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Spring Counting Task Cards
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Spring Counting Task Cards

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This activity is a fun, interactive and engaging way for your students to work on their number recognition and counting skills during Spring. Students need to count the different items on each of the task cards and then choose their answer out of 3 possible choices on the right hand side of the task card. Your students will love working on their counting skills with these fun and engaging Spring themed task cards. I recommend laminating all of the task cards included. This will make them stronger, longer lasting and reusable in the future. The task cards cover from 0-10. There are 33 different task cards included. ** Instructions** Print out the task cards. Cut and laminate the task cards. Provide your students with dry wipe pens or clothing pegs for your students to select their answers. There are 3 different types of counting task cards included; Count the spots on the bug Count the petals on the flower Count the eggs in the nest. These task cards fit perfectly into photo storage boxes - making it easy for you to stay organised and keep all the pieces together.
Spring Rhyming Activity
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These task cards are a fun and engaging addition to your rhyming activities and centers. Students need to piece together the 2 pieces of the raindrop to match together the words/images that rhyme together. This is an engaging way for your students to work on their rhyming skills, as well as their fine motor skills. There are 10 different rhyming puzzles included in this pack. Your students will love working on their literacy skills with these puzzles. I recommend laminating all of the pieces included. This will make them stronger, longer lasting and reusable in the future. Instructions Print out the pages included. Cut and laminate the pieces of the raindrops. Lay the pieces out for your students to put the raindrops together to match the rhyming words together. These task cards fit perfectly into photo storage boxes - making it easy for you to stay organised and keep all the pieces together.
Emotions Feelings Yes / No Questions
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Emotions Feelings Yes / No Questions

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This resource contains 24 different task cards giving students the choice of two answers - yes or no - to the question at the top. Each task card contains 1 question, 1 image and 2 answers. The task cards are all in the theme of Feelings / Emotions. These task cards come in col and b/w option for your preference. They are a great way to encourage students to pay attention to detail, the image that they are looking at and to answer appropriately. I recommend cutting out each card individually and laminating so that they will be stronger and longer lasting. Students can complete with a dry wipe pen or a peg so that they can be used again.
Emotions / Feelings Bingo Game
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Emotions / Feelings Bingo Game

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This bingo pack is the perfect addition to your feelings and emotions activities. Students will love working on recognizing different feelings and being able to match these to their bingo board. There are 22 bingo boards included in this pack, which will allow you to have up to 22 players taking part at once with this activity. You can also use this with smaller group activities, or even at 1:1 work stations. What’s Included? 22 Bingo Boards Mini Image and Word Feelings Flashcards Mini Word Feelings Flashcards Feelings Image and Word Flashcards Bingo Cover Ups How to Use? Hand out the bingo boards to players. Provide players with a set of bingo cover ups or manipulatives. Use any of the 3 types of flashcards to call out the feelings. If students have the same feeling on their board, they cover it up. The first student to cover all their feelings on their board shouts ‘Bingo’ and they are the winner. Other Uses Although this is a bingo pack, the activities included can be used in a range of others ways too, such as; Discussion. Look at the flashcards. Think of a reason that the boy/girl may feel like that. Questions. Lay out some different flashcards. “If I bought you an ice cream, but then you dropped it on the floor, how do you think you would feel?” And the student points to or selects one of the feelings on the flashcards. Matching. A simple matching game. Match the flashcards to the images on the bingo boards. . This activity is a fun and engaging way to help students work on and understand different feelings and emotions. Instructions Print out the bingo boards, flashcards and bingo cover ups that you’ll be using. Print out a set of bingo cover ups for each child. Decide which flashcard you will use and then print. Laminate the bingo boards. Cut up and laminate the flashcards and bing cover ups then, laminate them.
St Patrick's Day Adapted Books, Sentence Building
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St Patrick's Day Adapted Books, Sentence Building

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This pack includes 10 different sentence building / adapted books all related to St Patrick's Day theme. This is a great resource to use with students who may have autism / spec ed needs. The books come in differing abilities so that you can differentiate for individual abilities. 6 books come in b/w and col option, 4 books come only in col option. The books include; ♦ What col Leprechaun? - two symbols ♦ How many objects? - two symbols ♦ How many col Leprechauns? - three symbols ♦ I can see objects - four symbols ♦ I can see col Leprechauns - five symbols ♦ I see counting col Leprechauns - five symbols ♦ Easy prepositions - one symbol ♦ Harder prepositions - three symbols ♦ Full sentence prepositions - six symbols ♦ What object? - one symbol ♦ Verbs - one symbol ♦ What doing? Verbs - one symbol (fit into sentence) Each book comes with instructions included on the first page on how you can put this book together to get the best possible use out of it. The vocabulary is suitable for American or British classrooms. (Color, Colour etc.) These books are great to help students build up and work on their sentences. It encourages students to select the correct words(symbols) to match the picture they are looking at as well as being able to place them in the correct order to build an appropriate sentence. All images/vocabulary is used to St Patrick's Day.
Chinese New Year Sentence Building Pack, Adapted Books
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Chinese New Year Sentence Building Pack, Adapted Books

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This pack includes 6 different sentence building / adapted books all related to the theme of Chinese New Year. These books are great for a Spec Ed or Autism Classroom / working with Spec Ed or students with Autism. It helps them pay closer attention to detail of what they are seeing, and slowly start to explain what they can see through symbols, and start to build sentences. The books include; ♦ What? object book - one symbol ♦ What? zodiac animal book - one symbol ♦ Zodiac animal book - 'I can see a monkey' - four symbols ♦ Prepositions - one symbol (end of sentence) ♦ Prepositions harder - three symbols (animals/objects and position) ♦ Prepositions hardest - full sentence, six symbols Each book comes with instructions included on the first page on how you can put this book together to get the best possible use out of it. Every book comes in color/colour or black and white option. The vocabulary is suitable for American or British classrooms. (Color, Colour etc.) These books are great to help students build up and work on their sentences. It encourages students to select the correct words(symbols) to match the picture they are looking at as well as being able to place them in the correct order to build an appropriate sentence. All images/vocabulary is used to Chinese New Year.
Thanksgiving Sentence Building Pack, Adapted Books
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Thanksgiving Sentence Building Pack, Adapted Books

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This pack includes 8 different sentence building / adapted books all related to Thanksgiving theme. All books come in b/w and col option but 3. This is great for a Spec Ed or Autism Classroom / working with Spec Ed or students with Autism. It's a great way to encourage students to pay close attention to deal, become more familiar with sentence structure and symbols. The books include; ♦ What? Object - one symbol ♦ How many objects? - two symbols ♦ What col - two symbols col only ♦ Easy prepositions - one symbol ♦ Harder prepositions - three symbols ♦ Full sentence prepositions - six symbols ♦ Col & Counting book - five symbols col only ♦ Turkey Tail Col - 2 levels in one PDF. col only Each book comes with instructions included on the first page on how you can put this book together to get the best possible use out of it. The vocabulary is suitable for American or British classrooms. (Color, Colour etc.) These books are great to help students build up and work on their sentences. It encourages students to select the correct words(symbols) to match the picture they are looking at as well as being able to place them in the correct order to build an appropriate sentence. All images/vocabulary is linked to the theme of the Thanksgiving.
Life Skills Adapted Work Binder
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Life Skills Adapted Work Binder

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This resource contains an adapted work folder that targets a range of different life skills for your students. ★ 20 activities included. ★ This resource also comes with 2 different levels for the grocery shopping/payment pages as well as girl/boy options for some pages. This resource comes in both spelling options of colour and color. It comes with different PDFs to suit a variety of different countries (mainly because of the coins used when purchasing food in the grocery store) This resource contains UK coins. The activities included in this folder are; ♦ Writing/Spelling name ♦ Doing the laundry Putting dirty washing and detergent into the washing machine, transferring clothes from washing machine onto the washing line, then off the washing line and into the basket ♦ Matching socks ♦ Putting items away - kitchen v garden ♦ Grocery shopping - 2 different levels Finding items on your shopping list, taking them off the shelves and into your trolley. Then paying for them at the end by choosing the correct coins from your purse. ♦ Recycling - recycle cardboard into the green bin and food into the white bin ♦ Building a face - boy and girl option ♦ Label the body ♦ Brush teeth Put pen on the teeth then rub off with toothbrush ♦ Wash face Put pen on face, then wipe off with baby wipes/wet cloth ♦ Wash hands Put pen on hands, then wipe off with baby wipes/wet cloth ♦ Dressing kids for weather - cold/hot option boy/girl option ♦ Set the table Put fork, knife, spoon and plate into correct places on the table If there are any life skills activities that you feel could be added to this folder, then please get in touch and I'll be happy to try and help you.
Spring Wh- Questions, Adapted Book
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Spring Wh- Questions, Adapted Book

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10 different pages are included in this sentence building / adapted book which encourages students to read the short sentence at the top of the page and find the appropriate and matching symbol to answer the comprehension question. Comes in col and b/w option for your preference. This is great for a Spec Ed or Autism Classroom / working with Spec Ed or students with Autism. It's a great way to encourage students to pay close attention to deal, become more familiar with sentence structure and symbols. The vocabulary is suitable for American or British classrooms. (Color, Colour etc.) All images/vocabulary is linked to the theme of Spring.
Winter Sentence Building Pack, Adapted Books
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Winter Sentence Building Pack, Adapted Books

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This pack includes 11 different sentence building / adapted books all related to Winter theme. All books come in b/w and col option but 2. The books come in different levels of sentence building to suit individual learners. This is great for a Spec Ed or Autism Classroom / working with Spec Ed or students with Autism. It's a great way to encourage students to pay close attention to deal, become more familiar with sentence structure and symbols. The books include; ♦ I can see col & number - col only ♦ Col snowmen col only ♦ How many? ♦ Snowman Feeling - Level 1 ♦ Penguin Feeling - Level 2 ♦ Prepositions - Easy ♦ Prepositions - Harder ♦ Prepositions - Full sentences ♦ What doing? Level 1 ♦ What doing? Level 2 ♦ What? Level 1 Each book comes with instructions included on the first page on how you can put this book together to get the best possible use out of it. The vocabulary is suitable for American or British classrooms. (Color, Colour etc.) These books are great to help students build up and work on their sentences. It encourages students to select the correct words(symbols) to match the picture they are looking at as well as being able to place them in the correct order to build an appropriate sentence. All images/vocabulary is linked to the theme of Winter.
Easter Sentence Building Pack, Adapted Books
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Easter Sentence Building Pack, Adapted Books

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This pack includes 12 different sentence building / adapted books all related to Easter theme. 11 books come in b/w and col option, 1 book comes only in col option. This is great for a Spec Ed or Autism Classroom / working with Spec Ed or students with Autism. The books include; ♦ What? object book - one symbol ♦ How Many? How many objects? - two symbols ♦ Easy Prepositions - two symbols ♦ Harder Prepositions - three symbols ♦ Full Sentence Prepositions - six symbols ♦ What can you see? objects - four symbols ♦ Counting and Describing Eggs - three symbols ♦ What Col eggs? Two tone - five symbols ♦ Rabbits in hedge counting - five symbols ♦ What shape is the rabbit? - two symbols ♦ Chick feeling - two symbols ♦ Chick feeling - three symbols Each book comes with instructions included on the first page on how you can put this book together to get the best possible use out of it. The vocabulary is suitable for American or British classrooms. (Color, Colour etc.) These books are great to help students build up and work on their sentences. It encourages students to select the correct words(symbols) to match the picture they are looking at as well as being able to place them in the correct order to build an appropriate sentence. All images/vocabulary is used to Easter.
Autism Resources: Color Sorting, Colour Sorting
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Autism Resources: Color Sorting, Colour Sorting

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This resource contains 6 different color/colour sorting worksheets that can be laminated and re-used as part of a binder pack or as worksheets for students to cut and stick. There are 6 cols included; red, green, yellow, purple, blue and orange. ★ The pages come in b/w and col option but the photos only come in col option. ★ A great way to see if students are able to recognise different col objects and sort them into the correct col. Appropriate for American and British/Canadian etc. classrooms - color/colour.
Animal Matching Poke Cards
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Animal Matching Poke Cards

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This resource contains 25 different animal matching poke cards. Students have to match the skin of the animal to the correct animal out of a choice of 3 below. Simply put an object/coffee stirrer etc. through the hole to select the answer. Students can self check their answers and also record their answers on a recording sheet. Instructions 1. Print out the cards onto card stock - 4 per page. 2. Laminate each of the cards. 3. Hole punch each of the cards on the + sign with a single-hole puncher. 4. Turn each card over and use a marker to circle the hole that corresponds with the correct answer. 5. (Optional) Hole punch each card in the upper left hand corner so that you can keep them altogether with a keyring. 6. Find coffee stirrers or cupcake picks for your students to use as ‘safe pokers’ An answer key is included for you to be able to check students answers quickly.
Dinosaurs Word Search Activity
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Dinosaurs Word Search Activity

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This Dinosaurs themed word search pack contains 2 different levels of word search worksheets, blank word search worksheets for students to make their own Dinosaur word searches and also 1 vocabulary poster that includes all the vocabulary used through all the word searches. This resource includes; ♦ Level 1 word search worksheets x 8 (8 words) ♦ Level 2 word search worksheets x 4 (16 words) ♦ Level 1 and Level 2 blank word search worksheets for students to make their own Dinosaur theme word searches ♦ Vocabulary poster with all the words from the word searches ♦ Answer keys These worksheets come in b/w for ink friendly printing and are appropriate for all spelling types - UK/US etc. The worksheets require no prep, simply print and hand out. These are great time fillers, literacy centres, or even to be left on sub days. They provide a different way for students to pay close attention to detail and encourages the recognition of letters and vocabulary.
Pirates Word Search Activity
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Pirates Word Search Activity

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This Pirate themed word search pack contains 2 different levels of word search worksheets, blank word search worksheets for students to make their own Pirate word searches and also 3 vocabulary posters that include all the vocabulary used through all the word searches. This resource includes; ♦ Level 1 word search worksheets x 10 (8 words) ♦ Level 2 word search worksheets x 5 (16 words) ♦ Level 1 and Level 2 blank word search worksheets for students to make their own Pirate theme word searches ♦ Vocabulary posters with all the words from the word searches ♦ Answer keys These worksheets come in b/w for ink friendly printing and are appropriate for all spelling types - UK/US etc. The worksheets require no prep, simply print and hand out. These are great time fillers, literacy centres, or even to be left on sub days. They provide a different way for students to pay close attention to detail and encourages the recognition of letters and vocabulary.
Autumn No Prep Writing Prompt Worksheets
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Autumn No Prep Writing Prompt Worksheets

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This resource contains 14 different, no prep writing prompt worksheets linked to the theme of Autumn / Fall. These worksheets are great time fillers and a great way to encourage students to use their imagination and work on their creative writing skills. All the worksheets comes in b/w option and are no prep - simply print and go. The worksheets contain an image with the start of a sentence at the top of the worksheet with writing lines underneath for students to finish the sentence.
Food Yes / No Questions
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Food Yes / No Questions

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This resource contains 148 different task cards giving students the choice of two answers - yes or no - to the question at the top. Each task card contains 1 question, 1 image and 2 answers. The task cards are all in the theme of Food. These task cards come in col and b/w option for your preference. They are a great way to encourage students to pay attention to detail, the image that they are looking at and to answer appropriately. I recommend cutting out each card individually and laminating so that they will be stronger and longer lasting. Students can complete with a dry wipe pen or a peg so that they can be used again.
Rooms of the House Category Sorting Cards
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Rooms of the House Category Sorting Cards

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This resource contains 8 different rooms for students to match the appropriate furniture/object images into. The rooms included are: ♦ Bedroom ♦ Bathroom ♦ Dining Room ♦ Garage ♦ Kitchen ♦ Living Room ♦ Office ♦ Yard If you have any recommendations for any additional sorting pages you would like added please don't hesitate to contact me. There are 6 items to match for each card. I recommend laminating each of the individual parts so that they will be stronger, longer lasting and re-usable. This resource is a great way for students to work on their sorting and categorising / categorizing skills. They are used with an Autism Classroom on a regular basis which have really helped to develop the children's understanding. As well as suiting an Autism Classroom, this resource would also benefit Spec Ed Classrooms and even Mainstream Classrooms.
Easter Yes / No Questions
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Easter Yes / No Questions

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This resource contains 46 different task cards giving students the choice of two answers - yes or no - to the question at the top. Each task card contains 1 question, 1 image and 2 answers. The task cards are all in the theme of Easter. These task cards come in col and b/w option for your preference. They are a great way to encourage students to pay attention to detail, the image that they are looking at and to answer appropriately. I recommend cutting out each card individually and laminating so that they will be stronger and longer lasting. Students can complete with a dry wipe pen or a peg so that they can be used again.
Animals Word Search Activity
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Animals Word Search Activity

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This Animals themed word search pack contains 2 different levels of word search worksheets, blank word search worksheets for students to make their own Animal word searches and also 4 vocabulary posters that include all the vocabulary used through all the word searches. This resource includes; ♦ Level 1 word search worksheets x 21 (8 words) ♦ Level 2 word search worksheets x 11 (16 words) ♦ Level 1 and Level 2 blank word search worksheets for students to make their own Animal theme word searches ♦ Vocabulary posters with all the words from the word searches ♦ Answer keys Word search puzzle themes (pages) include; • mammals • amphibians • reptiles • insects • jungle animals • wetland animals • pets • desert animals • ocean animals • arctic animals • rainforest animals • farm animals Vocabulary included; aardvark, adder, alligator, amphibians, animal, ant, anteater, arctic , armadillo, baboon, bear, bearded dragon, beaver, bee, beetle, birds, boa, bugs, bullfrog, camel, cat, caterpillar, chameleon, cheetah, chicken, clownfish, cobra, cockroach, common, cow, coyote, crayfish, crocodile, desert, dog, dolphin, duck, eagle, eel, elephant, elk, farm, fish, fly, fox, frog, gecko, giant, giraffe, goat, gopher, gorilla, grizzly bear, groundhog, hamster, hare, hedgehog, heron, hippo, horse, humming bird, iguana, insects, jaguar, jellyfish, jungle, kangaroo, koala, larvae, leopard, lice, lion, lizard, lobster, mammals, manatee, mealworm, monkey, moose, moth, mouse, newt, ocean, octopus, orangutan, otter, panda, parrot, pets, pig, platypus, polar, pufferfish, puffin, python, rabbit, rainforest, rattle, reindeer, reptile, rooster, salamander, scorpion, seahorse, shark, sheep, skunk, sloth, slug, snake, snapping, spider, spiders, starfish, stingray, quail, tarantula, tiger, toad, tortoise, toucan, tree, turtle, types, viper, vulture, walrus, wasp, wetland, whale, wolf, zebra These worksheets come in b/w for ink friendly printing and are appropriate for all spelling types - UK/US etc. The worksheets require no prep, simply print and hand out. These are great time fillers, literacy centres, or even to be left on sub days. They provide a different way for students to pay close attention to detail and encourages the recognition of letters and vocabulary.