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 adapted book is a great way for students to work on their sequencing skills but also to give them the knowledge and understanding of how to brush their teeth - a very important life skill which can be hard for many of our students to master. This adapted book goes through each of the steps required to brush teeth.
Students have to read - or be read - the sentence on top of the page and then find the matching symbol that matches the sentence. This a great way to start having your students understand what they are reading/listening to and taking in the information. Students can then process this information and find the relevant symbol that fits with what is happening in the current situation.
Comes in col and b/w option for your preference.
This is great for a Spec Ed or Autism Classroom / working with Spec Ed or students with Autism. It’s a great way to encourage students to pay close attention to deal, become more familiar with sentence structure and symbols.
The vocabulary is suitable for American or British classrooms. (Color, Colour etc.)
This visual communication fan is a great way for your students to communicate with you where they are in pain. Many of our students struggle to explain where they feel pain - or where is hurting. This visual, symbol supported fan is going to help aide with the communication barriers - and get your student the help that they need.
There are a range of different body parts included on this fan, and you can put them together with a keyring and keep on you at all times. Visuals are very important to your autism and special education students. By having them portable, and on the go, it means that we can continue our communication outside of the classroom.
Body parts included are;
arm
head (boy)
head (girl)
ear
eye
finger
foot
knee
ankle
leg
lips
nose
shoulders
stomach
teeth
thumb
toe
tongue
hand
wrist
I highly recommend cutting out each of the individual fan pieces, laminating them then hole punching the bottom and attaching to a keyring so that they can be used to show students quickly and easily.
These task cards are a great way to encourage students to work on understanding what is good or not good for their body. It will give students a visual opportunity to see - and read - the different scenarios and if they are good or not for our body. This is a great way for us to help our students understand how they can look after their body.
This resource contains 12 different task cards giving students the choice of two options - yes or no - for if the item is good for our bodies or not. I.e ‘Is smoking good for your body?’. Each task card contains one clear image to go with the question.
The task cards are in col and b/w option for your printing preference.
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 so that they can be used again. Or, work on fine motor skills at the same time and have your students use a clothing peg to choose their answer.
This activity includes 10 different write the room flashcards. All images and vocabulary are linked to the theme of Dental Health.
There is a recording sheet and answer key included for students to take part in this activity, they can then either self mark their answers - or you can with ease with the answer key provided.
All flashcards are ready numbered. An answer key is provided on the bottom page of the recording sheet PDF file.
Instructions are also included on first pages of each PDF document. This download includes two PDF documents - one for the flashcards and one for the recording sheets.
I would highly recommend laminating each of the individual flashcards so that they will be stronger, therefore longer lasting.
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 practising their vocabulary and spelling skills.
This resource contains 8 different rooms for students to match the appropriate furniture/object images into.
The rooms included are:
♦ Bedroom
♦ Bathroom
♦ Dining Room
♦ Garage
♦ Kitchen
♦ Living Room
♦ Office
♦ Yard
If you have any recommendations for any additional sorting pages you would like added please don't hesitate to contact me.
There are 6 items to match for each card. I recommend laminating each of the individual parts so that they will be stronger, longer lasting and re-usable.
This resource is a great way for students to work on their sorting and categorising / categorizing skills. They are used with an Autism Classroom on a regular basis which have really helped to develop the children's understanding. As well as suiting an Autism Classroom, this resource would also benefit Spec Ed Classrooms and even Mainstream Classrooms.
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.
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 and different parts of the body. 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/body part.
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 even science / body themed activities.
Vocabulary includes;
♦ ear
♦ eye
♦ face
♦ eyebrow
♦ elbow
♦ foot
♦ hair
♦ hand
♦ lips
♦ moustache
♦ nose
♦ teeth
♦ tongue
♦ ankle
♦ knee
♦ hand
♦ fingers
♦ head
♦ bone
♦ finger nail
♦ belly button
♦ brain
♦ cheek
♦ chin
♦ skeleton
♦ skull
etc.
Contains 14 different activity boards.
3 adapted books linked to the theme of Five Senses. 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 3 books are suitable for 3 different levels of learners, they are a great way to differentiate between learners individual abilities and work on learning about their five senses. You can see the different books in the preview option.
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 Five Senses.
This resource contains an interactive book where students have to read and follow directions to dress the children. The book comes in two different difficulty levels to suit your individual students needs.
Children have to read the instructions at the top of the page - or you read to them and then they have to select the correct clothing that the children want to wear and dress the children!
I highly recommend following the instructions included on the first page of the PDF to put this activity together as a book for your students to follow.
This comes in black and white and color/colour option to suit your preference.
There are 5 different activities included and each activity comes in 2 different difficulty levels = 10 potential activities.
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 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 an adapted work folder that targets a range of different life skills for your students.
★ 20 activities included. ★
This resource also comes with 2 different levels for the grocery shopping/payment pages as well as girl/boy options for some pages.
This resource comes in both spelling options of colour and color. It comes with different PDFs to suit a variety of different countries (mainly because of the coins used when purchasing food in the grocery store)
This resource is suitable for AUSTRALIAN students.
The activities included in this folder are;
♦ Writing/Spelling name
♦ Doing the laundry
Putting dirty washing and detergent into the washing machine, transferring clothes from washing machine onto the washing line, then off the washing line and into the basket
♦ Matching socks
♦ Putting items away - kitchen v garden
♦ Grocery shopping - 2 different levels
Finding items on your shopping list, taking them off the shelves and into your trolley. Then paying for them at the end by choosing the correct coins from your purse.
♦ Recycling - recycle cardboard into the green bin and food into the white bin
♦ Building a face - boy and girl option
♦ Label the body
♦ Brush teeth
Put pen on the teeth then rub off with toothbrush
♦ Wash face
Put pen on face, then wipe off with baby wipes/wet cloth
♦ Wash hands
Put pen on hands, then wipe off with baby wipes/wet cloth
♦ Dressing kids for weather - cold/hot option boy/girl option
♦ Set the table
Put fork, knife, spoon and plate into correct places on the table
If there are any life skills activities that you feel could be added to this folder, then please get in touch and I'll be happy to try and help you.
This resource contains an adapted work folder that targets a range of different life skills for your students.
★ 20 activities included. ★
This resource also comes with 2 different levels for the grocery shopping/payment pages as well as girl/boy options for some pages.
This resource comes in both spelling options of colour and color. It comes with different PDFs to suit a variety of different countries (mainly because of the coins used when purchasing food in the grocery store)
This resource contains UK coins.
The activities included in this folder are;
♦ Writing/Spelling name
♦ Doing the laundry
Putting dirty washing and detergent into the washing machine, transferring clothes from washing machine onto the washing line, then off the washing line and into the basket
♦ Matching socks
♦ Putting items away - kitchen v garden
♦ Grocery shopping - 2 different levels
Finding items on your shopping list, taking them off the shelves and into your trolley. Then paying for them at the end by choosing the correct coins from your purse.
♦ Recycling - recycle cardboard into the green bin and food into the white bin
♦ Building a face - boy and girl option
♦ Label the body
♦ Brush teeth
Put pen on the teeth then rub off with toothbrush
♦ Wash face
Put pen on face, then wipe off with baby wipes/wet cloth
♦ Wash hands
Put pen on hands, then wipe off with baby wipes/wet cloth
♦ Dressing kids for weather - cold/hot option boy/girl option
♦ Set the table
Put fork, knife, spoon and plate into correct places on the table
If there are any life skills activities that you feel could be added to this folder, then please get in touch and I'll be happy to try and help you.
This resource contains an adapted work folder that targets a range of different life skills for your students.
★ 20 activities included. ★
This resource also comes with 2 different levels for the grocery shopping/payment pages as well as girl/boy options for some pages.
This resource comes in both spelling options of colour and color. It comes with different PDFs to suit a variety of different countries (mainly because of the coins used when purchasing food in the grocery store)
This resource is suitable for AMERICAN students.
The activities included in this folder are;
♦ Writing/Spelling name
♦ Doing the laundry
Putting dirty washing and detergent into the washing machine, transferring clothes from washing machine onto the washing line, then off the washing line and into the basket
♦ Matching socks
♦ Putting items away - kitchen v garden
♦ Grocery shopping - 2 different levels
Finding items on your shopping list, taking them off the shelves and into your trolley. Then paying for them at the end by choosing the correct coins from your purse.
♦ Recycling - recycle cardboard into the green bin and food into the white bin
♦ Building a face - boy and girl option
♦ Label the body
♦ Brush teeth
Put pen on the teeth then rub off with toothbrush
♦ Wash face
Put pen on face, then wipe off with baby wipes/wet cloth
♦ Wash hands
Put pen on hands, then wipe off with baby wipes/wet cloth
♦ Dressing kids for weather - cold/hot option boy/girl option
♦ Set the table
Put fork, knife, spoon and plate into correct places on the table
If there are any life skills activities that you feel could be added to this folder, then please get in touch and I'll be happy to try and help you.
This resource contains an adapted work folder that targets a range of different life skills for your students.
★ 20 activities included. ★
This resource also comes with 2 different levels for the grocery shopping/payment pages as well as girl/boy options for some pages.
This resource comes in both spelling options of colour and color. It comes with different PDFs to suit a variety of different countries (mainly because of the coins used when purchasing food in the grocery store)
This resource is in English but contains EUROS for grocery store.
The activities included in this folder are;
♦ Writing/Spelling name
♦ Doing the laundry
Putting dirty washing and detergent into the washing machine, transferring clothes from washing machine onto the washing line, then off the washing line and into the basket
♦ Matching socks
♦ Putting items away - kitchen v garden
♦ Grocery shopping - 2 different levels
Finding items on your shopping list, taking them off the shelves and into your trolley. Then paying for them at the end by choosing the correct coins from your purse.
♦ Recycling - recycle cardboard into the green bin and food into the white bin
♦ Building a face - boy and girl option
♦ Label the body
♦ Brush teeth
Put pen on the teeth then rub off with toothbrush
♦ Wash face
Put pen on face, then wipe off with baby wipes/wet cloth
♦ Wash hands
Put pen on hands, then wipe off with baby wipes/wet cloth
♦ Dressing kids for weather - cold/hot option boy/girl option
♦ Set the table
Put fork, knife, spoon and plate into correct places on the table
If there are any life skills activities that you feel could be added to this folder, then please get in touch and I'll be happy to try and help you.
This resource contains an adapted work folder that targets a range of different money skills for your students.
★ 23 activities included. ★
This resource also comes with different levels for many of the pages.
This comes with UK coins and notes.
All the activities in this work folder are for your students to work on money life skills, to learn the value of money and also to recognise different coins/notes. Money is an important skill for our students to work on and this adapted folder will provide us with another way to work on this with our students.
Some of the activities included are;
• Matching coins
• Matching notes
• Matching heads to tails on coins
• Matching pice tags to coins
• Which costs more
• Shopping and paying for groceries
• Paying for toys
• Paying for clothes
• Paying for groceries
• Paying for food in a restaurant
• Counting money in piggy bank
• Putting together coins/notes to make a price
This resource contains an adapted work folder that targets a range of different money skills for your students.
★ 23 activities included. ★
This resource also comes with different levels for many of the pages.
This resource contains USA currency.
All the activities in this work folder are for your students to work on money life skills, to learn the value of money and also to recognise different coins/notes. Money is an important skill for our students to work on and this adapted folder will provide us with another way to work on this with our students.
Some of the activities included are;
• Matching coins
• Matching notes
• Matching heads to tails on coins
• Matching pice tags to coins
• Which costs more
• Shopping and paying for groceries
• Paying for toys
• Paying for clothes
• Paying for groceries
• Paying for food in a restaurant
• Counting money in piggy bank
• Putting together coins/notes to make a price
This resource contains an adapted work folder that targets a range of different money skills for your students.
★ 23 activities included. ★
This resource also comes with different levels for many of the pages.
This resource contains Canadian currency.
All the activities in this work folder are for your students to work on money life skills, to learn the value of money and also to recognise different coins/notes. Money is an important skill for our students to work on and this adapted folder will provide us with another way to work on this with our students.
Some of the activities included are;
• Matching coins
• Matching notes
• Matching heads to tails on coins
• Matching pice tags to coins
• Which costs more
• Shopping and paying for groceries
• Paying for toys
• Paying for clothes
• Paying for groceries
• Paying for food in a restaurant
• Counting money in piggy bank
• Putting together coins/notes to make a price
This resource contains an adapted work folder that targets a range of different money skills for your students.
★ 23 activities included. ★
This resource also comes with different levels for many of the pages.
Comes in Australian currency.
All the activities in this work folder are for your students to work on money life skills, to learn the value of money and also to recognise different coins/notes. Money is an important skill for our students to work on and this adapted folder will provide us with another way to work on this with our students.
Some of the activities included are;
• Matching coins
• Matching notes
• Matching heads to tails on coins
• Matching pice tags to coins
• Which costs more
• Shopping and paying for groceries
• Paying for toys
• Paying for clothes
• Paying for groceries
• Paying for food in a restaurant
• Counting money in piggy bank
• Putting together coins/notes to make a price
This adapted daily skills book is a great way for your students to work on their daily skills in an interactive and engaging manner. With over 60 skills included in this work book, you’ll be able to assess your students understanding and capability on a wide range of skills. It also comes with recording sheets for you to use to monitor and assess students over a period of time.
The activities included can be found below;
Pencil control - follow from left to right
Pencil control - follow in the lines
Write your name
Match colours (6)
Match colours (11)
Match colours to clipart images
Match colours to real images
Match colours to names
Match real colour images to symbols
Match lower case letters
Match upper case letters
Match upper case to lower case letters
Match images to initial letters
Match CVC words to images
Match CCVC words to images
Match CVCE words to images
Read sight words
Match 2D shapes
Match 3D shapes
Match 2D images to 2D shapes
Match 3D images to 3D shapes
Match 2D shapes to names
Match 3D shapes to names
Match numbers 0-20
Match 0-10 to names
Match 0-20 to names
Match images to numbers 0-10
Match images to numbers 0-20
Trace numbers 0-10
Finish the patterns
Create a pattern
Sort big and small
Match coins
Match coins to prices
Match clocks
Match clocks to time
Create the clock
Write on the watch
Sort food and clothes
Sorting colours
Matching clothes
Copy the clothing
Sort dentist v doctor equipment
Matching days of the week
Ordering days of the week
Matching months of the year
Ordering months of the year
Cleaning teeth
Washing face
Feeding the monkey
Matching money in the piggy bank
Aanswer wh- questions
Answering days of week questions
Matching 1/2s
Colour sorting dogs
Colour sorting penguins