Students learn the technique of starting from a deadline and working backward to schedule tasks effectively.
A collection of resources to help students with low reading levels identify their vocational interests across four key industries using simple language and visual cues.
Teaching students the 'Next Dollar Up' strategy to successfully make purchases without needing to calculate exact change, focusing on items up to $10.
Encourage joint attention and exploration through the core words Open and Look.
Develop social interaction skills and transition management using Mine, You, Finished, and Turn.
Focus on expressing preferences and seeking assistance using core words Like, Don't Like, and Help.
Introduce the primary 'power words' (Go, Stop, More, Want) to establish basic requesting and agency in play-based settings.
A comprehensive transition planning toolset focused on identifying community-based vocational interests and functional skills through student input and teacher observation.
A culminating activity rotating through communication stations to demonstrate mastery of all skills.
Focusing on social pragmatics including 'Hello', 'Goodbye', and 'Thank You' on TouchChat.
Using Yes/No responses to identify or guess items in a tactile mystery box.
Refining choice-making by presenting less obvious preferences and increasing complexity.
Integrating learned communication symbols into daily 1st-grade classroom routines.
Establishing basic Yes and No responses using visual aids and AAC buttons.
Introducing the 'Help' symbol for navigating obstacles and requesting assistance.
Modeling and prompting the 'More' symbol during sensory and high-engagement tasks.
Using the 'Go' symbol on TouchChat to initiate movement and play activities.
Introduction to making a choice between two highly preferred items using TouchChat and physical indicators.
A specialized writing intervention lesson using Roblox themes to help students master basic sentence structure, capitalization, and punctuation through sentence frames and word banks.
A lesson designed for two first-graders to learn how to replace screaming and eloping with verbal communication using a feelings chart. Through role-play and visual aids, students practice identifying their emotions and stating their needs.
A comprehensive toolkit of data collection sheets for tracking various types of IEP goals, including frequency, duration, and trial-based skill acquisition.
A comprehensive lesson on identifying and matching essential safety signs from community, household, road, and workplace environments. This lesson focuses on visual discrimination and functional literacy through picture-to-picture matching tasks.
The final lesson of the sequence, reviewing all prefixes, suffixes, and roots with a cumulative assessment.
Covers the Latin root 'ject' (throw), emphasizing the physical meanings behind abstract academic terms.
Explores the Latin root 'struct' (build), using word trees to visualize how multiple morphemes combine.
Focuses on the Latin root 'port' (carry), connecting it to familiar words like 'transport' and 'portable'.
Introduces the Latin root 'spect' (look), identifying it in common multisyllabic academic words.
A review of all suffixes covered, featuring a 'Suffix Showdown' game and a progress monitoring check.
Focuses on the quantity-based suffixes -ful and -less, using contrasting word pairs to build understanding.
Explores suffixes -ment and -ity, emphasizing how they transform verbs and adjectives into abstract nouns.
Examines noun-forming suffixes -tion and -sion, focusing on spelling patterns and syllable division.
Shifts focus to suffixes -able and -ible, helping students determine when to use each based on the root word.
A review lesson of all prefixes covered in the first four lessons, including a quick progress monitoring assessment.
Introduces time-based prefixes pre- and post-, focusing on academic vocabulary used in history and science contexts.
Investigates prefixes dis- and mis- to understand words related to opposites and errors, featuring word-sorting activities.
Focuses on identifying and using common prefixes like un- and re- to decode and understand multisyllabic words. Includes word building and sentence application.
Covers the 'not' prefixes in-, im-, il-, and ir-, exploring how spelling changes based on the root word's initial letter.
Program review, celebration of growth, and completion of the EF Post-Test.
Instruction on effective note-taking and test-taking strategies tailored for middle school.
Practical strategies to defeat procrastination and streamline homework routines.
