Simple books for SEND students or new readers.
Can use objects of reference where suitable to aid comprehension e.g. using farm animal toys to match to relevant pages in farm animal book.
Laminate and make into books to be used regularly.
Visuals to support reflection of an event/behaviour.
3 books are the same, just different skin tones.
Laminate and make into a booklet, either with treasury tags or in a ring binder.
Various activities to go with the songbook-
Great English work for song/music motivated SEND students
Sequencing
Colourful semantics
communication board
Adapted books-Use the comprehension symbols to help students answer questions on the text
Resources for RE lessons about Diwali.
A simple PowerPoint that includes a song about Diwali on each slide (to the tune of London Bridge is falling down, because I don’t seem to be able to write a song to any other tune lol) The powerpoint has some videos linked. If they do not load check that external media has been allowed.
Low ability- Match a word to a labelled symbol
Middle ability - colourful semantics to make sentences about Diwali
Higher ability- Communication board to write sentences
I used this for my class of ASC students that need lots of visual support and are highly motivated by songs.
Traffic light resource, useful to help students with autism to self-regulate.
Depending on the needs of your students you may need to teach them how to use it first, e.g. say to them "you are feeling angry, (put sad symbol on red area) then give them an option of 2 yellow symbols to help them calm down. Let them do this activity with a sandtimer and ask them how they feel when the timer is finished (green symbols).
Laminate and velcro traffic light background. laminate and cut out symbols with velcro on the back.
PowerPoint discussing the positive and negative actions of Henry VIII. During the PowerPoint I got students involved by showing thumbs up or thumbs down during each slide to give their opinion on his actions.
Sorting activity has 2 levels. The colour coded (red and green) are for lower ability students (I used a red and green hoop for them to sort them into).
The black outlined cards are for more able students.
Ideally this resource is for SEND students or the lower ability students in a mainstream class.
I did this with my ASC class to teach about Hanukkah. We sang the song (to the tune of London Bridge is falling down) with visuals (e.g. with dreidels) for each section of the song.
Students then completed task related to the song.
Low ability- Matched a symbol to an object (photographs taken for evidence)
Middle ability- Colourful semantic sentences
High ability- wrote sentences using communication board
The work was aimed at ASC students with high needs.