Developing Narrative Writing Skills Through Assistive Technology

A three-part multi-day decoding sequence where special education students train as spaceship crewmates, mastering short vowel sounds, phoneme blending, and whole CVC word decoding to identify alien impostor words.

Students apply their decoding skills in an Among Us inspired deduction game, reading CVC mission cards, verifying authentic crewmate words, and ejecting impostor words.

Comprehensive teacher master answer key, card directory, emergency vote solution, and post-game phonics debrief protocol for the Impostor Showdown game.

A compassionate, gradual sequence designed for autistic learners to build handwriting tolerance without anxiety, using micro-intervals, sensory regulation, and radical student agency.

Students calibrate thrusters by sounding out and blending individual consonant and vowel phonemes using tactile sound dots and blending slides.

A print-ready student game recording sheet and deduction log where players record decoded words, check Crewmate or Impostor status, and cast emergency ejection votes.

A comprehensive multi-day intervention sequence designed for explicit, repeated rehearsal and mastery tracking of 15 CORE-modeled CVC words, targeting an 80% blending accuracy IEP goal.

Students inspect spaceship fuel canisters by isolating and identifying short vowel sounds (a, e, i, o, u) within CVC words using visual picture supports and sound boxes.

Eight printable spaceship-themed game cards with dashed cut lines, uniform styling, large typography, and tactile sound dots for decoding authentic and impostor CVC words.

A comprehensive middle school special education instructional suite providing scaffolded goal work packets, standardized progress monitoring probes, scoring rubrics, and data tracking sheets across core academic IEP goals.

Expands gentle stamina up to 3 to 5 minutes by introducing collaborative phrase writing, interest-led prompts, and self-advocacy check-ins.

Visual game directions and rules for the Among Us inspired CVC decoding game, tailored for special education small groups and sensory walk activities.