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Literacy for early childhood
St Patrick's Day Initial Letter Task Cards
This activity is a fun, interactive and engaging way for your students to work on their initial sound and letter skills while celebrating St Patrick’s Day. Students need to look at the image on the task card and the word underneath, but with the initial letter missing.
Students need to work out what the missing initial sound / letter is and choose this from 3 different options on the task card. There are 20 different task cards included in this pack, and these will be a great addition to your literacy centers.
Your students will love working on their literacy skills with these fun and engaging St Patrick’s themed task cards. I recommend laminating all of the task cards included. This will make them stronger, longer lasting and reusable in the future.
Instructions
Print out the task cards.
Cut and laminate the task cards.
Provide your students with dry wipe pens or clothing pegs for your students to select their answers.
These task cards fit perfectly into photo storage boxes - making it easy for you to stay organised and keep all the pieces together.
Letter Formation, St Patrick's Day
These hands-on task cards are a fun and engaging way for your students to work on their letter formation and recognition skills. The task cards included are for all letters of the alphabet from A to Z and includes both upper and lower case letters.
Each task card contains letter formation for both the upper and lower case letter, along with 2 shamrocks to add some St Patrick’s Day fun to this activity.
Your students will love working on their letter formation skills with these hands-on and engaging task cards. I highly recommend laminating each of the individual task cards so that they will be stronger, longer lasting and reusable in the future.
Instructions
Print the task cards.
Cut out and laminate each of the individual task cards.
Lay the task cards out in your literacy centers and provide your students with a dry wipe pen for them to form the letters of the alphabet.
These task cards fit perfectly into photo storage boxes - making it easy for you to stay organised and keep all the pieces together.
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Autism Independent Work Tasks for March
These independent work tasks are perfect to use throughout March with your special education students, pre-k or kindergarten students. Your students will love working on a range of different skills with these tasks that can be used independently. Each work task included fits into the photo storage boxes, making it easy for you to keep all of your months tasks together.
There is a wide variety of task cards included in this pack and I recommend switching through them throughout the month to mix up your students skills and learnings.
There is a mixture of Spring and St Patrick’s Day activities included in this pack. They include;
Spring Rhyming Raindrops
Spring Same or Different
Spring Matching Halves Puzzles
Spring Counting Task Cards
Wh Questions for Speech Therapy Task Cards - Spring
St Patrick’s Day 2D Shape Matching - 2 Levels
St Patrick’s Day Fine Motor Skills Task Cards
St Patrick’s Day Initial Letter/Sounds Task Cards
St Patrick’s Day Letter Formation Task Cards
Matching Upper and Lowercase Letters - St Patrick’s Day
Find the Missing Word in the Sentence - St Patrick’s Day
More or Less? St Patrick’s Day
St Patrick’s Day Counting Task Cards
St Patrick’s Day - What’s the Missing Number? Task Cards
Ten Frame Task Cards - St Patrick’s Day
Color Recognition Task Cards - Using Pom Poms
Wh Questions for Speech Therapy Task Cards - St Patrick’s Day
Your students will love working on these task bin activities independently, and having the chance to introduce some Spring and St Patrick’s Day fun into your learning.
3 Little Pigs Comprehension Worksheets
These reading comprehension passages and questions worksheets are an engaging addition to your literacy centers and 3 Little Pigs activities. There are 6 different reading comprehension activities included in this pack.
Each reading comprehension activity comes with 1 reading passage worksheet, and 1 matching questions worksheet. Students read through the reading passage and then answer the matching questions on the questions worksheet.
All of the comprehension passages are linked to the theme of the 3 Little Pigs.
This activity is great for students to be able to read a passage and recall details from it, answering relevant questions.
Comes in black and white for ink friendly printing.
The images are eye catching and appropriate for young students who will find them engaging.
3 Little Pigs Maze Worksheets
These 3 Little Pigs maze worksheets are a fun and engaging way for your students to work on their attention to detail and fine motor skills. There are 5 different levels of mazes for you to differentiate for your student’s individual abilities.
All of the maze worksheets included require no prep. Print them out and they are ready to hand out to your students. The worksheets all come in black and white for ink friendly printing. These maze worksheets will be the perfect addition to your 3 Little Pigs unit. It is also a great way for your students to work on their problem solving skills.
Students have to work their way through the maze to the end. If you want to save on your ink, print out one copy of each worksheet and laminate it. That way the worksheets can be re-used in the future in your literacy centers with a dry-wipe pen.
Presidents Day Write the Room American Presidents
Make Presidents Day fun and engaging with this write the room activity. Get your students moving and hunting for the different American Presidents cards. This is a great addition to your Presidents Day activities, as well as giving your students the chance to work on their reading and writing skills and learning about different American Presidents.
The recording sheets come in 2 different options of numbers 1-10 and 1-20 as well as in 2 different ability levels - plain boxes to write the answers in or boxes with handwriting lines for students to write in.
Each image is linked to the theme of American Presidents and all images can be seen in the preview of this resource. This will be an excellent addition to your American Presidents topic and expand your students knowledge while allowing them to move around.
You can hide these flashcards anywhere you want to get the students active and moving about. Some example are:
♦ Around the classroom
♦ Outdoor play area
♦ In a tough tray
♦ In a sensory tub
etc.
This is a great way to keep students motivated and engaged while working on their vocabulary and spelling skills.
Missing Words in a Sentence, St Patrick's Day
Get your students working on their sentence skills with these engaging and hands-on missing word in a sentence task cards. These task cards are the perfect addition to your literacy centers and St Patrick’s Day activities. Students need to read the sentence on the task card and then work out which of the 3 options of missing words fits in the sentence. This is a great way for you to work on sentence structure and how to build appropriate sentences with your students.
Your students will love working on their sentence skills with these hands-on and engaging task cards. I highly recommend laminating each of the individual task cards so that they will be stronger, longer lasting and reusable in the future. There are 20 different task cards included, and all come in the theme of St Patrick’s Day.
Instructions
Print all of the pages included.
Cut out and laminate each of the individual task cards.
Lay the task cards out in your math centers and watch your students work on their sentence skills, identifying the missing words in the sentences.
These task cards fit perfectly into photo storage boxes - making it easy for you to stay organised and keep all the pieces together.
3 Little Pigs Word Search Activities
These 3 Little Pigs word search worksheets are a great addition to your 3 Little Pigs activities. There are 2 levels of word searches included in this pack with a total of 11 different word search worksheets.
This resource includes;
♦ Level 1 word search worksheets x 7 (8 words)
♦ Level 2 word search worksheets x 4 (16 words)
♦ Level 1 and Level 2 blank word search worksheets for students to make their own 3 Little Pigs theme word searches
♦ Vocabulary poster with all the words from the word searches
♦ Answer keys
These worksheets come in black and white for ink friendly printing and are appropriate for all spelling types - UK/US etc. The worksheets require no prep, simply print and hand out. These are great time fillers, literacy centres, or even to be left on sub days. They provide a different way for students to pay close attention to detail and encourages the recognition of letters and vocabulary.
St. David's Day Word to Picture Matching Activity
This St David’s Day word to picture matching activity is a great way for students to work on their vocabulary and image recognition skills.
The word to picture matching activities are a fantastic resource for the autism classroom, especially with non-verbal students to track their reading and understanding skills.
This resource will allow you to be able to monitor if your students are able to recognise and understand different words and link them to the appropriate picture. Many students may learn to just read words but not understanding the meaning behind them, this will help to work on that.
This resource includes 3 different activities boards in total. The first page in the PDF is the instructions page to help you use these to their best potential.
Comes in col AND black/white option for your printing preference.
Preposition Adapted Books
This activity pack includes sentence building / adapted books to work on prepositions. These books are great for a Spec Ed or Autism classroom.
This download comes with two different books for you to choose from; symbols with words or just words.
I recommend laminating each page and binding together as a book. I would also recommend using velcro for symbols/words and the boxes on each page just so that the symbols/words don't move around when students place them on page but that is personal preference.
You will need to cut out the words/symbols individually and laminate them too, it can be time consuming but once made is a great, valuable resource to be kept for long term use.
Comes with 20 different pages/activities.
St. David's Day Comprehension
These comprehension worksheets are a fun and engaging addition to your literacy lessons and St David’s Day celebrations. There are 5 different comprehension activities included in this pack.
Each activity comes with 1 reading passage page and 1 questions page. There is a short amount of information provided on each page and then 4 questions on another page - you can see examples in preview/thumbnail pictures.
All stories are linked to the Welsh celebration of St. David’s Day. They have been simplified into short passages/stories.
This is great for students to be able to read a passage and recall details from it, answering relevant questions.
It is related to St. David’s Day to give a twist on the usual comprehension activities.
Comes in black and white for ink friendly printing.
The images are eye catching and appropriate for young students who will find them engaging.
Conversation Prompt Task Cards Social Skills
This resource includes 104 different prompt cards to help and encourage students to make conversation.
Conversation is a hard skill for our students to master, especially when trying to start one. These prompt cards help to break the ice and encourage your students to feel more supported and confident when starting a conversation. A conversation helps to build relationships between students or even staff. It's also a great way for you to find out more about your students in class - especially if you have many shy students who usually struggle to keep a conversation flowing.
The cards are bright and fun to keep students engaged throughout the activity.
The prompt cards come in b/w and col. option as well as with UK and US spelling options.
These are fantastic for prompting students to start conversations with each other, especially for morning work, social skills groups etc.
CVC Code Word Cracker
This resource includes individual code word cracker worksheets for each of the CVC groups i.e a,e,i,o,u. Each page contains 12 different CVC puzzles for students to use the code at the top to work out the CVC word.
You will be able to find answer keys on the bottom of the PDF file to use for your marking, or even for students to use for self assessment. This is a great way for students to work on their CVC words in a fun, yet challenging activity.
Each page has a different code cracker at the top so that students can not memorise what letter each code is. This is also a great activity to encourage students to pay close attention to detail.
Each worksheet comes in b/w for ink friendly printing.
CVC Medial Sound Task Cards
These task cards use CVC images, there are 30 task cards in total.
They come in black and white and color/colour option for your preference.
I recommend cutting out and laminating each task card individually to make them stronger and prolong the use of them.
There are 3 choices of answers on the bottom for students to select the correct answer of the medial sound of the CVC word.
You can choose whether you want students to draw a circle around the correct answer with a wipe-off marker or put a peg on it etc.
These are an excellent addition to your classroom to see if students are able to recognise initial sounds in different aspects.
Contains 30 task cards.
CVC Mini Work Books
Mini booklets for each of the vowels - a,e,i,o,u. Each medial vowel has their own mini booklet, containing 6 different images/words.
These mini booklets are a great way for your students to work on their CVC words, while making it more interactive and fun for them. Simply staple/put together the pages so that it makes a mini book, then have the students color/colour in the CVC images, read the words and then write them. There is a writing prompt on the bottom of each page for students to overwrite.
This is a great way to introduce CVC words to your students. Once the mini booklets are completed they can either be put on display, sent home or kept close for your students to look back on and use throughout the year when needed to look back over and use for different CVC activities.
Contains 10 pages - 4 mini pages to 1 standard page.
CVC Read and Highlight
This resource contains 11 different CVC Read and Highlight no prep worksheets. These worksheets are a great way for students to work on their vocabulary, reading and attention to detail skills.
Students simply read through the passage and use the box on the bottom to see what CVC words they need to find and highlight them.
This is a great and different way to help students with their CVC/word recognition.
It comes with instructions on the first page and all pages come as black and white for ink friendly printing.
This is a no prep activity - just print and hand out!
You can either use these as paper worksheets to hand out to students or you can laminate them so that they can be re-used throughout the year.
Contains 11 pages.
CVC Word to Picture Matching
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 CVC words. 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.
CVC Words included are;
♦ a - car, cat, dam, ham, pan, wag
♦ e - bed, den, hen, net, pen, wet
♦ i - dig, fin, hit, lid, pig, pit
♦ o - dog, fox, hop, log, mop, top
♦ u - bun, cub, gum, hut, mud, sun
Comes in col and b/w option for your preference.
Contains 15 pages.
CVC Activities: Word Search
This CVC themed word search pack contains 2 different levels of word search worksheets, blank word search worksheets for students to make their own CVCword searches and also a vocabulary poster that includes all the vocabulary used through all the word searches.
This resource includes;
♦ Level 1 word search worksheets x 13 (8 words)
♦ Level 2 word search worksheets x 5 (16 words)
♦ Level 1 and Level 2 blank word search worksheets for students to make their own CVC theme word searches
♦ Vocabulary poster with all the words from the word searches
♦ Answer keys
These worksheets come in b/w for ink friendly printing and are appropriate for all spelling types - UK/US etc. The worksheets require no prep, simply print and hand out. These are great time fillers, literacy centres, or even to be left on sub days. They provide a different way for students to pay close attention to detail and encourages the recognition of letters and vocabulary.
CVC NO PREP Worksheet Bundle
This CVC Worksheet pack consists of 88 no prep printable worksheets. There are a wide range of different no prep worksheets included in this pack all related to the theme of CVC while working on different skills.
It includes:
♦ CVC handwriting practice - 25 pages
♦ Missing letters worksheet - 5 pages
♦ Scrambled letters worksheet - 5 pages
♦ Word to picture matching worksheet - 11 pages
♦ Code Word Cracker - 5 pages
♦ Word Search - 27 pages
♦ Read & Highlight - 10 pages
Contains 88 pages of activities in total.
St David's Day Word Search
This St. David’s Day themed word search pack contains 2 different levels of word search worksheets, blank word search worksheets for students to make their own St. David’s Day word searches and also 1 vocabulary poster that includes all the vocabulary used through all the word searches.
This resource includes;
♦ Level 1 word search worksheets x 8 (8 words)
♦ Level 2 word search worksheets x 4 (16 words)
♦ Level 1 and Level 2 blank word search worksheets for students to make their own St. David’s Day theme word searches
♦ Vocabulary poster with all the words from the word searches
♦ Answer keys
These worksheets come in b/w for ink friendly printing and are appropriate for all spelling types - UK/US etc. The worksheets require no prep, simply print and hand out. These are great time fillers, literacy centres, or even to be left on sub days. They provide a different way for students to pay close attention to detail and encourages the recognition of letters and vocabulary.