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.
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 training pack is a great resource for you to use to gain new ideas and strategies to use within your classroom for your Autism and Special Education students. There are over 80 pages included and all are packed with information, strategies and programmes that you can use within your classroom.
Just some of the pages included are;
♦ Autism - Be Aware
♦ What is Autism?
♦ What is Fragile X?
♦ How is Autism Diagnosed?
♦ What Should I Look For?
♦ I Need Help!
♦ Transition
♦ Visuals
♦ Behaviour Management
♦ Toileting
♦ Eating
♦ What Can You Put Into Place?
♦ Training to Attend
♦ Social Stories
♦ Incorporating Sensory
♦ Music Therapy
♦ Using Your 5 Senses
♦ Sensory Stories
♦ Sensory Breaks
♦ Sensory Toys
♦ Cooking
♦ Parental Communication
♦ iPad Apps
♦ Reinforcers - When and What to Use.
♦ Work Stations
♦ Communicating
♦ Adapted Work Activities
♦ On a Budget
♦ Famous Faces
♦ Helpful Links
This resource is perfect for any professional who is working with students diagnosed with Autism or with Special Needs. The pack is full of different activities, strategies, information and programs that you can introduce into your learning environment and provide a positive learning approach for your student(s).
This woodland forest themed lesson plan and pack of resources is perfect for your woodland forest theme and gives you a variety of different areas of learning, subjects and skills to cover.
In this pack you will find;
♦ Woodland Forest themed lesson plan ideas sheet.
Giving ideas of what lessons to teach for each subject including what books to read, math activities, geography activities, science activities, sensory activities, english activities and art/design activities.
♦ Geography Resource
Mini beast hunt worksheets x2
♦ English/Literacy Activities
Capital letters and lower case letters worksheets - find twigs and leaves outside and use them to build the letters. Mini beast fact file - with a blank page for you to make your own mini beast as well as 10 ready made mini beasts for students to colour/color in and write about. Spelling cards - for students to work on their spelling skills either by writing the name of the animal or by using the letter cards to spell with.
♦ Math Activities
2D shape jigsaws - match the 2D shape to the 2D shaped leaf. Add and subtract frogs on a log - use real frogs or the printable ones included. Count the spiders leg - use black pipe cleaners to make legs on the spider or draw them on. Put the amount of hedgehogs on the log - counting activity to either use toys on or the printable hedgehogs included. Counting ladybirds on the leaf - either use toys or the printable ladybirds to count with. Number puzzles - put the numbers in the correct order on the bottom of the puzzles to build the woodland animal image. Sequencing jigsaw - read the story of growing a plant and match the pictures into the correct order.
♦ Role Play Area
Includes bunting, footprint posters, movement posters, vocabulary posters, word cards and signs.
♦ Science Activities
Animal habitat puzzles - match the animals to their habitat. Design the perfect habitat worksheet. Life cycle puzzles - follows he sequence of the life cycle for the animals included.
♦ Sensory Session
Ideas on how you can make a woodland forest themed sensory session.
♦ Sensory Stories
Ideas on how you can make some stories more sensory for the woodland forest theme.