A foundational social skills lesson focusing on the importance of eye contact and appropriate greetings for life skills students. Includes visual supports and step-by-step guidance.
A hands-on lesson for special education and kindergarten students to explore the CORE word 'Work' through community helper crafts and pretend play badges.
A foundational phonics lesson focused on decoding one and two-syllable closed words. Students practice phoneme-grapheme mapping with Elkonin boxes and build fluency through targeted reading passages.
A 20-minute working memory session. Students learn to store 'Memory Flowers' in their 'Brain Garden' using mental snapshots.
A 20-minute active listening session. Students use their 'Petal Ears' to catch instructions and the 'Sparkle Echo' to make them stick in their memory.
A 20-minute session on sustained attention. Students learn to keep their 'Focus Wand' pointed at their work and ignore 'Distraction Butterflies' that try to fly in.
A 20-minute introduction to starting tasks promptly. Students learn to use their 'Magic Spark' to start jobs immediately and practice the 'Bloom Signal'.
A 20-minute working memory session. Students learn to create 'Mental Snapshots' and store them in 'Brain Folders' using a visual reference guide and drawing activity.
A 20-minute active listening session. Students learn the 'Echo Strategy' using a Magic Ears visual guide and practice multi-step instructions through the Echo Challenge game.
A 20-minute session on sustained attention. Students learn to recognize 'Brain Bubbles' and use the 'Pop It' strategy to stay on track. Includes a Focus Spotlight visual aid for small group discussion.
A 20-minute introduction to task initiation. Students learn to identify the 'Go-Signal' and practice starting tasks immediately using a 'Brain Boss' anchor chart. Adaptable for small group play or individual coaching.
A multi-sensory decoding lesson designed for students with processing challenges, focusing on breaking down multi-syllabic words through a 'Word Detective' agency theme. Students use tactile tapping and visual 'scooping' to master phonetic patterns.
A functional life skills worksheet covering money management, kitchen safety, and personal boundaries for daily independence.
This lesson introduces sensory regulation through the metaphor of a caterpillar's journey, focusing on deep breathing and gentle movement.
A comprehensive lesson designed to teach autistic elementary students essential bus safety skills, focusing on staying seated and keeping hands to self through visual supports and social narratives.
A comprehensive lesson for a 4th-grade student focusing on social-emotional regulation through a social story about sportsmanship, paired with 2nd-3rd grade level math involving regrouping. Includes student independence tools and teacher guidance.
A foundational reading lesson for Pre-K and Kindergarten students in Special Education, focusing on reading simple CVC sentences and identifying key details using visual supports.
An Orton-Gillingham based lesson focusing on short vowels and L/S blends through systematic multisensory instruction.
A targeted assessment lesson focused on translating two-step multiplication and division word problems into accurate number sentences.
An assessment focusing on multi-digit addition and subtraction within 1,000 using the US Standard Algorithm, designed for tracking progress on specific IEP goals.
An assessment focused on independent sentence writing, covering punctuation, capitalization, and handwriting legibility. Includes a student writing prompt and a teacher tracking rubric.
An assessment focused on 3rd-grade reading comprehension, specifically targeting inferential and critical thinking skills using text evidence.
A structured assessment tool for decoding multisyllabic words, focusing on open and closed syllable patterns. Includes a student-facing word list and a teacher-facing progress tracker.
A focused assessment lesson designed to track progress on using connecting words in personal narrative writing, specifically targeting the IEP goal of writing 2-3 grammatical sentences with proper mechanics.
A reading comprehension assessment focused on identifying factual and inferential information and supporting it with text-based evidence, specifically designed for 3rd-grade level goals.
A focused assessment tool for decoding multisyllabic words featuring open/closed syllables and VCCV patterns. Includes a student-facing reading list and a detailed teacher tracking sheet for IEP goal monitoring.
A lesson focused on developing inferential and critical thinking skills for 3rd-grade readers, using a detective-themed approach to "solve" stories by looking for clues.
A targeted assessment lesson focused on addition and subtraction within 100 with regrouping, designed to measure progress toward specific IEP goals.
A straightforward assessment focused on personal narrative writing to track progress toward a specific IEP goal involving sentence structure, grammar, and punctuation.
A targeted assessment lesson focusing on decoding CCVC, CVCC, and CVCe word patterns to track progress towards IEP goals.
A comprehensive assessment suite for tracking Dolch Pre-Primer and Primer sight word mastery in isolation and context. Designed for IEP progress monitoring with a friendly scout-themed aesthetic.
Practical tools and communication materials for rolling out the refined PBIS system to teachers, students, and families.
Preparation and facilitation materials for a 2-day staff workshop focused on PBIS refinement, data analysis, and alignment.
A lesson focused on empowering students with hearing loss to self-advocate for written instructional reinforcements like transcripts and closed captions.
A social-emotional learning lesson designed for a 1st-grade student with autism, using a rollercoaster theme and Social Thinking language to explain the science of brain regulation and the value of breaks.
A social story and visual support set designed to help a 5th-grade student transition smoothly into Social Studies and begin tasks immediately. The materials use a 'Mission' theme to make classroom expectations engaging and clear.
A focused 15-minute daily reading intervention designed for older students (age 10+) struggling with decoding and sight word recall. This lesson combines CVC phonetics, functional survival words, and high-frequency Dolch Second Grade vocabulary using a 'Word Lab' theme to keep the content age-appropriate and engaging.
The final clue in the syllable mystery, focusing on the stable final syllable pattern of a consonant followed by 'le'.
An undercover look at vowel teams, where two vowels work together to create one distinct sound, often the long sound of the first vowel.
Students track down the 'Bossy R' to see how it takes control of vowels, changing their sounds into unique r-controlled patterns.
An investigation into the magic of the silent 'e', which reaches back to make the previous vowel say its name while remaining quiet itself.
Students explore open syllables where the vowel is left 'open' at the end of the syllable, resulting in a long vowel sound.
Students investigate closed syllables, learning that a single vowel followed by one or more consonants is usually short, like a door being 'closed' by the consonants.
A collection of foundational worksheets for early learners focusing on classroom vocabulary and basic numeracy.
A sensitive and empowering lesson designed to help 5th-grade students on the autism spectrum embrace their unique neurobiology and move away from harmful comparisons with neurotypical peers.
A comprehensive lesson on Wilson 5.1 open syllables, featuring a reading passage, fluency practice, word cards, and a sky-themed board game for 2nd grade students.