A lesson designed to introduce 1st grade students to Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) devices, focusing on the concept that the device is a student's voice and should be treated with respect.
Students learn the steps of creating a persuasive message, fill out a simplified script, and prepare visual aids to 'sell' the town of Lorenzo to others, focusing on school, safety, and community.
A set of category sorting mats for early learners to practice classification across six familiar themes: Ocean, Beach, Breakfast, Zoo, Garden, and Farm. Each mat provides a visual anchor and designated spaces for four sorting objects.
A comprehensive lesson focused on improving speech intelligibility through the mastery of prosody, specifically targeting volume control, articulatory precision, and intonation patterns.
A lesson focused on mastering digraphs (sh, ch, th, wh, ck) through engaging reading passages and fluency practice.
A comprehensive lesson designed to help students with fine motor struggles master the essential life skills of zipping and buttoning through visual sequencing and hands-on practice.
A decoding lesson focused on CVC nonsense words using a space-exploration theme to build phonemic awareness and blending skills.
A direct instruction lesson focused on phoneme-grapheme mapping to help students decode grade-level vocabulary. This lesson provides a structured "Sound Lab" approach to breaking down unknown words into their individual sounds and corresponding letters.
A comprehensive system for tracking IEP progress across multiple lagging skills, including a master overview and specialized data logs for Academic, Executive Functioning, Social-Emotional, and Functional Life Skills.
A restorative behavioral intervention focused on resolving physical conflict and verbal aggression through a formal behavior contract and daily progress tracking.
A comprehensive safety and transition plan for a 1st-grade student with ASD exhibiting severe school refusal and aggression. This lesson provides teachers with a structured task analysis and student-facing visual supports using a gaming-themed framework.
A self-reflection lesson designed for early elementary students to assess their social and behavioral growth using visual cues.
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A social-emotional learning lesson focused on helping students with autism understand social boundaries, role clarity, and knowing when to disengage from peer interactions, particularly in unstructured settings like the school bus.
A foundational lesson on basic coordinating conjunctions (and, but, or) designed for students with IEPs. The lesson uses visual metaphors of 'glue' and 'connections' to help students understand how words join ideas together.
A simplified lesson on the Artemis II mission to the Moon, designed for students with diverse learning needs. Students explore key science vocabulary and basic facts about the mission through a guided worksheet.
A foundational literacy lesson for non-verbal students focusing on the book 'Shhh! Bears are Sleeping', using visual supports to build vocabulary related to hibernation and seasons.
A pre-primer reading activity designed for students with IEPs, featuring visual icons to support decoding and comprehension of a spring-themed story. The lesson focuses on foundational Wh- questions and simple sentence structures.
A series of hands-on cut-and-paste activities designed to help IEP students master skip counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s through visual patterns and tactile learning.
A foundational sentence structure lesson for IEP students focusing on SVO, compound sentences, adjectives, and WH-questions. Uses a construction theme to make grammar concrete and visual.
The final challenge of the workbook, synthesizing all phonetic knowledge for comprehensive word mastery.
Mastering complex clusters where two sounds slide together, focusing on s-blends, l-blends, and r-blends.
Investigations into special two-letter combinations that create unique single sounds, featuring sh, ch, th, and wh.
Detecting patterns in word endings, students explore common word families to build rhyme and reading fluency.
The first stage of the Sound Detective journey, focusing on the discovery of initial consonant sounds through interactive sentence puzzles.
A lesson focused on slowing down impulsivity and managing performance anxiety during digraph review. It integrates growth mindset principles into explicit decoding practice for UFLI Lesson 49.
A week-long Tier II intervention focused on improving Nonsense Word Fluency through consonant blend mastery. Includes three 30-minute sessions using a 'Secret Agent' theme to engage students in decoding.
A collection of word lists and tracking tools focusing on the 'oa', 'oe', and 'ie' (long i) vowel teams. Designed for structured literacy practice and IEP data collection.
A 30-minute professional development session for K-8 and preschool behavior staff focusing on restorative questioning and the LSCI debriefing framework to repair relationships after behavioral incidents.
A comprehensive set of professional and student-facing tools for documenting social-emotional progress at the end of the school year. Designed to align with Massachusetts IEP requirements while maintaining a supportive, growth-oriented aesthetic for K-2 environments.
A comprehensive progress monitoring collection featuring 5 distinct word sets (75 words total) for tracking mastery of vowel teams and diphthongs. Each set includes a student reading list and a multi-trial teacher tracking sheet.
A progress monitoring tool designed to assess a student's ability to decode words with initial and final s-blends, r-blends, and l-blends. This lesson includes a student reading list and a teacher scoring checklist.
A gamified phonics lesson designed for IEP students, focusing on decoding short 'a' and 'i' words within a retro video game narrative. Includes visual aids and symbol-supported text for accessibility.
Reading passages about Frida Kahlo and Louis Armstrong, exploring creativity through modified text and visual aids.
Reading passages about Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr., focusing on fairness and equality with picture-supported text.
Reading passages about Marie Curie and Albert Einstein, designed with visual supports for students with IEPs.
This lesson explores the Haitian Revolution, Creole cultural traditions, and emotional regulation through the lens of 'Spirit of Resistance.' It provides tiered journal prompts for IEP students to express feelings of anger, resilience, and pride.
A series of progressive worksheets for high school special needs students to master adding mixed US coins using the Touch Point method. each worksheet increases in complexity, covering two, three, and four coin types including pennies.
A targeted instructional unit focusing on mastering one-syllable open and VCe syllables to bridge the gap between CVC decoding and fluent word recognition.
A comprehensive writing packet designed for students with IEPs to reflect on, predict, and imagine their Spring Break experiences through structured scaffolding and visual supports.
A hands-on lesson where students follow a multi-step sequence to create edible art using graham crackers, icing, and toppings. Perfect for practicing fine motor skills and following directions.
A set of visual tools to help students practice and internalize foundational reading comprehension strategies: Read, Visualize, and Check.