We are in full swing of using our Leveled Daily Curriculum for both Language Arts and Math and I am in LOVE. It makes my planning so easy and makes my day to day instruction run more smoothly and cohesively. I feel in control of my instruction. I feel like I have a plan and I know where my students are going. And damn – it feels good! I thought I’d share a quick video of how I set everything up because I am just loving it so much! 🙂
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Thank you for this.
Although my school has not required me to go into this kind of planning detail yet, I am sure I will have to some day.
It was nice to see how you organized your units.
I have this and love it too! I am just wondering why just one page a day?
Shasa,
I am debating about keeping student work in one big binder verse each there own. In the binder you are holding (student binder) what tabs do you have? This might help me figure out the best option for my classroom. Thank you!
You’re glowing! 🙂
I am in desperate need of your math curriculum- I’ve spent close to $1000 in your store… any chance you could throw a sale sometime soon? 🙂
Is this what you work on during your direct instruction groups, or does a para do it? What do you do for students who have difficulty completing worksheets (because of fine motor difficulties for example)?
You can utilize it however you like! The one page a day ensures that it lasts a whole year but you can definitely use it however works best for you and your students! 🙂
In the student binders they have a section for monthly visual calendars, daily work pages, LA curriculum, math curriculum, and vocabulary pages. Hope this helps!
Thanks, Megan! Makes me so happy to hear all of my resources have been helpful to you! TpT usually does a sale right after Thanksgiving (cyber Monday) so that will be your best bet at getting a lot of savings! Sounds far away but it will be here before we know it! 🙂
I do this in direct instruction but it could run well with a para too! For my students who have fine motor issues I do a lot of adaptations – adding in highlighting, cutting up the worksheet, and also using the worksheet as a teaching tool for concepts we are working on. We use the worksheet a lot for receptive language identification with those kiddos. Hope this helps!
I am having a hard time getting my district to cover your curriculum. How can a prove to them that you are using research based strategies throughout your instruction and that this is what is best for my learners.
Hi Allie! Sorry to hear about the trouble. I am in the process of working the references for research based approaches used in the curriculum but it took a bit of a back seat to back to school mania and maternity leave prepping. I’m hoping to have it done soon!
So do you use your lang. arts and math curriculum for your main direct instruction time? and then work on individual IEP goals at another time during the day? I love these resources and am trying to plan out when to use them and/or whether to have a para use it.
thank you!
Yep! I use during my main direct instruction time. I do LA in morning and Math in afternoon. It really works out that a lot of the skills align to IEP goals. Any extra data or instruction I need I do after the curriculum page. The pages are pretty quick so this works out well! I think the kids like starting with the same activity each day.
Do you have your lesson plans divided into different subject binders, or all together in a main lesson plan binder? It looks like in the video that you have them divided by lang. arts and math… can you do a video tour of just your lesson plans and how you organize them? (especially since so many other skills are being worked on in other areas).
I have separate binders for LA and Math because this year I do all LA in the morning and all Math in the afternoon. I still use this system for what my actual lesson plans for each group look like: https://theautismhelper.com/lesson-planning-autism-classroom/. Also check out some of my lesson plans from last year’s reading groups: https://theautismhelper.com/page/3/?s=lesson+plans. I will definitely so a more in depth post & video on this soon!
Hi!
Any plans to add a level 4 to your Leveled Daily Curriculum?
Yes!! But it definitely won’t be done for this school year unfortunately. 🙁 It’s roughly in the works but a long way off from being finished.
This (as well as your whole website/ youtube channel) has been so helpful! I have been using and adapting a lot of your ideas to set up my Multiple Exceptionalities high school program in Canada. Thank you so much!
Thanks for reading! 🙂
Hi Sasha! I have been following your page for some time now and it has been such a great help. Love your ideas! Your curriculums look fantastic, but I have been wondering if you still do guided reading groups. If so, how do you fit it in? Do you combine it with your language arts instruction?
Yes! We still do guided reading groups. We focus on texts 3ish days a week and then expand on the grammar concepts in the curriculum the other two days. The worksheets can go pretty quickly so I still feel like we have enough time. We also use the concepts we are learning about in the curriculum within the guided reading format (ie. practice identifying synonym and antonyms, or identify the main idea). Hope this helps!
This definitely helps! Again, I love your site. This is my second year of teaching a smaller instructional class. Your resources and ideas have been such a help! I feel so lost sometimes. I come back to your site often to help me out. 🙂
Thanks so much for reading! The first few years can be so challenging. It gets better – I promise!!