Hi,
I am a primary teacher in Scotland and currently I work with learners with severe and complex additional support needs in both the primary and secondary settings. I recognise the need for good quality resources, unfortunately these are not always available to suit the needs of my visual learners who require that extra support and those that I do find often need to be adapted to meet my learners needs. I hope that you find them as useful in your classrooms as I have found them in mine.
Hi,
I am a primary teacher in Scotland and currently I work with learners with severe and complex additional support needs in both the primary and secondary settings. I recognise the need for good quality resources, unfortunately these are not always available to suit the needs of my visual learners who require that extra support and those that I do find often need to be adapted to meet my learners needs. I hope that you find them as useful in your classrooms as I have found them in mine.
This resource can be used in a variety of ways, as a visual prompt to remind young children or those with additional support needs of the correct sequence when brushing their teeth correctly. It can also be used when introducing sequencing and ordinal numbers by using a routine learners are familiar with.
In my class I have the chart displayed by the sink and the flashcards on a keyring i flip over as a visual prompt. You could also reduce the size by printing 2 to a page and attach to a keyring for taking out and about with you.
This is a great resource to put in pupil's individual TEACCH boxes or for independent tasks to consolidate matching, sequencing and following a pattern.
The flashcards are clear and uncluttered for maximum pupil focus.
They can be used with threading cubes to also promote and encourage fine motor skills.
This differentiated resource has been created for learners with communication or learning difficulties to enable them to share their news with their peers. I use this every morning in my class with learners who have a range of ASD and learning difficulties as a settling task sorting the day of the week, the weather and how they are feeling. They then choose from a range of symbols to represent what they either did the night before or are going to do that day. It is a great supporting tool to encourage and promote communication, talking and listening skills. There are 3 differentiated boards that range from symbol matching, emergent writing and independent writing. In my class I found it most useful to bind the symbols and boards so that they open like a book, I copied the symbols and cut them before mounting them onto the base board with Velcro, pupils can then move them onto their own board.
This is an extremely useful resource to aid pupils with ASD to help them sequence their daily routine. I use it in my class to smooth transitions between subjects and locations and it reduces stress levels in pupils who find these transitions challenging. It can begin with just 1 symbol before building up to 5 so pupils can structure their tasks, morning routine or day.
The symbols are Mayer Johnston images found within the popular Boardmaker software and reproduce with permission so they will correspond to any other resources already in place using this software.
This resource is very useful when laminated to sit on the pupils desks to support them completing independent literacy and numeracy activity tasks. It features the alphabet (with vowels colour coded) number line to 20 (odd & even) colour coded, 100 square, common colour and 2d shape names.
This clearly laid out and visual addition board will support pupils who find the task of addition challenging. There is space under the addition sum for pupils to place/use concrete items. I have included number tiles for pupils who also find writing challenging.
It is especially supportive to pupils with additional support needs.
This resource can be used in a variety of ways, as a visual prompt to remind young children or those with additional support needs of the correct sequence when washing their hands correctly. It can also be used when introducing sequencing and ordinal numbers by using a routine learners are familiar with.
In my class I have the chart displayed by the sink and the flashcards on a keyring i flip over as a visual prompt. You could also reduce the size by printing 2 to a page and attach to a keyring for taking out and about with you.
