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.
Are you struggling to find age appropriate Teen SEN stories?
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‘‘Matt gets wise’’ is a book for young people with special educational needs (14-19) dealing with personal male hygiene.
As a teacher of children with autism, personal hygiene tasks are a high priority on the school daily timetable. Dedicating time to personal hygiene books and activities as part of a routine, every day, is a good method of ensuring the children have regular time to learn these important skills. This book and its activities are a great resource to teach the importance of:
washing hands
getting dressed with clean clothes
brushing teeth
washing face
using the shower
washing under arms and using deodorant
The pack includes:
1 PPP on the story Matt gets wise, with widgit symbols (SLD)
4 extension activities are included in this pack:
1:Writing task: Write up Andy’s advice to Matt - MLD level
2: Match the right statement from Andy’s advice with the right picture - SLD level
3: Connect the words with Pictures - SLD Level
4: Sequencing Story MLD, SLD Level
5: Fill the gaps MLD, SLD Level
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)
This Simple Sentence Scramble Worksheets (20 in total) is the perfect resource for teachers to help students build sentences and improve their writing.
Simply cut out the words at the bottom of the sheet and see if they can rearrange them from the scramble in the right order to form a sentence.
They can then use the handy guidelines to practise writing the sentence they’ve made.
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:
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.
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.
This Emotion Buidling Sentences and Sorting Activity is great for students with autism and special needs when learning emotions and facial expressions.
The pages must be printed on photo paper and laminated. Cut the cards out. Use soft velcro on the backside of each card and hard in the center of each blank space on the sorting boards.
This Simple Sentence Scramble Worksheets (20 in total) is the perfect resource for teachers to help students build sentences and improve their writing.
Simply cut out the words at the bottom of the sheet and see if they can rearrange them from the scramble in the right order to form a sentence.
They can then use the handy guidelines to practise writing the sentence they’ve made.
This is a full lesson about Materials/Recycling (Science) or you can use it for PSHE as well.
It contains:
2 ppt stories about recycling:
‘Recycling is fun’ in widgit
Recycle’ in widgit
2 activities for each story
Activity for story ‘Recycling is fun’ - different materials sorting and recycling
Widgit visuals to label the boxes.
Comprehension Quiz for ‘Recycle’ story
Building sentences- I see polar, desert and woodland habbitats activity
Forming sentences is very important for SEN learners. This activity uses real-life pictures for easy recognition of common objects and sight words as sentence starters.
This is also an activity to practice identifying the attributes of what, the number, and the color of a group of items. There are 10 groups of animals. The student will match the corresponding picture to answer the questions - What? How Many? What Color? There are 2 ways to use this file:
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 colors, numbers, and pictures. There are 4 pages that serve as boards for the types of answers (“what?”, “how many?”, “what color?”). Use soft velcro n the backside of each card and hard velcro on each square containing the questions. Thus the activity can be reused as many times as needed.
Sentence Building for Special Education using widgit visual program.
Forming sentences is very important for SEN learners. This activity uses real-life pictures for easy recognition of common objects and sight words as sentence starters.This is also an activity to practice identifying the attributes of what and the number of a group of items.
There are 10 groups of items. The student will match the corresponding picture to answer the questions - How Many? What?
There are 2 ways to use this activity:
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 colors, numbers and pictures. There are 2 pages that serve as boards for the types of answers ( “how many?”,“what?”). Use soft Velcro on the back side of each card and in the middle of each blank square on the boards and hard velcro on each square containing the questions. Thus the activity can be reused as many times as needed.
The bundle includes a collection of 5 different cooking lessons to inspire your food technology lessons.
You will find:
5 ppt for each recipe (explaining the recipe of the day).
5 Widgitsymbolised cooking recipes that the kiddos can use during the cooking proccess.
-red sause spaghetti
banana bread
cheese twists
-oreo fudge
-shortbread
A great way to promote independence in food technology sessions.
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.
‘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!
Special needs students love to learn about comunity workers and their roles with pictures and hands on learning!
Forming sentences for SEN learners can be challenging. Using real-life pictures for easy recognition of Community Helpers, students love learning to read and form sentences.
17 cards EASY-to-assemble and use in your classroom
IEP Goal Alignment:
Given sight words, action words with pictures, and pictures of community helpers with guided placement.
Building sentences for special education items found around the home using real life pictures and widgit program.
20 different task slides included.
Forming sentences for our young SEN learners can be challenging.
Using real-life pictures for easy recognition of common household objects, students love learning to read and form sentences. Practice naming household items and their purpose with easy sight word practice.
I see …summer fruits activity
Forming sentences is very important for sen learners. This activity uses real-life pictures for easy recognition of common objects and sight words as sentence starters. This is also an activity to practice identifying the attributes of what, the number, and the color of a group of items. There are 10 groups of summer fruits. The student will match the corresponding picture to answer the questions - What? How Many? What Color? There are 2 ways to use this file:
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 colors, numbers, and pictures. There are 3 pages that serve as boards for the types of answers (“what?”, “how many?”, “what color?”). Use hook and loop dots on the backside of each card and in the middle of each blank square on the boards as well as on each square containing the questions. Thus the activity can be reused as many times as needed.
I see … animal habitats activity
Forming sentences is very important for SEN learners.
This activity uses real-life pictures for easy recognition of animal habitats and sight words as sentence starters. This is also an activity to practice identifying the attributes of what, the number, and the color of a group of animals . There are 10 groups of animals.
The student will match the corresponding picture to answer the questions - What? How Many? What Color? There are 2 ways to use this file:
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 colors, numbers, and pictures. There are 3 pages that serve as boards for the types of answers (“what?”, “how many?”, “what color?”). Use hook and loop dots on the backside of each card and in the middle of each blank square on the boards as well as on each square containing the questions. Thus the activity can be reused as many times as needed.
Teach your students some interesting facts about animal habitats. There are lots of different habitats included with so many amazing animals to learn about.
3 different ppt stories about Woodland, Polar and Desert habitats both in widgit symbols (SLD) and
3 ppt stories (Woodland, Polar and Desert habitats) with words (MLD).
Activity 1: Animals and Their Habitats Matching Activity (woodland VS Polar Animals)
Activity 2: writing task for the three stories Woodland, Polar and Desert animals
Activity 3: Animal Habitat Quiz
Activity 4: Colourful Semantics activity for Woodland animals
Activity 5: counting Habitats (Maths activity)