Teaching Play Skills

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My Cook Book will Teach play skills using visual instructions.

Home pretend play visuals for cooking and Communication. Students with Autism/Special Education often find pretend play difficult. I’ve found that using visuals and sequencing the lesson will assist in developing these play skills within your student.

Visuals and recipes Included

How to make a Beef burger

How to make a Hot dog

How to make fries

This Cook Book is designed for students who have limited play and verbal skills.

  • The visuals assists in the early stages of pretend play
  • learn the sequence of pretend play
  • Enable students to engage in play
  • They’re able to practice steps with common play food.
  • Can use visuals to request what they want to make, what they will need and practice vocabulary.

To make up the Cook Book

  • Cut out pages
  • laminate and bind
  • cut out visuals and laminate

Back to School – All About me

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A resource to help you get to know new students and for them to practice
sharing information about themselves.

These simple All about me passport pages are perfect for kids in pre-k, kindergarten and Special Education, I use these with my new students yearly and are a great way to start my morning lesson, especially now that I’ve popped them in a binder to use over and over again!

This interactive resource allows my kids with limited reading and writing skills use the visuals to share a few important things about themselves.  

I love getting to know my new kids and this activity binder make it quick and easy to find out their likes and dislikes and assess the visual learners basic skills!

I’ve adapt this activity for kids into 2 different levels of learning, one with pictures and the other with just the word. Included in these pages are:-

Name space (students can practice their name )
My gender is
My hair colour is
My eye colour is
My favorite colour
My favorite pet
My favorite toy
My favorite food
My favorite drink
My favorite snack
I know my shapes
I know my colours
I know my numbers
This is me (where your student can draw himself)

All About me

It is part of my All about me bundle in my TPT store.

Reduce Frustration with Calm Down Strategies

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Visual supports can help reduce frustration by giving non verbal students a way to Communicate. Having a variety of activities that are available in class and being able to ask for what is wanted can help reduce behavior throughout the day.

This is why I always keep a selection of visual choices handy in my calm down area, ready for when problems arise! Struggling students are able to find the visual displayed on a board that will help them reduce these emotions to carry on learning.

I display only the visuals that are available to the students on given days and a wider choice throughout the week.

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Ultimate Calm Down Tools

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Id like to share some of the behaviour strategies I use with my young learners with Autism/Special needs. They provide support and structure in my behaviour support plans and run in conjunction with ABA management’. My students use these on a daily basis!

Behavior Reflection – For students to recognise their feelings and how it effects their behavior

Calm Down schedule – For students to remember the tools they can use to calm themselves.

Social Stories – To read and learn social skills do and don’ts!

Classroom Rules – To follow and remember what behavior is expected

CLICK HERE for MORE information on how to set up Calm Down Tools for your classroom

Keep Students Organised in SPED

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Keeping an organised class has been much easier since I created My daily planner for my young learners.

On Page 1,2 – About me

Pages 3-4 include days of the week and seasons

pg. 5-6 schedules

pg. 7-8 working for

pg. 9 -10 When I’m feeling angry

Once laminated I gave out dry wipe markers for my students to jot down their name, grade and class, followed by teachers name, their friends name, things they like and things they don’t.

There are pages with the days of the week for my student to practice and tick off what day it is and same for seasons.

I’ve added pages for them to write out their daily schedule and tick off as they go though it.

Working for cards and reward choice were a exciting addition!

What to remember when you feel angry, “first and then” when frustrations grow and what I need visuals has made “My Daily Planner” a valuable resource for any pre school, Autism or Special Ed Classroom.