laminating and then binding together a book so that it can be used for future/prolonged use.
The pages included are as follows;
♦ I am happy when I get to do things I like
♦ I get sad if I have to do things I don't like
♦ Sometimes, I get angry if I have to do something I hate
♦ I may get angry if something doesn't go my way
♦ When I'm angry I don't understand how to cope
♦ I might cry
♦ I may have a tantrum
♦ I may throw things across the room
♦ I may scream really, really loud
♦ I may make a mess
♦ I may hurt myself
♦ If I hurt myself I can get more upset
♦ I may hurt someone
♦ I must remember to be kind to others
♦ If I hurt someone else, they may get upset
♦ My teacher can help me if I am angry or upset
♦ I can go to a quiet area to help me relax
♦ I can blow 5 big, deep breaths
♦ I can go for a walk
♦ It is OK to ask for help
♦ Soon, I will be happy again!
This resource contains 14 different, no prep writing prompt worksheets linked to the month of April. These worksheets are great time fillers and a great way to encourage students to use their imagination and work on their creative writing skills.
All the worksheets comes in b/w option and are no prep - simply print and go.
The worksheets contain an image with the start of a sentence at the top of the worksheet with writing lines underneath for students to finish the sentence.
This resource contains a 31 mini story book following the simplified story of David and Goliath from the Bible.
Each mini page, is half an actual page size, meaning you cut each page in half. I recommend laminating each page individually and then binding together to make a book - it'll also make it stronger and longer lasting for you.
It has been simplified into a short story, with bright, eye-catching graphics to keep students engaged.
This download comes in colour/color or black and white option as well as British and American spellings i.e armor/armour.
Perfect for a special needs/autistic class or pre-k/k and a great way to introduce the Bible stories into your teaching.
This resource contains 5 different puzzles / habitats. These puzzles are a great way for you to introduce and reflect upon animal habitats in your teaching.
Simply cut out each of the jigsaw pieces and laminate (this will keep them strong and longer lasting and students match the animals/objects to the correct habitat.
Habitats included are:
♦ desert
♦ ocean
♦ arctic
♦ rainforest
♦ pond
Each puzzle comes with 4 animals/nature piece. Each puzzle piece has an image and the name of that image below it.
A fun activity that is a great way to introduce or work on animal habitats.
The word to picture matching activities are a fantastic resource for any classroom, although especially with non-verbal students. It can help to encourage and promote reading and recognition of vocabulary related to the theme of The Little Red Hen. This resource is a great strategy to encourage students to read the words that they can see, but also to be able to understand that they can link the word to an actual image,
Many students may learn to just read words but not understand the meaning behind them, this will help to work with students on working towards achieving this skill.
Instructions on first page of how you can use this resource to it's best potential within your classroom.
This resource will be great for group work, speech sessions, 1:1 activities. english/literacy sessions, vocabulary work and farm activities.
This resource includes 2 different word to picture matching activities.
Comes in col or b/w option