Moving Beyond Requesting (Part 1): Feature, Function, & Category
This is the first post in a six part series about building vocabulary to support increasingly complex language tasks both receptively and expressively. Many of our students are nonverbal or limited-verbal communicators. For some, picture exchange is a useful and...
Spring Animal Language and Learner Lessons
I love this time of year when you start to hear the birds and frogs outside and the weather is a bit warmer. I think everyone can use a little freshen up and sunshine here lately! I recently took a trip to the Dollar Tree and it did not disappoint. While I don’t...
Behavior Task Cards
I love teaching and working on social skills with my students. I’m a big fan of Michelle Garcia Winner and incorporate a lot of her Social Thinking concepts and vocabulary terms when working on these important skills. I think one of the foundational skills to work...
Preposition Boards
Learning prepositional concepts is so important for our students but also a challenging skill to teach. I always have students who are working on this skill. I would say one of my most go to goals I write for my students involves understanding and following...
The 12 Days of St. Patrick’s Day with Free Book Visuals and Questions
I’m always on the lookout for new books to use with my students related to holidays and I recently found one for St. Patrick’s Day which is “The 12 Days of St. Patrick’s Day.” I have used the other “The 12 Days of….” holiday books by Jenna Lettice and when I saw this...
Using Adapted Books to Work on Color Concepts
Still working on color concepts with your students? I created another adapted book series about colors. This series includes; “What Color is the Food?”, “What Color is the Animal?”, and “What Color is the School Supply?” Many of the students on my caseload are...
Activities for Teaching Plural Concepts
I’m sure you know teaching grammar is not easy. There are so many different rules and exceptions to the rules which makes teaching grammar to our students challenging. We have lots of grammar skills we can work on with our students but today it’s all about plurals. ...
Counting Adapted Book Series
Working on number concepts with your students? Check out this Counting Adapted Book Series. The set includes “How Many Do You See?”, “Let’s Count the Animals!”, and “I Can Count!” Each book has a different format but the goal is to work on those 1 to 1-10 number...
Let’s Find Shapes and Shape Sorting Activities
I’ve been sharing about my shape themed adapted book series and “Let’s Find Shapes” is the final book in this series. The series includes “What Shape Do You See?”, “I See Shapes”, and “Let’s Find Shapes”. All these books are great to work on those basic shape...
I See Shapes Adapted Book with Free Shape Bingo Games
I’m still working with my students on those basic shape concepts so the plan for this week is my “I See Shapes” adapted book and one of my fun Shape Bingo games. I created a set of both Color and Shape Bingo Games that I wanted to share as a free resource for you to...
What Shape Do You See? Adapted Book and Free Shape Activity
I’ve been working with many of my students on some of those basic color, shape, and number concepts so I created a set of three adapted books just to focus on shape concepts. This series includes “What Shape Do You See?”, “I See Shapes”, and “Let’s Find Shapes”. ...
Let’s Find Colors and Color Sorting Fun
I’ve been sharing about my color themed adapted book series and "Let’s Find Colors" is the final book in this series. The series includes “What Color Do You See?”, “I See Colors”, and “Let’s Find Colors”. All these books are great to work on those color concepts...
I See Colors Adapted Book and Color Themed Activities
Working on color concepts with your students? I’ve got the perfect Color Themed Adapted book series to use. This series of color themed adapted books includes “What Color Do You See?”, “I See Colors”, and “Let’s Find Colors”. Each week I’m using one of these books...
What Color Do You See? Adapted Book and Craft
I’ve been working with my younger students on Color, Shape, and Number concepts so I created some adapted books to target these basic skills. I made a set of 3 adapted books which all target color concepts. The series includes “What Color Do You See?”, “I See...
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Cow Book Visuals and Cow Craft
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Cow by Lucille Colandro is a fun book to use with your students to work on those farm animal concepts and sequencing skills. I paired this book with a simple cow craft and it was a great lesson for my students. I created some...
Receptive Present Progressive Verb Task Cards
I’m excited about these new receptive present progressive task cards I recently finished making. I created these cards because I’m always working with students on learning and identifying different action verbs concepts. This set is large and contains 150 task...
Shape Themed File Folder Activities
I recently shared about my set of Color Themed File Folder Activities so they week I wanted to share about my Shape File Folder Activities. The beginning of the year is a good time to prep some new materials you can use this upcoming school year. As I mentioned...
Color Themed File Folder Activities
As we are getting ready to start another school year I always like take some time and prep new materials and get things set up for the upcoming year. There is always so much to do as we start off the school year that if I have some material and lessons ready to go at...
Adapted Book Extension Activities-Four Ways!
My love for adapted books runs deep. They can be so much more engaging than a regular board book. I love using them for kiddos who do not seem to be as interested in flipping through pages or picking out books just yet. There is something magical about removing the...
Targeting Developmental Milestones at Home or School
As I was wrapping up my last annual IEP reviews for the year and creating goals for the next year, I found myself in a land of wh-question type goals. To be at this point with my kiddos is so exciting because they have made leaps and bounds to get to these types of...