Introduces everyday product and food labels, focusing on product names, types, and basic information like size and weight. Includes hands-on exploration of household items.
A powerful professional development lesson for teaching assistants based on Jim Harris's eye-opening presentation "What's Wrong with Kids These Days?". This lesson shifts the perspective from diagnosing student deficits to decoding behavioral communication and building emotional safety.
An evidence-based training program targeting letter reversals in upper elementary students, incorporating Trace-Copy-Cover-Closed and spatial-motor anchors.
A history-of-technology lesson designed for middle school students reading at a first-grade level. It explores the evolution of music formats from vinyl records to modern streaming, supported by a visual timeline and simple vocabulary footnotes.
A personalized lesson framework designed to support a 6th-grade student with autism in developing cognitive flexibility, utilizing a structured social story, visual desk cues, and a targeted SBA Bucks reinforcement tracker.
A gamified behavior tracking and support system designed to structure unstructured school times like recess, lunch, and snack. It includes a weekly AM/PM point-tracking chart and a goal-setting setup guide to promote positive peer interactions, safe play, and self-regulation.
A structured morning routine sequence designed for middle school ASD students to support emotional regulation, sensory tracking, and executive functioning. Includes interactive visual slides and a corresponding daily check-in worksheet to establish a predictable, calming start to the school day.
A highly engaging 30-minute social skills lesson designed for high school IEP groups. This lesson covers five essential communication skills—Perspective Taking, Inclusive Communication, Effective Communication, Active Listening, and Conflict Prevention/Resolution—using a modern 'Social Decoder' blueprint theme.
A transition-focused lesson featuring an accessible "All About Me" survey for middle school students with accommodations, alongside a guide for teachers to translate student responses into IEP goals and classroom support strategies.
A special education lesson designed to teach students with low cognitive abilities how to estimate and understand task durations (quick vs. long tasks) using highly visual, interactive, and structured activities.
A comprehensive IEP goal and instructional toolkit designed to scaffold 9th-grade reading comprehension. This lesson package includes measurable IEP goals, scaffolded graphic organizers, and structured progress monitoring tools focused on making inferences and drawing conclusions.
An interactive and visually-supported career preparation lesson designed to help individuals with special needs identify their job preferences, practice communication skills, and prepare for interviews.
A complete set of high-contrast, professional binder organization kits for Economics, Business Mathematics, Algebra, and Personal Finance. Each kit contains a master index cover page, table of contents, customizable assignment logs, and printable color-coded divider tabs with matching spine inserts.
A specialized grammar and mechanics proofreading lesson themed around a medical 'sentence surgery' metaphor. Designed for high school special education, it breaks down mixed error editing into concrete, scaffolded steps using a visual surgical checklist and hands-on practice.
A systematic classroom management lesson consisting of a self-guided student worksheet and a teacher protocol guide, designed to manage high school behavioral disruptions with low-stimulus interventions.
A highly visual, color-coded math lesson introducing mean, median, mode, and range to IEP students using adorable pet shelter statistics. Highly structured layout with minimal text density and supportive visual cues.
A grammar assessment designed for middle school students in a self-contained classroom reading at a first-grade level. The quiz covers past-tense verbs, common/proper nouns, singular/plural nouns, and identifying parts of speech (noun, verb, adjective) in simple context, complete with a teacher answer key.
A structured visual and narrative routine designed to support a kindergarten student with severe special needs in riding the bus safely. Features a dedicated monitor read-aloud script and highly focused, large-format visual cue cards.
A structured, visual-first conversational game designed for speech therapists, special education teachers, and paraprofessionals to support low-cognitive students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The lesson uses a concrete train-track motif to scaffold three essential conversational skills: sharing matching interests, relating to topics, and extending dialogue.
A functional life skills lesson for high school transition students focused on workplace hygiene, grooming, and safety-based dress codes across multiple environments. Includes structured slides, tiered student worksheets, interactive roleplays, and a career appearance mannequin activity.
A comprehensive functional life skills unit teaching hygiene independence, self-advocacy, and workplace readiness for middle and high school special education students. Includes visual matching, body signal decoding, safe-adult communication scripts, sourcing maps, emergency kit preparation, and workplace scenario analysis.
A 5-day summer occupational therapy program for 4th and 5th graders themed around a 'Secret Agent Academy'. It focuses on fine motor precision, finger dexterity, pencil control, and handwriting alignment through highly engaging, covert missions.
A comprehensive lesson designed for special education high school students to master figurative language, sarcasm, and idioms in independent living and real-world daily scenarios.
A targeted lesson for high school special education students focusing on identifying and interpreting figurative language, sarcasm, and idioms in daily independent living and social situations.
A modified, highly visual math lesson on Mean, Median, Mode, and Range tailored for IEP students. Features visual anchor charts with picture symbols, step-by-step color-coded graphic organizers, task cards with hands-on counting counters, and highly scaffolded worksheets.
A practical transition lesson designed to teach students how to identify, assess, and responsibly respond to 20 realistic emergency scenarios across home, community, and vocational settings.
A detailed literary exploration of Chapters 6-10 of Natalie Babbitt's Tuck Everlasting. Students analyze Winnie's reactions to the Tucks' messy, timeless lifestyle compared to her own orderly home, focusing on her growing internal choices and the concept of living outside the wheel of life.
A literary investigation of the prologue through chapter 5 of Natalie Babbitt's Tuck Everlasting. Students explore setting contrasts and the mysterious meeting between Winnie and Jesse, while teachers leverage structured scaffolds and checks for understanding.
A visual, highly structured lesson designed to teach individuals with intellectual disabilities essential workplace social skills. The lesson covers greetings, personal space, appropriate topic selection, asking for help, and receiving supervisor feedback through interactive slides, visual social stories, and printable role-play scenario cards.
An accommodated, highly-scaffolded study guide and lesson resources focused on the 'Dr. Holiday' chapter of Walter Dean Myers' memoir, Bad Boy. Students explore character traits, comparison of adult figures, vocabulary, and cause-and-effect relationships surrounding Walter's behavior.
A highly differentiated, 3-hour career exploration lesson for adults with disabilities, focusing on four high-growth career sectors. It features visual, reflective, and discussion-based pathways tailored to individual support needs.
Session 8 synthesizes the 8-week journey. The student compiles their logs into a personalized confidence guide and celebrates their testing achievements.
Session 7 explores more complex decisions under pressure, teaching the student how to weigh risks and rewards using a simple visual rating tool.
Session 6 addresses social interactions. The student learns low-demand social scripts and structured visual recipes for peer connection.
Session 5 covers processing unexpected outcomes. The student learns to analyze results without self-blame, using a structured "trail debugging" framework.
Session 4 focuses on gradually expanding the comfortable operating zone by setting up and running tiny, controlled trials in a safe environment, mapping Core, Stretch, and Storm zones.
Session 3 introduces structured decision-making. The student learns to map decisions into binary "trail forks," reducing cognitive overload and paralysis.
Session 2 re-frames the fear of trying new things. The student learns to treat new activities as low-stakes "scouting runs" where mistakes are just "terrain map data."
Session 1 establishes the "Field Guide" and "Wildwood Scouting" metaphor, helping the student identify their individual strengths as "field gear specs" to build baseline confidence.
A comprehensive IEP goal draft and progress tracking system designed for a sixth-grade student to build autonomy, utilize resources, show math work, and self-monitor during struggles.
A highly scaffolded, visual lesson on mean, median, mode, and range tailored specifically for students with IEPs and learning differences. Features structured fill-in-the-blank formula templates, graphic organizers, and leveled worksheets.
An inspiring lesson exploring the life of Dr. Temple Grandin, her experiences with autism, and how she used her unique sensory perspective and engineering skills to design emotional regulation tools like the 'squeeze machine'. Students read a biography, explore real-world examples of sensory regulation, and reflect on their own sensory needs.
A collection of executive functioning resources designed to help students master school-day transitions, arrival, and dismissal routines using visual desk checklists, a modeled presentation, and a comprehensive teacher guide.
A comprehensive Wilson-aligned study of multisyllabic words and suffixes. Students practice syllable division using visual scooping and explore word meanings.