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 resource contains 40 task cards related to the theme of UK money. These task cards are a great way for students to work on their money recognition skills.Please note that this resource only contains UK coins/money.
There are 4 task cards per page, I recommend cutting these out individually and laminating so that they will be stronger, longer lasting and re-usable throughout the School year.
This comes with instructions on the first page for you to be able to get the most out of this resource.
The task cards come in col and bw for your preference.
The task cards come in different ability levels enabling you to differentiate to individual abilities;
♦ individual coin recognition - choose correct answer from 3
♦ adding up 2 coins
♦ adding up 4 coins
♦ writing individual coin value
This social story is a great read for students who may need some support with brushing their teeth. A lot of children struggle with brushing their teeth, it may cause them anxiety and they may not even understand why they are brushing their teeth. Hopefully, this social story will help encourage your students to brush their teeth, 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;
♦ It is important to keep my teeth clean.
♦ I should brush my teeth in the morning.
♦ And I should brush my teeth in the night.
♦ Brushing my teeth helps to keep my mouth fresh and clean.
♦ When my teeth are dirty, I heed to brush them.
♦ First, I get my toothbrush.
♦ Next, I wet my toothbrush.
♦ Then, I get my toothpaste.
♦ I carefully put my toothpaste on my toothbrush.
♦ Then I use my toothbrush to brush all my teeth.
♦ I have to be very careful and clean them properly or I’ll get bad teeth!
♦ I can use floss to make my teeth extra clean!
♦ Once I’ve finished, I rinse my toothbrush under the tap.
♦ Look how clean my teeth are!
♦ The dentist will be very happy with my teeth!
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 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 bingo activity is great to take part with small or large groups. All themes are linked to the theme of St. David’s Day. This comes with image bingo cards, image and word flash cards as well as small word/image cards and just word cards.
The second page of the PDF contains instructions on different ways you can use this bingo resource in your classroom.
10 different boards in total - up to 10 players during one game.
I would recommend laminating each board individually for them to be stronger and longer lasting but this is personal choice.
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 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.
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 sight words. 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.
18 different activities boards in total.
The first page in the PDF is the instructions page to help you use these to their best potential.
Sight words include are:
♦ in
♦ find
♦ can
♦ down
♦ blue
♦ here
♦ run
♦ jump
♦ play
♦ red
♦ look
♦ little
♦ go
♦ up
♦ all
♦ small
♦ help
♦ yellow
♦ black
♦ where
♦ one
♦ I
♦ funny
♦ who
♦ you
♦ two
♦ away
♦ we
♦ three
♦ me
♦ ate
♦ no
♦ get
♦ good
♦ brown
♦ four
♦ he
♦ eat
♦ now
♦ like
♦ new
♦ warm
♦ on
♦ ran
♦ ride
♦ please
♦ say
♦ our
♦ under
♦ there
♦ white
♦ she
♦ want
♦ they
♦ yes
♦ after
♦ give
♦ ask
♦ fly
♦ ten
♦ her
♦ over
♦ open
♦ old
♦ stop
♦ him
♦ take
♦ before
♦ walk
♦ think
♦ buy
♦ thank
♦ call
♦ first
♦ found
♦ fast
♦ five
♦ cold
♦ green
♦ sing
♦ off
♦ pull
♦ sit
♦ read
♦ sleep
♦ work
♦ wash
♦ wish
♦ tell
♦ write
♦ your
♦ clean
♦ drink
♦ draw
♦ carry
♦ cut
♦ eight
♦ hurt
♦ hot
♦ grow
♦ fall
♦ laugh
♦ light
♦ show
♦ seven
♦ six
♦ together
♦ small
This pack includes 4 different sentence building books all related to Feelings / Emotions. 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;
♦ How does the boy feel? - 1 box answer
♦ How does the girl feel? - 1 box answer
♦ How do the children feel? - 2 box answer
♦ How do the children feel? - 4 box answer
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 Feelings/Emotions.
Mini booklets for each of the vowels - a,e,i,o,u. Each medial vowel has their own mini booklet, containing 6 different images/words.
These mini booklets are a great way for your students to work on their CVC words, while making it more interactive and fun for them. Simply staple/put together the pages so that it makes a mini book, then have the students color/colour in the CVC images, read the words and then write them. There is a writing prompt on the bottom of each page for students to overwrite.
This is a great way to introduce CVC words to your students. Once the mini booklets are completed they can either be put on display, sent home or kept close for your students to look back on and use throughout the year when needed to look back over and use for different CVC activities.
Contains 10 pages - 4 mini pages to 1 standard page.
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 social story is a great read for children who may need some preparation for an upcoming visit to the zoo.
The animals included have been kept as generic as possible so that they will more than likely be seen in any zoo.
It is a generic story of two children who go to the zoo with their family. It's a great way to prepare children for what will happen, what they may see and what they may do at the zoo.
Comes in col option only - no b/w availability, however you can print in grayscale.
This download consists of 36 different Growth Mindset posters. These are great to have on display around your classroom/work area to promote and encourage students working to have Growth Mindset.
I highly recommend laminating each of the individual posters so that they will be stronger and longer lasting.
These posters will provide you with a great opportunity to encourage Growth Mindset within your classroom / work room.
This Halloween themed color / colouring sorting activity is a great, and interactive way for students to work on their color sorting skills while continuing the theme of Halloween.
This resource contains 10 different colours for students to match the correct images / colors into.
The colours / colors included are:
♦ Blue
♦ Brown
♦ Grey / Gray
♦ Green
♦ Orange
♦ Pink
♦ Purple
♦ Red
♦ White
♦ Yellow
This resource comes with both spelling options of grey/gray.
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 Bonfire Night themed word search pack contains 2 different levels of word search worksheets, blank word search worksheets for students to make their own Bonfire Night 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 11 (8 words)
♦ Level 2 word search worksheets x 6 (16 words)
♦ Level 1 and Level 2 blank word search worksheets for students to make their own Bonfire Night 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 pumpkin themed 2D shape task card activity is a great way for your students to work on their shape recognition skills, while introducing the theme of autumn/fall/halloween into your learning environment.
This activity includes 9 different task cards. Each task card contains an image of a pumpkin in a different 2D shape. Then, there are simple 2D shapes for you to cut out, which students match to the pumpkin task cards- or you can use real shapes that you have already, in your classroom.
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 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 clean their bedroom - 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 clean their bedroom and help to promote independence during this routine.
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 space themed wh- question resource contains 6 different space themed scenery images accompanied with two different types of recording sheets/questions.
Each scenery image comes with:
♦ non-verbal question/recording cards
♦ verbal question/recording cards
to suit individual student needs. The question/recording cards also come with space to record two different dates to track student progress.
The wh- questions are; who, what, where.
10 questions included for each scene = 60 questions in total.
A great way to improve student understanding, attention to detail and question/answering techniques.
This resources comes in col option only - no b/w option.
This 3 Little Pigs write the room activity is a great way to have students moving around the room, hunting for the different cards, reading them and then writing down the answers onto recording sheets.
The recording sheets come in numbers 1-10 as well as in 2 different ability levels - plain boxes to write the answers in or boxes with handwriting lines for students to write in.
Each image is linked to the theme of 3 Little Pigs and all images can be seen in the preview of this resource. This will be an excellent addition to your 3 Little Pigs topic and expand your students knowledge while allowing them to move around.
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 working on their vocabulary and spelling skills.
This resource comes in col and b/w option for your preference.
Are you looking for hands-on and engaging work task boxes for your autism and special education students? Do you want your students to love working on their counting, color recognition and fine motor skills? Or are you looking for a sensory and hands-on activity to add to your math centers? If you say yes to any of those questions - this birthday math activity is the perfect addition to your task boxes.
Your students will love working on their number, instruction, counting and fine motor skills with this hands-on and engaging task box activity.
What’s Included?
-Task cards with instructions from 0-20.
-Task cards with instructions for color candles.
How to Use
-Students read - or be read - the instruction on the task card.
-Students make a cake out of play dough in a cake case - or if you’re feeling brave - use real cupcakes!
-Then, students use candles (we use real ones) and place them into the cake (fake or real) to match the instruction on the card. This could be by counting to a certain number or by color matching.
Instructions
-Print out the included task cards.
-Laminate the task cards.
-Provide your students with a cupcake (fake or real) and candles (fake or real).
Your students will love working with this fun birthday math activity to work on their counting, number recognition, instruction and fine motor skills. This is also a great way for your students to work on understanding the connection between number and quantity as well as their color recognition skills.
These task cards fit perfectly into photo storage boxes - making it easy for you to stay organised and keep all the pieces together.
This social story is a great read for students who may need some support with washing their hands. A lot of children struggle with washing their hands, it may cause them anxiety and they may not even understand why they are doing it. Hopefully, this social story will help encourage your child(ren)/students to wash their hands, 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;
♦ It is important to keep my hands clean.
♦ My hands get dirty through the day.
♦ I should wash my hands after I go to the bathroom.
♦ I should wash my hands before I eat.
♦ The best place to wash my hands is in the sink.
♦ First, I have to turn the tap on.
♦ Then, I put some soap on my hands.
♦ Then, I put some soap on my hands.
♦ I scrub my hands together with the soap.
♦ Then, I wash my hands with water.
♦ Then, I dry my hands.
♦ Now my hands are all clean!
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.