Workplace Launchpad

A lesson focused on supporting students with disabilities as they transition into the workplace, utilizing resources from the Ontario Transition Resource Guide.

A biology lesson on modeling the carbon cycle, redesigned from a Universal Design for Learning (UDL) lens to support students with learning disabilities using multi-sensory strategies, color-coded visual organizers, and scaffolded vocabulary cards.

A structured language lesson bundle for 10th-grade special education students focusing on functional workplace vocabulary. Students will learn and practice identifying synonyms, antonyms, related words, and hierarchical relationships (e.g., job roles and work settings) to build independence.

A comprehensive transition planning lesson designed to help high school students with disabilities successfully navigate the shift to Ontario colleges. Students learn the differences between high school and college accommodations, explore documentation requirements, and research specific college accessibility services.

A student-focused lesson introducing adult community services, self-advocacy, and financial funding in Ontario. Includes an interactive transition booklet and a comprehensive facilitation guide for teachers.

A comprehensive lesson bundle designed for transition-aged students to master the critical life skill of task sequencing. This lesson breaks down essential household chores and self-care routines into logical, sequential steps, providing educators with a structured facilitation guide, visual anchor charts, hands-on task cards, and an assessment tool.

A career-focused lesson where students explore apprenticeships and trades using the Transition Resource Guide. Students complete a WebQuest to understand the apprenticeship path and use a Graphic Organizer to map out their chosen trade.

A gamified, science-backed cognitive-behavioral curriculum designed to help high school students with ADHD build executive function, emotional regulation, and focus strategies through actionable real-world challenges.

This lesson introduces and structures the '1, 2, 3' transition protocol (1: Organize, 2: Stand, 3: Move) to establish class-wide efficiency. Through modeling, guided practice, and independent application, students master essential classroom routines.

A formal cumulative diagnostic assessment taking place after Lesson 50a. It serves as the Unit 6 Vowel Team Reading Inventory, evaluating individual student spelling, reading accuracy, connected fluency, and positional sorting.

A rigorous, comprehensive cumulative review lesson taking place after Lesson 50. It provides heavy comparison across all learned Unit 6 vowel teams (ai/ay, ee/ea/ey, oa/ow/oe, ie/igh) through spelling-position games, phrase-level decoding, and rapid reading fluency drills.

An application-focused reading intervention lesson reinforcing all learned long vowel teams (ai/ay, ee/ea/ey, oa/ow/oe, ie/igh) in connected reading and spelling. Designed for high school struggling readers, this lesson incorporates a robust r-controlled vowel warm-up and dictation tasks.

A cumulative review lesson integrating all learned long vowel teams (ai/ay, ee/ea/ey, oa/ow/oe, ie/igh) with multisyllabic syllable awareness and visual chunking tasks.

An application-focused reading intervention lesson reinforcing ie/igh vowel teams in connected reading and spelling. Designed for high school struggling readers, this lesson integrates a cumulative long-vowel team review (ai/ay, ee/ea/ey, oa/ow/oe) and dictation tasks.

An explicit, highly scaffolded reading intervention lesson introducing long i vowel teams (ie, igh) while reviewing silent-e (i_e) through structured word sorting, guided spelling comparison, and phrase reading.

An application-focused reading intervention lesson reinforcing oa/ow/oe vowel teams in connected reading and spelling. Designed for high school struggling readers, this lesson integrates a cumulative long-vowel team review (ai/ay, ee/ea/ey) and dictation tasks.

An explicit, highly scaffolded reading intervention lesson introducing long o vowel teams (oa, ow, oe) while reviewing silent-e (o_e) through structured word sorting, guided spelling comparison, and phrase reading.

An application-focused reading intervention lesson reinforcing ee/ea/ey vowel teams in connected reading and spelling. Designed for high school struggling readers, this lesson contrasts vowel teams with the silent-e (e_e) pattern and reviews previous long a spellings.

An explicit, highly scaffolded reading intervention lesson introducing long e vowel teams (ee, ea, ey) while reviewing long a vowel teams (ai, ay) through structured word sorting, guided reading, and spelling rules.

An application-focused reading intervention lesson reinforcing ai/ay vowel teams in connected reading and spelling. Designed for high school struggling readers, this lesson incorporates a robust r-controlled vowel review and advanced word sorting.

An explicit, highly scaffolded reading intervention lesson focusing on the long a spelling patterns ai and ay. Designed for high school struggling readers, this lesson contrasts these new vowel teams with the familiar silent-e (a_e) pattern through structured decoding, word analysis, and writing tasks.

A scaffolded biology project designed for students with IEPs to master cell structures and functions by comparing them to familiar school roles and areas. Includes a highly structured graphic organizer, a simplified rubric, and modeling slides.

A formal mastery assessment designed to track high school students' decoding accuracy, spelling, and phonetic discrimination across all major r-controlled vowel families.

A comprehensive IEP goal planning and progress tracking system designed to transition a student from shared aide dependence to independent classroom work completion.

An intensive review lesson designed to reinforce r-controlled vowel patterns (ar, or, ore, er, ir, ur, wor) through oral sound sorts, mixed word reading, and sentence-level application.

A life-skills-focused lesson where students learn to write a formal thank-you note to State Representative Sean Garballey using visual planners, errorless cut-and-paste choice strips, and a printable fold-over greeting card. This lesson scaffold is optimized for students with diverse fine-motor and cognitive needs.

Students explore how schedules are used across various career paths, analyze real-world shift and appointment schedules, and practice reading workplace timetables.

Practical tools and templates for tracking daily student performance, self-reflection, and home-school communication for young adults preparing for independent life.

A speech-language therapy lesson designed to teach minimally verbal autistic students how to read and comprehend a school visual schedule, building academic vocabulary and independence.

A real-world functional math lesson designed for life skills students. Students navigate a supermarket to locate pantry staples, snack items, and frozen foods, practicing next-dollar-up calculations and pricing comparison.

A cumulative high school reading intervention review lesson consolidating all r-controlled vowel patterns (ar, or, ore, er, ir, ur, wor) and introducing the 'wor' spelling pattern after 'w'.

An intensive reading intervention lesson introducing 'ir' and 'ur' as alternative spelling patterns for the r-controlled sound /er/, contrasting them with 'er'.