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 social story is a great read for students who may need some support with going to the cinema / movies. A lot of children struggle with understanding the process of what is involved going to the cinema / movies, it may cause them anxiety and they may not even understand why they need to do the things asked of them. Hopefully, this social story will help encourage your child(ren)/students to go to the cinema / movies, and also help promote independence.
Many students with autism are visual learners and like to learn through seeing something in action. This book comes complete with matching, simple yet engaging graphics to help describe what is being said on the page.
Comes in col option only - no b/w availability, however you can print in grayscale.
Pages included in 'Going to Movies' Social Story are;
♦ Today I am going to the movies.
♦ The movies is where you can watch all the new movies.
♦ First, we have to buy our tickets for the movie we want to watch.
♦ We can buy some snacks and drinks to watch the movie.
♦ We have to take our seat ready for the movie to start.
♦ When the movie starts, the lights will go dark.
♦ During the movie we have to be quiet so others can watch too.
♦ At the end of the movie, the lights will come back on.
♦ We should put all our trash into the trash can.
Pages included in 'Going to Cinema' Social Story are;
♦ Today I am going to the cinema.
♦ The cinema is where you can watch all the new movies.
♦ First, we have to buy our tickets for the movie we want to watch.
♦ We can buy some snacks and drinks to watch the movie.
♦ We have to take our seat ready for the movie to start.
♦ When the movie starts, the lights will go dark.
♦ During the movie we have to be quiet so others can watch too.
♦ At the end of the movie, the lights will come back on.
♦ We should put all our rubbish into the bin.
I recommend printing out each of the individual pages, laminating them and then binding them into a book so it will be easier for students to read - or be read to, as well as being stronger and longer lasting. You can use only the pages that you feel most relevant.
This social story is a great read for students who may need some support with going shopping. A lot of children struggle with understanding the process of what is involved going shopping, it may cause them anxiety and they may not even understand why they need to do the things asked of them. Hopefully, this social story will help encourage your child(ren)/students to go shopping and also help promote independence.
Many students with autism are visual learners and like to learn through seeing something in action. This book comes complete with matching, simple yet engaging graphics to help describe what is being said on the page.
Comes in col option only - no b/w availability, however you can print in grayscale.
Pages included are;
♦ Today I am going to go shopping.
♦ We have to go shopping for food for the house.
♦ We have to go shopping for new clothes to wear.
♦ If I have lots to buy I can make a shopping list.
♦ The shops may be busy with lots of people.
♦ I can use a basket or shopping cart for my shopping.
♦ Once I have all my shopping, I go to the cash desk.
♦ The cashier scans my shopping and I pay with money or a card.
♦ All my shopping gets packed into bags.
♦ When I get home, I unpack all the bags and put the items away.
I recommend printing out each of the individual pages, laminating them and then binding them into a book so it will be easier for students to read - or be read to, as well as being stronger and longer lasting. You can use only the pages that you feel most relevant.
This social story is a great read for students who may need some support with going to the Dentist. A lot of children struggle with going to the dentist, it may cause them anxiety and they may not even understand why they are going there or what to expect - mostly worried about pain. Hopefully, this social story will help encourage your child(ren)/students to go their to the Dentist, and also help promote independence.
Many students with autism are visual learners and like to learn through seeing something in action. This book comes complete with matching, simple yet engaging graphics to help describe what is being said on the page.
Comes in col option only - no b/w availability, however you can print in grayscale.
Pages included are;
♦ Today I am going to the Dentist.
♦ Tomorrow, I am going to the Dentist.
♦ The Dentist will look in my mouth at my teeth and gums.
♦ The Dentist helps to keep my gums and teeth clean and healthy.
♦ When I get to the dentist, I check in with the receptionist.
♦ I may have to wait in the waiting room.
♦ When my name is called, I will go in to the Dentist’s room.
♦ The dentist, and their assistant will say hello to me.
♦ I will sit in the big dentist chair.
♦ The Dentist will put the chair down so I am laying down.
♦ The dentist will wear gloves when they check in my mouth.
♦ The Dentist will use special equipment to check my teeth.
♦ I must open my mouth wide for the dentist to see inside.
♦ The Dentist may talk to the assistant about my teeth for her to record.
♦ When the Dentist is finished, I can have a drink or mouthwash.
♦ If my teeth are wonky, I may need braces.
♦ I go to an Orthodontist to have braces fitted. They are special dentists.
♦ I may need an X-Ray, I just have to bite down on the plastic bit.
♦ This helps the dentist see what my teeth look like.
♦ If I have a bad tooth, the dentist may take it out.
♦ They will give me something to numb it so it won’t hurt me.
♦ If I have a bad tooth, the dentist may take it out.
♦ They will give me something to numb it so it won’t hurt me.
♦ When I leave, the Dentist can give me a sticker!
♦ My teeth and gums have been checked and they are great!
I recommend printing out each of the individual pages, laminating them and then binding them into a book so it will be easier for students to read - or be read to, as well as being stronger and longer lasting. You can use only the pages that you feel most relevant.
This resource is a fun and engaging activity for students to work on their coin recognition and money making skills. Students simply read the price tag that is on the piggy bank and use real coins or coins provided in this pack to make up the amount that it says.
There are flashcards for price tags from £0.01 right up to £3. This resource is a great way to get students thinking and adding money.
I highly recommend cutting out and laminating each of the individual flashcards that you will be using, the coins (if you are using these instead of real coins) and a few copies of the pig (so that you have multiple copies so multiple pupils can work at one time if you want). This can be done as small group activities, a full class activity or even 1:1 work for working on money targets.
Comes in col and and b/w option for your preference.
This resource contains UK coins.
This is a great visual resource to help motivate and encourage students to complete their task(s) or work in order to gain tokens to receive their reward.
Students collect a token for each task they complete/minute worked (you choose), once they have achieved all the tokens they get to have their choice activity.
It is important for you to offer children the choice of what they want once they have finished their work so that they are motivated to achieve it at the end!
This resource comes with two different options of each board (one with a yellow box for choice to go inside, one with black box).
It also comes in 4 different difficulty levels.
♦ Level 1: 3 tokens then reward
♦ Level 2: 4 tokens then reward
♦ Level 3: 5 tokens then reward
♦ Level 4: 10 tokens then reward
If you are unsure of what your student’s level of working is, I would start at the bottom and use level 1 then build your way up, if you feel your student is capable of working a large amount before achieving their reward then use your professional opinion on where to start them.
To put together;
♦ print out the board that you want to use
♦ laminate it and attach velcro bits in each box
♦ cut out and laminate the choice activities provided (or provide your own) and add velcro to the back of them so that they will stick to the box on the page
♦ cut out and laminate your choice of reward coupons (3 different options provided) and also velcro these.
You’re done!
This is a great resource for encouraging students to work and also to improve how long they are able to work for or how many activities they can complete!
This resource comes with some choice symbols, if you feel there is something that you desperately need please feel free to contact me through the ‘Ask a question’ tab as a request and I will try my best to add it.
The symbols included so far are;
♦ ball pit
♦ blocks
♦ game (2 options)
♦ book
♦ bubbles
♦ car
♦ computer
♦ lego
♦ iPad
♦ music (2 options)
♦ outside
♦ playground
♦ puppets
♦ relax
♦ sand
♦ time out
♦ choice
♦ toys
♦ train
♦ walk
♦ trampoline
♦ water play.
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.
This resource contains 6 different 3D Shape pages for students to match different regular objects to the matching shapes.
Shapes included are:
♦ Cone
♦ Cube
♦ Cylinder
♦ Pyramid
♦ Sphere
♦ Triangular Prism
Some shapes come with 9 shape images to match, others come with fewer - ranging between 6-9.
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 resource contains 5 different puzzles / habitats. These puzzles are a great way for you to introduce and reflect upon animal habitats in your teaching.
Simply cut out each of the jigsaw pieces and laminate (this will keep them strong and longer lasting and students match the animals/objects to the correct habitat.
Habitats included are:
♦ desert
♦ ocean
♦ arctic
♦ rainforest
♦ pond
Each puzzle comes with 4 animals/nature piece. Each puzzle piece has an image and the name of that image below it.
A fun activity that is a great way to introduce or work on animal habitats.
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 resource contains a sentence building / adapted book based on the theme of Farm Animals. The book includes 12 different animals and comes complete with symbols to use to complete the book.
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 the first page for you to get the best use out of this resource with your students.
This book contains real life photographs of farm animals.
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.
10 different pages are included in this sentence building / adapted book which encourages students to read the short sentence at the top of the page and find the appropriate and matching symbol to answer the comprehension question. 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.)
All images/vocabulary is linked to the theme of Autumn/Fall.
This resource contains 23 different comprehension activities linked to the theme of different stories from the Bible.
Each activity comes with 1 x story page and 1 x 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 individual bible stories included. They are not word for word, they have been simplified into short passages/stories to keep them engaging for students.
This is great for students to be able to read a passage and recall details from it, answering relevant questions.
It is related to Stories from the Bible to give a twist on the usual comprehension activities. This activity is a great way for you to introduce the Bible into your teaching.
Comes in black and white for ink friendly printing.
The images are eye catching and appropriate for young students who will find them engaging.
Bible Stories Include:
♦ Adam & Eve
♦ Daniel in the Lions Den
♦ David & Goliath
♦ Jonah & the Whale
♦ Joseph & the Colourful Coat / Joseph & the Colorful Coat
♦ Noah's Ark
Comes with contents page on page 2 so you are able to quickly find what pages/stories you are looking for.
This is a great visual resource to support and encourage students when taking part in different activities throughout the day. It comes with a variety of different 'boards' for your preference on which to use as well as 68 symbols to accompany the resource.
The boards included come in both b/w and col option. There is a contents page included so you are aware of what you are printing in the PDF document.
Included are:
First, Then board b/w
Now, Next board b/w
First, Next, Then board b/w
Now, Next, Then board b/w
First, Then, Last board b/w
First, Then board col
Now, Next board col
First, Next, Then board col
Now, Next, Then board col
First, Then Last board col
Visuals/Symbols
I highly recommend cutting out and laminating the individual pieces so that they will be stronger and longer lasting. There are also brief instructions included on the first page of the PDF, however this is a quick and simple resource to put together that will work wonders with you and your students throughout the year.
This resource comes with some choice symbols, if you feel there is something that you desperately need please feel free to contact me through the 'Ask a question' tab as a request and I will try my best to add it.
Contains 16 pages.
This resource contains 7 different, short story, sequencing jigsaws. Students simply read the short story then use the information that they have read to figure out which order to place the image into the jigsaw.
All the jigsaws comes in b/w option and col option for your preference.
The stories are;
★ Today we are going to the water park. Mom says for us to put our stuff next to the palm tree so we can find it easier. First, I run to the giant octopus who shoots water out. Then, I go down the giant slide. Finally, before we go home, I have a shower.
★ We are having a water fight today, so I’ve filled a bucket with water bombs. First, I pick up a green water bomb, then throw it at my friend, it hits him and explodes on his chest. He throws an orange water bomb back at me, so I try to run away from it!
★ Today, we are going to the beach. When we arrive, I sit on the sand, playing with my baby brother, but then he starts to eat it! I can see my brother looking in the rock pools for different animals, I go over to see him, and he shows me a crab that he’s found!
★ We are going to the surf shop today! There are so many nice surf boards, but finally I choose an orange one. Once we are finished, the sun is still shining, so mom takes me down to the beach and I get to surf on my new board in the sea for a little while.
★ Today is my first day at Monster School, when we get into class, the teacher gives us all a pencil each, then tells us to sit at our desks and write our names on a piece of paper. Once we have finished writing, we get to ready some books. For snack time, I choose a red apple.
★ My new teacher walks into class, he wears square glasses and has yellow hair. He tells us that today, we have a lot of work to do. First, we are going to read a story, then we are going to do some writing. Finally, before home time, we get to do some typing on the computers.
★ Our teacher stands at the front of the class with a giant chalkboard. We lay on the floor, watching her draw pictures for the alphabet. Next, the teacher reads us a story, afterwards, we work in pairs to re-write the parts of the story we liked best.
10 different pages are included in this sentence building / adapted book which encourages students to read the short sentence at the top of the page and find the appropriate and matching symbol to answer the comprehension question. 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.)
All images/vocabulary is linked to the theme of Winter.
This resource contains 6 different color/colour sorting worksheets that can be laminated and re-used as part of a binder pack or as worksheets for students to cut and stick.
There are 6 cols included; red, green, yellow, purple, blue and orange.
★ The pages come in b/w and col option but the photos only come in col option. ★
A great way to see if students are able to recognise different col objects and sort them into the correct col.
Appropriate for American and British/Canadian etc. classrooms - color/colour.
This Superhero themed word search pack contains 2 different levels of word search worksheets, blank word search worksheets for students to make their own Superhero word searches and also 2 vocabulary posters that include all the vocabulary used through all the word searches.
This resource includes;
♦ Level 1 word search worksheets x 10 (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 Superhero theme word searches
♦ Vocabulary posters 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.
This resource contains 46 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 Easter.
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.
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 objects found in a standard home. 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 contains 17 different activities.
All vocabulary linked to items you would find in a standard home.