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3 Little Pigs Maze Worksheets
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3 Little Pigs Maze Worksheets

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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
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Presidents Day Write the Room American Presidents

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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
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Missing Words in a Sentence, St Patrick's Day

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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 Worksheets, Fine Motor Skills
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3 Little Pigs Worksheets, Fine Motor Skills

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These fine motor skill worksheets are a great addition to your 3 Little Pigs unit and to get your students working on their fine motor skills. With 12 different worksheets included in this pack, your students will have plenty of opportunities to work on their fine motor skills. These no prep worksheets are a fun and engaging addition to your literacy centers and to expand learning on your 3 Little Pigs unit. They require no prep, just print them out and they are ready to go. However, if you want to save on your ink, just print one copy of each worksheet and laminate them. This way, students can re-use them over time in your literacy centers.
3 Little Pigs Word Search Activities
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3 Little Pigs Word Search Activities

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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
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St. David's Day Word to Picture Matching Activity

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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.
St David's Day Yes / No Questions
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St David's Day Yes / No Questions

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This resource contains 22 different task cards giving students the choice of two answers - yes or no - to the question at the top. Each task card contains 1 question, 1 image and 2 answers. The task cards are all in the theme of St David’s Day. (The Welsh holiday on March 1st) These task cards come in col and b/w option for your preference. They are a great way to encourage students to pay attention to detail, the image that they are looking at and to answer appropriately. I recommend cutting out each card individually and laminating so that they will be stronger and longer lasting. Students can complete with a dry wipe pen or a peg so that they can be used again.
Preposition Adapted Books
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Preposition Adapted Books

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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.
Sight Words - Word Picture Matching
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Sight Words - Word Picture Matching

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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 sight 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. 18 different activities boards in total. The first page in the PDF is the instructions page to help you use these to their best potential. Sight words include are: ♦ in ♦ find ♦ can ♦ down ♦ blue ♦ here ♦ run ♦ jump ♦ play ♦ red ♦ look ♦ little ♦ go ♦ up ♦ all ♦ small ♦ help ♦ yellow ♦ black ♦ where ♦ one ♦ I ♦ funny ♦ who ♦ you ♦ two ♦ away ♦ we ♦ three ♦ me ♦ ate ♦ no ♦ get ♦ good ♦ brown ♦ four ♦ he ♦ eat ♦ now ♦ like ♦ new ♦ warm ♦ on ♦ ran ♦ ride ♦ please ♦ say ♦ our ♦ under ♦ there ♦ white ♦ she ♦ want ♦ they ♦ yes ♦ after ♦ give ♦ ask ♦ fly ♦ ten ♦ her ♦ over ♦ open ♦ old ♦ stop ♦ him ♦ take ♦ before ♦ walk ♦ think ♦ buy ♦ thank ♦ call ♦ first ♦ found ♦ fast ♦ five ♦ cold ♦ green ♦ sing ♦ off ♦ pull ♦ sit ♦ read ♦ sleep ♦ work ♦ wash ♦ wish ♦ tell ♦ write ♦ your ♦ clean ♦ drink ♦ draw ♦ carry ♦ cut ♦ eight ♦ hurt ♦ hot ♦ grow ♦ fall ♦ laugh ♦ light ♦ show ♦ seven ♦ six ♦ together ♦ small
Fishing for CVC Words
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Fishing for CVC Words

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This resource contains a fun CVC game where students have to use a fishing rod to catch the matching CVC words on the fish. You will need to purchase/have a fishing rod to play this game. It is your personal preference how you use the rod with the fish, you can stick a paperclip to the back of the fish to use with a magnetic fishing rod or you can use a paper clip that sticks out past the fish mouth and bend up to be used with a grabber fish rod - as shown in the images. The fish each have a CVC word on them. At the bottom of the PDF file are flashcards with the images of CVC words on them. Students have to catch the fish that matches the CVC image on the flashcard that they have. It comes in b/w or col option for your preference. This is a fun activity that will keep your students engaged and focused while learning their CVC words. It contains a total of 4 different 'fish' images for each vowel - a,e,i,o,u. Simply cut out the fish and flashcards, laminate so that they will be stronger and longer lasting and you have a great game ready to pull out whenever needed!
St. David's Day Comprehension
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St. David's Day Comprehension

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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.
Feelings / Emotions Sentence Building Pack, Adapted Books
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Feelings / Emotions Sentence Building Pack, Adapted Books

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This pack includes 4 different sentence building books all related to Feelings / Emotions. All books come in b/w and col option. This is great for a Spec Ed or Autism Classroom / working with Spec Ed or students with Autism. The books include; ♦ How does the boy feel? - 1 box answer ♦ How does the girl feel? - 1 box answer ♦ How do the children feel? - 2 box answer ♦ How do the children feel? - 4 box answer Each book comes with instructions included on the first page on how you can put this book together to get the best possible use out of it. The vocabulary is suitable for American and British/Canadian etc classrooms. Eg - colour and color. These books are great to help students build up and work on their sentences. It encourages students to select the correct words(symbols) to match the picture they are looking at as well as being able to place them in the correct order to build an appropriate sentence. All images/vocabulary is linked to the theme of Feelings/Emotions.
CVC Bingo Game
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CVC Bingo Game

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This resource contains 5 different bingo boards, meaning up to 5 players can play at once. The activity is great to take part with small or larger groups and students get the option of word only or pic only boards to choose from. This bingo game is a fun way for students to play group games together and reflect upon their CVC words. This resource also includes flashcards for you to use to accompany the instruction/cvc word you are calling out - your choice if you would like to use them. Comes as black and white for ink friendly printing. Instructions included on first page for you to get the most out of this activity. I would recommend laminating each board individually for them to be stronger and longer lasting but this is personal choice.
Conversation Prompt Task Cards Social Skills
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Conversation Prompt Task Cards Social Skills

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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.
Fine Motor Skills Task Cards, Pre Handwriting
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Fine Motor Skills Task Cards, Pre Handwriting

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These fine motor skill tracing task cards are a great way to encourage students some engaging fine motor skill practice. This pack includes 53 different task cards. Each task card includes one type of fine motor/pre handwriting skill. Each page comes with 4 task cards on, I recommend printing them out and cutting them individually. Laminate them to prolong the use of them - you will be able to use them over and over. These are great to help students improve their handwriting/fine motor skills/pen control. Set them up ready then store them away, ready to pull out whenever you need them. These are great time fillers or extras for your literacy centres.
CVC Code Word Cracker
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CVC Code Word Cracker

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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
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CVC Medial Sound Task Cards

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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 Read and Highlight
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CVC Read and Highlight

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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
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CVC Word to Picture Matching

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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
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CVC Activities: Word Search

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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.