Visual Scanning Strategies

A collection of matching visual aids and signs to help manage classroom routines and expectations, including entry and exit procedures.

A rapid, action-oriented lesson designed for school leaders to analyze, audit, and draft their All-Tier Systemic MTSS leadership team in under five minutes.

A reading comprehension lesson designed for 3rd-grade special education. It includes three narrative passages with three paragraphs each, focusing on sequencing events and literal recall questions (who, what, where).

A reading comprehension lesson focused on narrative sequencing and simple literal recall for 3rd-grade special education students. Features three engaging, three-paragraph short stories with tailored open-ended questions.

A structured, action-oriented lesson to teach parking lot safety rules, emphasizing the "Stop, Look, Hold Hands" routine and staying next to the vehicle.

A concrete, sensory-friendly lesson teaching children how to identify "safe adults" (police officers, store employees) and use structured communication routines if separated from a caregiver.

A highly visual, structured lesson focusing on understanding traffic lights, pedestrian crosswalk signals, and the action-steps for crossing the street safely.

A highly structured, sensory-friendly lesson designed for children aged 6-8 with autism to learn and practice critical community safety directions through social narratives, visual support cards, and hands-on matching games.

A rapid, action-oriented lesson designed for school leaders to analyze, audit, and draft their All-Tier Systemic MTSS leadership team in under five minutes.

A comprehensive IEP support packet focused on third-grade task initiation and planning within the writing process. Includes teacher data tracking, structured graphic organizers, and self-monitoring visual checklists to help students start writing without getting stuck.

A student-led advocacy lesson focused on identifying school accessibility barriers and understanding special education careers. Students learn to collaborate with specialists, co-teachers, and therapists to make their school welcoming and accessible to everyone.

A comprehensive administrative coaching package designed to help school leaders transition Special Education teachers from general compliance monitoring to a highly responsive, data-driven coaching model across four core instructional domains.

A structured weekly daily oral language (DOL) routine for 4th-grade special education students, focusing on sentence combining, subject-verb agreement, sight word spelling, and punctuation. Features scaffolding, systematic practice, and highly legible layouts.

A lesson focused on developing real-world inferencing skills for tenth-grade students with special needs. Through life-skills scenarios, students learn to combine textual clues with prior knowledge to make logical conclusions.

A collection of diagnostic screeners and specialized lesson planning templates designed for self-contained special education classrooms. These tools provide baseline student data and structure multi-sensory lessons to achieve target IEP goals.

High-level and detailed academic roadmaps outlining the bridging of CCSS and NJSLS for SLD students. It provides a structured, standards-aligned pathway to close foundational gaps and transition towards grade-level concepts.

A comprehensive IEP progress monitoring assessment kit featuring baseline and progress checks for skip counting, basic facts to 20, and double-digit addition without regrouping.

A comprehensive social emotional learning lesson designed to help children navigate fears of the outdoors, specifically focusing on sensory overload (loud noises, bright lights, weather) and unpredictable insects. Includes an interactive social story workbook, visual coping cards, and a teacher support guide.

A comprehensive restorative dialogue system designed to repair relationships and re-integrate students after emotional outbursts, featuring a teacher scripting guide and highly visual student communication support cards.

A cohesive suite of tabletop task stations, reusable binder sheets, print-and-go worksheets, and teacher data tracking sheets designed for ESY students with mild/moderate disabilities and autism. Focuses on functional math (counting objects), emotional literacy (identifying emotions), and functional sight words.

An Extended School Year (ESY) summer packet combining targeted skill-building in main idea, two-syllable words, story elements, paragraph writing, division, and multi-step word problems. Features visual scaffolds, grids, graphic organizers, and multi-level tasks spanning grades 1 to 6.

A complete visual behavior support kit for a kindergarten student experiencing frustration-based behaviors after graduating from small group reading. Includes a teacher-parent behavior plan, daily desk tracker, coping and reading strategy cards, assistant principal break coupons, and a weekly home communication log.

A comprehensive lesson for high school students with developmental disabilities focusing on the outermost circle of the Circles Curriculum: Community Helpers. It includes interactive slides, a structured script worksheet, ready-to-use role-play scenario cards, and a teacher facilitation guide.

A training suite for Speech-Language Pathologists to master Lenny.com, featuring an engaging slide presentation and a quick-reference printout covering visual supports, articulation tools, IEP aids, and collaboration templates.

A complete visual support and routine mastery pack designed for older elementary and neurodivergent students. Includes a wall poster, individual task cards, a progress tracker, and a comprehensive implementation guide to foster dignity and privacy.

A comprehensive visual support system designed for older elementary and neurodivergent students to promote bathroom independence. Includes a stall-side routine poster, a sink-side handwashing guide, and printable individual visual support cards styled with a clean, modern aesthetic.

A comprehensive lesson for Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) designed to navigate the dual pathways of AAC funding. This lesson equips SLPs with the procedural knowledge, advocacy scripts, template documentation, and data sheets required to secure communication devices for students via school-funded and medically-funded pathways.

A highly visual, structured summer safety lesson designed for students with special needs and lower cognitive abilities, focusing on outdoor play and water safety rules through interactive sorting and clear visual cues.

A sensory-friendly class rotation framework containing visual schedules and portable schedule cards to help students navigate activity transitions with confidence.

An IEP progress assessment bundle designed for a 3rd-grade student working on literal comprehension and complete-sentence responses using sentence frames. Includes three 15-question worksheets across literary and informational passages, along with a comprehensive teacher tracking guide.

Students practice making independent choices, expressing preferences, and setting boundaries (saying "yes" or "no") using structured choice boards, tactile sorting mats, and interactive role-play.

Students practice identifying when they need help, who to ask (teachers, peers, or helpers), and how to communicate that need using visual phrase cards and guided collaborative practice.

Students learn to recognize and communicate physical and emotional states (like tired, hungry, overwhelmed, or ready to learn) using simple gestures, vocalizations, or visual symbol cards.

A 4-week space explorer themed morning meeting series for middle school ESY scholars with disabilities. Led by Commander Sosnoff, it covers Mars Rover, Asteroid Navigation, Saturn Rings, and Nebula sectors with calendar ship logs, cosmic energy checks, stellar affirmations, and turn-and-talk communication prompts.

Introduces early 3-digit numbers (100-120), visual skip-counting (2s, 5s, 10s) using constellation maps, and ordering cosmic objects to build sequential logic.

Focuses on identifying double-digit numbers (10-99), representing them using ten-frames and printable base-ten icons, and writing numbers in expanded place value charts (tens and ones) with clear physical boundaries.

Covers single-digit subtraction (1-9) with cosmic countdowns, crossing-out stars or rocket fuel cells, embedded touch-points for backwards counting, and structured workspace templates.

Focuses on single-digit addition (1-9) using embedded touch-point numbers, pictorial representations of spaceships and stars, a persistent 1-20 number path, and large guided workspace boxes for physical alignment.

Week 2 focuses on mastering whole-number regrouping and multi-column carrying in the context of starship cargo inventories. Students use base-10 blocks to bundle ones into tens and tens into hundreds, bridging visual modeling directly to standard vertical algorithms.

Week 3 of the Kitchen Math Masters unit. Focuses on kitchen timers, elapsed time, adjusting cook times, understanding food label servings, and conducting a mock cafe simulation.

Week 2 of the Kitchen Math Masters unit. Focuses on money identification, estimation via the Dollar Up method, ingredient budgeting, and simple subtraction for calculating change.

Week 1 of the Kitchen Math Masters unit. Focuses on physical measurement tools, identifying whole and fractional volumes, and simple doubling/halving using visual cooking supports.

Week 4 focuses on standard algorithm decimal addition and subtraction, multi-step problem consolidation, and direct assessment of skills to confirm crew flight readiness.

Week 3 focuses on multi-step additive reasoning, decimal subtraction, and aligning coordinates using star charts and compass tools to plan flight vectors for the fleet.

Week 2 focuses on decimal addition and subtraction with and without regrouping, using visual decimal grids and standard plastic base-10 blocks to represent tenths and hundredths in solar charging grid scenarios.

Week 1 focuses on deepening place value understanding and multi-step addition of decimals and whole numbers in space grid systems. Students practice regrouping tenths and wholes, balancing battery loads, and tracking fuel payload readings.

Resources and tools for special education teachers to draft objective, data-driven, and clinically professional progress reports for student IEP goals.

A set of parent-friendly guides translating psychoeducational test scores into positive, actionable home support roadmaps.

A comprehensive visual support bundle designed for student emotional self-regulation, featuring an interactive board, PECS-style communication cards, a data tracker, and a step-by-step implementation guide.

A comprehensive toolkit of visual ice breakers designed for high school life skills classrooms, featuring high-contrast visual choice boards, point-to-select options, structured sentence frames, and clear facilitator guidance to support diverse communication needs.