A comprehensive teacher facilitation guide for Lesson 1, featuring step-by-step instructions, differentiation strategies, and checks for understanding for Kindergarten SPED students.
A planning document for Exceptional Learners Specialists to use when preparing their 15-minute briefings, featuring sections for context, core insights, and anticipated objections.
A versatile slide deck template for Exceptional Learners Specialists to use for 15-minute executive briefings, including slides for context, core insights, and strategic next steps.
A professional menu outlining five specific 15-minute presentation formats for Exceptional Learners Specialists to use with school administrators, featuring timing breakdowns and specific goals.
A clinical tracking sheet for clinicians to monitor a student's vocalic /r/ production during the diner role-play activity. Includes sections for tallying accuracy across all vocalic /r/ types and clinician notes.
Three role-playing scenarios designed for practice of vocalic /r/ sounds in a restaurant setting. Includes scripts for greeting, ordering, and dessert, with a creative writing section for students.
A restaurant menu designed for practicing vocalic /r/ sounds, featuring food items and descriptions saturated with /ar/, /er/, /or/, /air/, /ear/, and /ire/. Underlining is used to highlight target sounds.
A 5-slide introductory presentation for the Vocalic Diner lesson, focusing on visual cues for /ar/, /er/, /or/, /air/, /ear/, and /ire/ sounds in a restaurant context.
A visual choice board for Exceptional Learner Specialists to quickly select a 15-minute briefing track and format. Summarizes targets and 'asks' for all five menu options.
An expanded facilitation guide for Exceptional Learner Specialists, providing detailed talking points and 'asks' for five high-impact tracks. Now includes strategic advice for selecting different briefing formats (Data Deep-Dive, Co-Design, Success Spotlight).
An expanded presentation designed for Exceptional Learners Specialists to choose from five high-impact briefing tracks for district leaders, focusing on PD implementation in scheduling and services. Now includes alternative presentation formats (Data Deep-Dive, Co-Design, Success Spotlight).
Updated sensory room flyer now titled "Nota's Room," featuring four specific rules: one item at a time, quiet voices, walking feet, and no stacking bean bags.
A "Cookie Jar Sort" hands-on matching game where students sort various cookie fraction models (including equivalent fractions like 2/4, 3/6, 2/6, and 2/8) into labeled jars. Includes jars for 1/2, 1/3, and 1/4 with color-coded boundaries to support diverse learners.
A teacher-facing answer key for the Cookie Fraction Quiz, clearly indicating correct answers with visual highlights.
A clear, highly visual quiz page assessing fraction identification, naming, and equivalent fraction concepts. Uses simple language ("Yes/No") and large visual models to reduce cognitive load while verifying student understanding.
A teacher-facing guide providing specific instructional strategies for supporting 3rd-grade students with Down syndrome in learning fractions. Includes tips on concrete manipulatives, language simplified for clarity, and a breakdown of the differentiated worksheet levels.
A set of large-format matching cards. Set 1 features basic fractions (1/2, 1/4) with visual and numerical pairs. Set 2 introduces equivalent visual matching (1/2=2/4, 1/3=2/6) for hands-on exploration of equal parts.
A 4-level differentiated worksheet for 3rd-grade students. Levels range from basic identification to writing fractions and exploring complex equivalent fractions (1/2=3/6, 1/3=2/6, 2/3=4/6) using visually matched cookie pairs. High contrast and ample white space support students with cognitive differences.
A vibrant and highly visual slide deck introducing basic fractions (1/2, 1/3, 1/4) using cookie models. It includes a section on equivalent fractions (1/2 = 2/4, 1/2 = 3/6, 1/3 = 2/6) with large text and clear color-coded indicators to support diverse learners.
A set of visual and numeral cards designed for hands-on sorting and matching activities, helping students connect fraction symbols with their physical representations.
A guide for teachers providing instructional strategies, prompting hierarchies, and lesson pacing specifically for teaching fractions to 3rd-grade students with Down Syndrome.
A comparison worksheet designed to help students discriminate between 1/2 and 1/4 visually, identifying which is larger through side-by-side examples.
A visual worksheet focusing on identifying and coloring 1/4 (quarters) using cookie and geometric visuals. Features scaffolded steps and discrimination tasks.
Highly visual presentation introducing the concepts of 1/2 and 1/4 using pizza visuals, large fonts, and clear comparison aids.
A highly visual worksheet focused on identifying 1/2 and whole parts using a pizza theme. Includes coloring activities and discrimination tasks between equal and unequal parts.
A student worksheet for identifying the difference between feeling scared and excited in various everyday scenarios, using visual icons for Kindergarten SPED.
A step-by-step visual checklist for a calming breathing technique, designed for Kindergarten SPED students to follow along during regulation breaks.