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Got students who thrive on routine? This interactive social story turns school expectations into an easy, friendly walk-through they can actually enjoy.

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Starting school can feel like stepping onto a brand-new planet, especially for students who love structure, visual support, and predictable moments. This Going to School Social Skills Story | Interactive Adapted Book for SPED helps turn that giant leap into a smooth little hop.

Inside the book, students move through simple routines like getting ready, walking into class, and following classroom expectations. Every page has interactive pieces that keep little hands busy while their brains make sense of what’s happening at school.

It’s super easy to use during morning meeting, SEL time, behavior lessons, or one-on-one practice. Teachers love it because it’s clear. Students love it because it’s hands-on. Everyone wins.

What’s Inside

  • A Social Skills Story
  • A friendly social story adapted book
  • Interactive matching pieces
  • Clear visuals made for SPED, autism classrooms, preschool, and early elementary

Great For

  • Back-to-school season
  • Teaching routines and transitions
  • Autism support
  • Speech sessions
  • Counseling and SEL

If you want a simple tool that helps students feel prepared and confident, this Story and adapted book is your new classroom buddy.

Engaging Students: A Guide to Creating Interactive Adapted Books for kids

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“Are you struggling to keep your special education students engaged in pre-reading material? Look no further! In this post, we will guide you through creating interactive adapted books that will effortlessly engage your students and make reading fun and exciting.”

Not only will these adapted books provide a fun and interactive pre-reading experience for your students, but they will also meet the specific needs and abilities of each individual student. By incorporating visual aids, manipulatives, and other interactive elements, these books will enhance comprehension and build a love for learning. Follow along as we break down the steps to creating your own adapted books.

Incorporating Interactive Elements for Enhanced Learning

An adapted book can be simplified for young learners and kids in Special Education to access. The main objectives of these type of adapted books is to comment on what they see on the page, identify the visual to answer the “I can see” question, learn story vocabulary and answer “who”questions about the animal characters in the story.

  • So attaching detachable visuals will enable the learner to answer questions.
  • Having a selection of visuals to choose from will establish a correspondence check for accuracy.
  • Using a comprehensive accompanied book with visuals will check understanding.
  • Vocabulary check cards can help with naming the corresponding characters, items or animals.
  • The Benefits of these Interactive Adapted Books
  1. Using interactive resources can help your young learners and non verbal students access popular stories and their characters, practice story sequencing skills, increasing motivation and interest, promote independence, and enhancing comprehension.
  2. Learners are able to practice receptive and expressive language skills, Vocabulary, sequencing and Math and Literacy.

Using adapted Books in SPED

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Its not as hard as it sound to adapt any favourite book and make it interactive! You can target so many skills, like sentence starters, colour, shape, sentence structure, and sequencing, for Special Ed students.

I decided not to adapt a shop book but create and direct a version towards communication and understanding in more depth that would be more meaningful for young SPED students.

I loved simplifying these popular stories so my young learners could access them, especially Fairy-tale favourites. It was fantastic to seeing them learning to comment on what they were seeing in the book, remembering the story sequence, identifying the visuals to answer the “I can see questions, learning Story vocabulary and answer “who “questions about these characters.

I couldn’t stop incorporating more learning strategies into these story sets and added story words, (story vocab on a ring) to teach character recognition.

and sequencing boards and cards!

Once printed out on card stock they were quick and easy to laminate and assemble with a ring binders and Velcro for visuals.