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 activity contains 12 different mystery puzzles in the theme of Food. The mystery puzzles are a great way for students to work on their number skills as well as paying close attention to detail, following instructions and colour / color recognition.
This resource is suitable for both spelling options of - colour and color.
Included are finished examples of how the puzzles should look when completed for you to have examples on hand as well as using as answer sheets for you to check students work.
At the bottom of each page are instructions for students to colour / color certain numbers in certain colours / colors. At the end of the activity students are able to write what they can see at the bottom of the page.
This resource includes task cards with ten frames 0 - 10. Students have to count how many leeks are in the ten frame and then select the correct answer out of 3 choices on the bottom of the task card.
Come in color/colour and black and white option.
Instructions are included on the first page of PDF file.
2 task cards come on each page.
I recommend cutting and laminating each task card individually, by laminating the task cards you will find they are stronger and longer lasting. This means you can use them year in, year out for your students, just pulling them out of the cupboard and you can wipe them clean after your students have finished with them!
Great for number/counting practice especially for St. David’s time
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.
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.
This resource contains 11 different col. recognition task cards. Comes in both spelling options of grey and gray.
These task cards are a fun way to have your students work on their colour recognition / color recognition skills. Students simply read the short phrase 'I spy my little eye something .....' and read the colour name and look at the colour splat provided- then choose the object that is that matching colour on the right hand side with the task card.
The best part about these task cards are that students can self-correct or change their answer without worrying about the answer they previously chose.
Appropriate for American and British/Canadian etc. classrooms - color/colour, gray/grey.
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.
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.
This activity contains 9 easy and 4 harder style word search worksheets related to the theme of Spring.
All vocabulary is linked to the theme of Spring and includes black and white graphics for ink friendly printing.
The easier word searches contain 8 words for students to find. The harder word searches contain 16 words for students to find.
Some of the vocabulary you will find included are;
• Spring
• Flower
• Weather
• Sun
• Cloud
• Rain
• Grow
• Born
• Flowers
• Lamb
• Plants
• Seeds
• Green
• Umbrellas
• Puddles
• Bloom
• Blossom
• Season
• Rainbow
• Easter
• Showers
• Nest
• Birds
• Chicks
• March
• April
• May
• Minibeasts
• Animals
This resource is a great way for your students to work on their spelling and handwriting skills, plus it's linked to the theme of Halloween.
Each page comes with two task cards on it with the same image/vocabulary. One task card is for spelling or handwriting - it comes with a prompt above so students can either use the included letters to match them or they can write in the boxes underneath to work on their handwriting skills.
The second task card on the page is for students to work on their handwriting by having a prompt underneath, this is where students will overwrite the word.
The task cards come in b/w and col option for your preference.
♦ Task Card 1: Students have a picture, prompt and then cut out letters to match to the words or use the prompt above to work on their handwriting in the boxes below.
♦ Task Card 2: Students over write the Halloween word.
This activity does require you to do a bit of cutting and laminating but it is well worth it and will be long-lasting and beneficial to your pupils.
Cut out the task cards and laminate them as your 'base'. Then cut out the individual letters and laminate these. I recommend laminating as they will last longer but if you want to use as a cut/paste activity with your students these will also be great.
This download includes task cards with ten frames 0 - 10. Students have to count how many candles are in the ten frame and then select the correct answer out of 3 choices on the bottom of the task card.
Come in color/colour and black and white option.
All graphics are linked to the theme of Diwali.
Instructions are included on the first page of PDF file.
2 task cards come on each page.
I recommend cutting and laminating each task card individually, by laminating the task cards you will find they are stronger and longer lasting. This means you can use them year in, year out for your students, just pulling them out of the cupboard and you can wipe them clean after your students have finished with them!
Great for number/counting practice especially for the theme of Diwali.
This Christmas themed activity is a great way for your students to work on their math, number, counting, fine motor and problem solving skills. As well as all these skills, this activity will provide your students with the opportunity to look at images of Christmas and use these as a talking point.
The puzzles come in 3 different difficulty levels;
• Level 1 - 0-3
• Level 2 - 0-5
• Level 3 - 0-10
There is a range of ways that these can be used in your classroom such as;
• Print out the b/w puzzles, cut them up and hand them out to your students. Have your students put the puzzles together, sticking them onto a piece of paper/into their work book, then colour them in.
• Print out the puzzles, cut them up and laminate them. Use them as a center activity where your students have to look at the numbers on the bottom of each puzzle piece, put them into numerical order to make the puzzle.
• Print out two copies of each puzzle (one copy can be b/w), laminate one as a full puzzle (i recommend the b/w one) and then cut out the puzzle pieces on the other puzzle. Laminate the puzzle pieces. Have your students match the individual pieces onto the completed puzzle. This provides a lower ability option for students struggling.
Instructions are also included on first pages of each PDF document. I would highly recommend laminating each of the individual task cards so that they will be stronger, therefore longer lasting.
This is a great way to keep students motivated and engaged while working on their ten frame counting skills. Comes in both b/w and col option for your printing preference.
This resource is great for practising alphabet and initial letter recognition skills and is perfect to keep it linked to the theme of Halloween.
There are two candy corn puzzles per page and a puzzle for each letter of the alphabet.
It comes in col and b/w option for your preference.
Cut out each piece of the candy corn, laminate and spread out across the floor, get your students to match the pieces together to build letter/pic candy corns!
Students have to match Upper Case, Lower Case and a picture.
This resource contains 17 different Halloween word puzzles. Each word puzzle is to be cut into individual strips so that students have to figure out the puzzles to make vocabulary linked to the theme of Halloween.
Each puzzle contains contains an image and the matching word. This is a great activity to tie into your Halloween unit, students will love working on their spelling with this fun activity, plus it comes in b/w for ink friendly printing!
This frog themed activity is a great way for your students to work on their colour sorting / color sorting skills. This resource can either be used as a simple colour matching activity where students have to match the same colour frog to the lily pad, or you can use the instruction task cards included. The instruction task cards contain a small instruction (with symbol support) for students to read/listen to and then follow. For example ‘put 3 blue frogs on the green lily pad.’ The task cards are a great way to see if your students are not only able to read the instruction, but to also take meaning and understanding from it and know what to do next.
The vocabulary is suitable for American or British classrooms. (Color, Colour etc.)
Instructions
• Print out the lily pad pages and laminate them.
• Print out the frogs, cut them out individually and laminate them.
• Print out the task cards if using and laminate them.
• Students can then either match the colour frogs to the matching lily pad or use the instruction task cards to complete the activity.
This Halloween themed instruction activity is a great, and interactive way for students to work on their attention to detail skills, instruction skills, reading/listening skills and also the ability to recognise different costumes while continuing the theme of Halloween.
Students simply read the 'child's' request on the task card then find the matching costume that they want to wear for Halloween!
This resource contains 12 different task cards for students to work on. It also comes in b/w and col option for your preference.
I highly recommend cutting out and laminating each of the individual pieces so that they will be stronger, longer lasting and re-usable for years to come.
This download includes task cards with ten frames 0 - 10.
Students have to count how many stars are in the ten frame and then select the correct answer out of 3 choices on the bottom of the task card.
Come in color/colour or black and white option.
Instructions are included on the first page of PDF file. 2 task cards come on each page.
I recommend cutting and laminating each task card individually, by laminating the task cards you will find they are stronger and longer lasting. This means you can use them year in, year out for your students, just pulling them out of the cupboard and you can wipe them clean after your students have finished with them!
Great for number/counting practice especially for Guy Fawkes/Bonfire Night.
The word to picture matching activities are a fantastic resource for the autism classroom, especially with non-verbal students although can also be used within Spec Ed or General Ed Classrooms to promote reading.
It 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 promote that.
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.
All vocabulary and images linked to the UK celebration of Guy Fawkes/Bonfire Night on 5th November.
Comes in colour/color or black and white option.
This includes 32 different task cards.
16 of which come in color/colour or black and white option, the remainder come only in color/colour.
There are instructions on the first page of the PDF.
Students just color/colour or place a counter/peg on the answer of the initial sound of the picture shown in the task card.
All images linked to Halloween theme.
This simplified story is based on the story of Florence Nightingale. It includes 20 pages and the story has been simplified to be more engaging for students and easier for them to understand and follow the story of Florence Nightingale and everything that she achieved throughout her life.
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.
You can use this resource as a whole class story which you can read to your students, or print numerous copies and have them readily available for your students to read in your classroom library.
Another great way to use this resource is to introduce the book page by page each day/week and put together as a sequencing activity into student’s literacy books so that you can discuss each page more in-depth and have your students work on their sequencing skills.
This resource comes in colour/color or black and white option for your preference. It is also suitable for both UK and US readers i.e colour/color.
This download contains 20 different task cards based around the theme of Easter. 10 task cards are carrots, and 10 task cards are easter bunnies.
Each task card contains an image of a carrot or bunny made into a 2D shape, at the bottom of the task card there are two different options for students to choose to state what shape the image is.
♦ Comes in col and b/w option. ♦
There are 2 task cards per page.
There are instructions included on the front page of the document. I recommend cutting them out individually and then laminating them, this will make them stronger and longer lasting - meaning you can use them over and over again.
This is a great addition to your Easter unit, as well as being a different way for students to work on their 2D shape skills.