A comprehensive transition lesson designed for high school students to learn how to independently and politely request assistance during complex tasks, covering daily living tech issues, missing tools, and unclear workplace directions.
A comprehensive set of age-appropriate independent task boxes for high school life skills classrooms, targeting sorting, matching, math, words, and community safety. Includes teacher setup guides, student visual directions, and printable task card assets.
A comprehensive cognitive-linguistic lesson teaching high school students evidence-based compensatory strategies for reading comprehension and working memory. Students learn to actively monitor their understanding, chunk information, use visual imagery, and apply self-prompting strategies to become independent learners.
Focuses on the sensory-sensitive transition of changing clothes daily, identifying clean vs. dirty clothes, and managing sensory sensitivities (tags, seams, scents). It includes visual absurdity games (e.g., socks on hands, pizza stinky shirts) and visual routines.
Focuses on sensory-friendly showering routines, washing the body and hair, and using deodorant. It features visual absurdity humor (e.g., showering with cereal, putting deodorant on a banana) and 2-choice visual pointing activities.
A functional life-skills unit focused on mastering 14 crucial community, workplace, emergency, and grocery sight words. Designed with high-contrast, age-appropriate layouts specifically for high school transition and special education classrooms.
Introduction to active reading strategies: annotating, identifying main ideas, and summarizing complex high-interest texts.
Summative assessment on morphology skills including decoding, building, and identifying word parts in context.
Interactive word building challenge using all learned roots, prefixes, and suffixes.
Legal and social roots (jud, jus, leg, civ, pol) found in government and history curriculum.
Psychological and philosophical roots (psych, phobia, soph, phil, mnem) for social science literacy.
Biological and medical roots (corp, cardi, derm, hem, osteo) found in anatomy and health classes.
Modern neologisms and technology-based morphology (cyber, auto, micro, tele) for digital literacy.
Practice building and breaking down multi-morphemic words (words with 3+ parts) common in textbooks.
Deep dive into negative prefixes (in-, im-, il-, ir-, non-) and their phonetic patterns.
Greek roots common in science and technology (bio, psych, path, geo, graph) for technical literacy.
Focus on suffixes that change the part of speech (-ion, -ity, -able, -ize, -ly) and how to identify them in complex sentences.
Exploration of common prefixes (un-, re-, pre-, mis-, dis-) and how they modify root meanings for high school readers.
Introduction to high-frequency Latin roots and how to use them to decode complex academic vocabulary.
Advanced transition tools focused on post-secondary success, career networking, and independent adult living. Updated for professional maturity and document compatibility.
A lesson exploring the neurological impact of screen time and how digital habits interact with executive functioning skills, providing students with practical tools to manage their digital lives.
A comprehensive transition planning lesson designed for high school students with mild to moderate disabilities, focusing on education, employment, and independent living goals for IEP development.
An empowering workshop for 9th-grade students to identify their unique learning profiles and practice requesting accommodations. This lesson builds self-advocacy skills and confidence for future IEP meetings and transitions.
A series of matching worksheets focused on identifying synonyms and antonyms for functional life skills vocabulary across three core domains: self-care, workplace, and community transportation.
A self-advocacy workshop for 9th graders to explore their learning profiles, understand their accommodations as tools for success, and practice requesting support for their transition to 10th grade.
A highly visual lesson designed for students with severe disabilities to identify trusted adults at school, at home, and in the community. Includes multi-sensory prompts and clear visual supports.
A step-by-step instructional sequence for teaching special education students how to find the area of tilted squares using the subtraction (bounding box) method. The lesson breaks down a complex geometric task into simple, repeatable visual steps.
A creative synthesis project where students write postcards from one literary character to another, focusing on voice, perspective, and plot synthesis for 8th-11th grade SpEd students.
A foundational lesson on mean, median, mode, and range designed for students requiring modified curriculum. It features single-digit data sets and step-by-step guided templates to support various learning needs.
Students explore movement energy through common tech like fans, toy cars, and vibrating phones.
Students explore how batteries and wall outlets power our devices and learn to identify which is which.
Students identify technology that uses heat energy, such as toasters and hair dryers, and learn about heat safety.
Students learn how the sun provides energy for everyday items like calculators and outdoor lights.
Students apply their skills to a community context by designing a local park layout using symbols and spatial reasoning.