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.
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 The Little Red Hen. 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.
This resource includes 2 different word to picture matching activities.
Comes in col or b/w option
This pack includes 8 different sentence building / adapted books all related to Halloween theme. All books come in b/w and col option but 2.
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 detail, become more familiar with sentence structure and symbols.
The books include;
♦ What? Object - one symbol
♦ What? Costume - one symbol
♦ How many objects? - two symbols
♦ What col - two symbols col only
♦ Easy prepositions - one symbol
♦ Harder prepositions - three symbols
♦ Full sentence prepositions - six symbols
♦ Col & Counting book - five symbols col only
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 or British classrooms. (Color, Colour etc.)
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 the Halloween.
This resource contains 42 different animals in a sentence building / adapted book theme. Students have to look at the image on the page and use the symbol to build an appropriate and matching sentence. Brilliant for building sentences with children who need symbols for prompts. Also great for non-verbal students.
The symbols come on a separate page. I recommend laminating the pages with empty boxes and pictures on then binding into a book. Cut out the symbol boxes individually and laminate. You can either have these spread out on a board/table for students to choose from or stick them muddled up on the back of the page in front for students to choose from.
Instructions are included on first page. This book contains real life photographs of baby animals.
I see zoo animals, symbol book, sentence building, animal photographs
A great sentence building activity which comes complete with symbols.
17 animals included.
The symbols come on a separate page. I recommend laminating the pages with empty boxes and pictures on then binding into a book. Cut out the symbol boxes individually and laminate. You can either have these spread out on a board/table for students to choose from or stick them muddled up on the back of the page in front for students to choose from.
Brilliant for building sentences with children who need symbols for prompts. Also great for non-verbal students.
Instructions are included on first page.
This book is real life photographs of zoo animals.
This download includes 6 different spelling jigsaws for each vowel - a,e,i,o,u.
Comes in b/w and col option for your preference.
Vocabulary includes:
♦ car
♦ cat
♦ dam
♦ ham
♦ pan
♦ wag
♦ bed
♦ den
♦ hen
♦ net
♦ pen
♦ wet
♦ dig
♦ fin
♦ hit
♦ lid
♦ pig
♦ pit
♦ dog
♦ fox
♦ hop
♦ log
♦ mop
♦ top
♦ bun
♦ cub
♦ gum
♦ hut
♦ mud
♦ sun
Students simply look at the image/word on the top jigsaw box then use the individual letters to build the jigsaw to spell the corresponding CVC word.
Contains 30 pages.
This resource includes jigsaw puzzles and no prep worksheets where students have to recognise and find the matching items that go together and practise their fine motor skills by drawing over the lines. These activities are a great way for students to work on understanding life skills and working on what goes together.
The jigsaws involve students matching two puzzle pieces together with the correct matching image.
Comes in col and b/w option for your preference.
There are 44 mini jigsaw puzzles included in this resource, 11 matching worksheets and 11 fine motor worksheets.
This resource contains 14 different, no prep writing prompt worksheets linked to the month of May. These worksheets are great time fillers and a great way to encourage students to use their imagination and work on their creative writing skills.
All the worksheets comes in b/w option and are no prep - simply print and go.
The worksheets contain an image with the start of a sentence at the top of the worksheet with writing lines underneath for students to finish the sentence.
This pack covers;
♦ Mother's Day
♦ Teacher Appreciate Week
♦ Children's Day (Japan)
♦ Cinco De Mayo
♦ Misc. Spring
This resource contains a 35 mini page simplifie story of Jonah and the Whale, from the Bible.
Each mini page, is half an actual page size, meaning you cut each page in half. I recommend laminating each page individually and then binding together to make a book - it'll also make it stronger and longer lasting for you.
It has been simplified into a short story, with bright, eye-catching graphics to keep students focused and engaged with the story.
This download comes in colour/color or black and white option.
Perfect for a special needs/autistic class or pre-k/k. It also provides you with a great and engaging way to introduce the Bible into your teaching/classroom.
This resource contains 10 different 2D Shape pages for students to match different regular objects to the matching shapes.
Shapes included are:
♦ Circle
♦ Hexagon
♦ Octagon
♦ Oval
♦ Pentagon
♦ Rectangle
♦ Rhombus
♦ Square
♦ Trapezoid
♦ Triangle
Some shapes come with 9 shape images to match, others come with fewer - ranging between 5-9.
You can either use this as a re-usable activity where you laminate it all and use velcro or it can be used as a worksheet for students to cut and stick.
★ Comes in b/w and col option. ★
A great way to see if students are able to relate different objects to the community helper.
Appropriate for American and British/Canadian etc. classrooms.
This download consists of 19 different Growth Mindset reflection / question cards. These are are a great way to have your students work one a 1:1 basis or in groups at the end of the day or a session to be able to reflect back on their performance and help work towards Growth Mindset.
I highly recommend laminating each of the individual question cards so that they will be stronger and longer lasting.
These cards will provide you with a great opportunity to encourage Growth Mindset within your classroom / work room.
This resource contains a Sentence Building / Adapted Book liked to the theme of Community Helpers. This resource comes complete with symbols.
This resource includes 18 different community helpers.
The symbols come on a separate page. I recommend laminating the pages with empty boxes and pictures on then binding into a book. Cut out the symbol boxes individually and laminate. You can either have these spread out on a board/table for students to choose from or stick them muddled up on the back of the page in front for students to choose from.
Brilliant for building sentences with children who need symbols for prompts. Also great for non-verbal students.
This pack includes 10 different sentence building / adapted books all related to St Patrick's Day theme. This is a great resource to use with students who may have autism / spec ed needs. The books come in differing abilities so that you can differentiate for individual abilities.
6 books come in b/w and col option, 4 books come only in col option.
The books include;
♦ What col Leprechaun? - two symbols
♦ How many objects? - two symbols
♦ How many col Leprechauns? - three symbols
♦ I can see objects - four symbols
♦ I can see col Leprechauns - five symbols
♦ I see counting col Leprechauns - five symbols
♦ Easy prepositions - one symbol
♦ Harder prepositions - three symbols
♦ Full sentence prepositions - six symbols
♦ What object? - one symbol
♦ Verbs - one symbol
♦ What doing? Verbs - one symbol (fit into sentence)
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 or British classrooms. (Color, Colour etc.)
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 used to St Patrick's Day.
This pack includes 6 different sentence building books all related to 3 Little Pigs theme. 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;
♦ What? Object - one symbol
♦ How many objects? - two symbols
♦ I can see objects - four symbols
♦ Easy prepositions - one symbol
♦ Harder prepositions - three symbols
♦ Full sentence prepositions - six symbols
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 or British classrooms. (Color, Colour etc.)
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 the 3 Little Pigs.
This pack includes 6 different sentence building / adapted books all related to the theme of Chinese New Year. These books are great for a Spec Ed or Autism Classroom / working with Spec Ed or students with Autism. It helps them pay closer attention to detail of what they are seeing, and slowly start to explain what they can see through symbols, and start to build sentences.
The books include;
♦ What? object book - one symbol
♦ What? zodiac animal book - one symbol
♦ Zodiac animal book - 'I can see a monkey' - four symbols
♦ Prepositions - one symbol (end of sentence)
♦ Prepositions harder - three symbols (animals/objects and position)
♦ Prepositions hardest - full sentence, six symbols
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.
Every book comes in color/colour or black and white option.
The vocabulary is suitable for American or British classrooms. (Color, Colour etc.)
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 used to Chinese New Year.
This download includes an editable version of the traffic light behaviour system. This system is a great way for behaviour / behavior management in your classroom and giving students a visual.
Simply print out, laminate and put on display.
This download comes with 3 options; powerpoint editable, keynote editable and PDF non-editable for those who just want to print what is already available.
As well as coming with an editable option, there are also pre made versions of this included which you can just print.
There are instructions on the first page included on how you can put together and use this resource in your classroom.
This resource contains 14 different, no prep writing prompt worksheets linked to the month of March. These worksheets are great time fillers and a great way to encourage students to use their imagination and work on their creative writing skills.
All the worksheets comes in b/w option and are no prep - simply print and go.
The worksheets contain an image with the start of a sentence at the top of the worksheet with writing lines underneath for students to finish the sentence.
This resource contains a 35 mini page simplified story of Joseph and his Colourful / Colorful Coat from the Bible.
Each mini page, is half an actual page size, meaning you cut each page in half. I recommend laminating each page individually and then binding together to make a book - it'll also make it stronger and longer lasting for you.
It has been simplified into a short story, with bright, eye-catching graphics. (This download comes in colour/color or black and white option).
This comes in American AND British spelling i.e color/colour.
Perfect for a special needs/autistic class or pre-k/k and to introduce a bible story into your setting.
This activity contains 20 different color / colour by number grids which create the picture of different animals once completed. Addition goes up to 10. This resource is a great way for students to work on their math/addition skills.
Students will love being able to work out the mystery animals hiding in the puzzles.
Also includes finished pictures so that you can see what they look like as examples and use as an answer key to check students work.
Animals included are;
♦ bear
♦ chicken
♦ cow
♦ elephant
♦ fox
♦ giraffe
♦ lion
♦ monkey
♦ penguin
♦ sheep
♦ snake
♦ turtle
♦ giraffe standing
♦ butterfly
♦ spider
♦ dog
♦ rabbit
♦ frog
♦ owl
♦ bee
Comes with American and British spellings
i,e gray and color vs grey and colour.
At the bottom of each page are instructions for students to colour / color certain numbers. At the end of the activity students are able to write what animal they can see at the bottom of the page.
The numbers in the grid are sums (of addition up to 10).
Students have to work out the answer to the sum and then color/colour it the correct color/colour.
This pack includes 9 different sentence building / adapted books all related to Spring theme. All books come in b/w and col option but 2. The books come in different levels of sentence building to suit individual learners.
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 books include;
♦ I can see col & number - col only
♦ Col rabbits col only
♦ How many?
♦ Rabbit Feeling - Level 1
♦ Rabbit Feeling - Level 2
♦ Prepositions - Easy
♦ Prepositions - Harder
♦ Prepositions - Full sentences
♦ What? Level 1
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 or British classrooms. (Color, Colour etc.)
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 Spring.
This pack includes 5 different sentence building / adapted books all related to Groundhog Day theme. All books come in b/w and col option but 2. The books come in different levels of sentence building to suit individual learners.
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 books include;
♦ Colour/Color Groundhogs - col only
♦ Counting Colour/Color Groundhogs - col only
♦ How many groundhogs? 2 box
♦ Prepositions -Level 1 book
♦ What? Level 1 book.
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 or British classrooms. (Color, Colour etc.)
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 Groundhog Day.