I have been a special needs practitioner/teacher for ten years--it is my passion! I have taught students who range from profound to moderate to severe learning difficulties. I also have a lot of experience teaching students who are on the Autism Spectrum. Most of the content that I teach focuses in the area of functional life skills, social skills and behavior modifications.
I have been a special needs practitioner/teacher for ten years--it is my passion! I have taught students who range from profound to moderate to severe learning difficulties. I also have a lot of experience teaching students who are on the Autism Spectrum. Most of the content that I teach focuses in the area of functional life skills, social skills and behavior modifications.
An adapted made up story with Mr Bean and his friend Mo Salah - 8 differentiated activities included
Instil a love of reading, model fluency, and introduce new genres of stories to your students with adapted made up stories.
These are 1x PPP on the story Mr Bean goes to Africa (made up story).
8 extension activities are included in this pack:
Activity 1: Answer the Questions in full sentences MLD level
Activity 2: Sequencing Story MLD, SLD Level
Activity 3: Sorting out MLD, SMLD Level
Activity 4: Letters and Sounds MLD, SLD Level
Activity 5: Answer the Questions (writing gaps) MLD level
Activity 6: Comprehension multiple choice MLD, SLD Level
Activity 7: Connect the words with Pictures SLD Level
Activity 8: Fill the gaps MLD, SLD Level
I see … animal habitats activity
Forming sentences is very important for SEN learners.
This activity uses real-life pictures for easy recognition of animal habitats and sight words as sentence starters. This is also an activity to practice identifying the attributes of what, the number, and the color of a group of animals . There are 10 groups of animals.
The student will match the corresponding picture to answer the questions - What? How Many? What Color? There are 2 ways to use this file:
Print the pages and use the pages as a “cut and paste” activity. The students will use glue to paste the correct answers where necessary.
Print all the pages on photo paper and laminate them. Cut out the pages containing the colors, numbers, and pictures. There are 3 pages that serve as boards for the types of answers (“what?”, “how many?”, “what color?”). Use hook and loop dots on the backside of each card and in the middle of each blank square on the boards as well as on each square containing the questions. Thus the activity can be reused as many times as needed.
Are you struggling to find age appropriate Teen SEN stories?
Not anymore!
‘‘Matt gets wise’’ is a book for young people with special educational needs (14-19) dealing with personal male hygiene.
As a teacher of children with autism, personal hygiene tasks are a high priority on the school daily timetable. Dedicating time to personal hygiene books and activities as part of a routine, every day, is a good method of ensuring the children have regular time to learn these important skills. This book and its activities are a great resource to teach the importance of:
washing hands
getting dressed with clean clothes
brushing teeth
washing face
using the shower
washing under arms and using deodorant
The pack includes:
1 PPP on the story Matt gets wise, with widgit symbols (SLD)
4 extension activities are included in this pack:
1:Writing task: Write up Andy’s advice to Matt - MLD level
2: Match the right statement from Andy’s advice with the right picture - SLD level
3: Connect the words with Pictures - SLD Level
4: Sequencing Story MLD, SLD Level
5: Fill the gaps MLD, SLD Level
This festive Christmas Story PowerPoint for children is perfect for using during the build-up towards the Christmas holidays and will help to teach students about the story behind this exciting time of year.
The Budle includes:
a simplified version of the Christmas story in widgit
a sentence building activity
a comprehension activity widgit symbolised
a sequencing worksheet
Enjoy!
Explore animals that live in the Ocean using three different information stories simplified and moderate in widgit programme for SLD and MLD learners.
All three stories also include colourful illustartions and facts about each ocean animal and ocean habitat.
The pack includes:
A) 3 ppt stories about Ocean life :
Ocean view
The Ocean habitat in widgit
Under the Sea counting story with facts in widgit
B) 2 Comprehension activities:
Under the sea Comprehension Activity
Ocean view Comprehenson Activity
c) Visuals to stick on the story: Ocean view
D) 3 Maths Activities:
Count the Ocean Animals up to 10
The Ocean Habitat Addition Activity
What Comes Next with Ocean Animals - Complete Pattern Activity
This is a Colourful Semantics activity set Level 2 (Subject-Verb)
Use this activity to help your children construct simple sentences. Colourful Semantics is a great way to support children who struggle to write independently. The colour scheme relates to the types of words in a sentence. For example, ‘who’ words are orange (9 in total), ‘what doing’ words (verbs) (20 in total) are yellow .
This helps children to learn about word types and word order and sentence structure. Using Colourful Semantics, your children will become more confident and independent in their sentence construction.
Colourful Semantics are a great way to help children construct and create complete sentences. It helps children to identify the correct order of a sentence This is a good activity to help children learn the importance of sentence structure and order.
Learn to build sentences and develop your commenting skills.
There is an orange and yellow coloured strip under each picture. You can print, laminate and use velcro onto them. Use hard velcro onto the coloured strip under the picture and soft velcro behind each coloured symbol.
Please see the sentences below:
The girl is jumping.
The dog is sleeping.
Te man is riding.
The girl is drinking.
The man is sleeping.
The girl is riding.
The lady is riding.
The girl is playing.
The boy is riding.
The dog is swimming.
The man is drinking.
The lady is drinking.
The boy is drinking.
The cat is playing.
The girl is climbing.
The man is giving.
The dog is eating.
The lady is walking.
The cat is eating.
The girl is walking.
The boy is painting.
The lady is giving.
The boy is singing.
The girl is swimming.
The monkey is drinking.
the girl is writing.
The lady is dancing.
The bear is eating.
The baby is playing.
The man is dancing.
The man is cooking.
The girl is reading.
The baby is crying.
The lady is running.
‘‘Emma and Laura’’ is a story for young people with special educational needs (14-19) dealing with personal hygiene.
As a teacher of children with autism, personal hygiene tasks are a high priority on the school daily timetable. Dedicating time to personal hygiene books and activities as part of a routine, every day, is a good method of ensuring the children have regular time to learn these important skills. This book and its activities are a great resource to teach the importance of:
washing hands
getting dressed with clean clothes
brushing teeth
washing face
using the shower
washing under arms and using deodorant
The pack includes:
1 PPP on the story ‘‘Emma and Laura’’, on widgit symbols (SLD)
1 Story mat
9 extension activities are included in this pack:
1:Writing task: Write up Emma’s mum advice - MLD level
2: Answer the questions for MLD Learners
3: Comprehension activity for SLD Learners
4: Match the words with Pictures - SLD Level
5:Sequencing Story SLD Level only pictures.
6: Sequencing Story MLD Level
7: Sequencing Story SLD Level pictures and words
8: Indicate the right letter to the word MLD, SLD
9: Match the picture with the symbol - SLD Level
Looking for new ideas working on SLD Learners communication skills?
My Weekend News session is a great resource, allowing your children to communicate and build sentences about their weekend news using symbols.
The resource includes:
-a ppt that you can use in circle time. Add your team’s picture and make it more interactive for your learners.
7 questions all widgit symbolised
a great selection of answers for your students to choose from, all widgit symbolised.
Are you looking for stories to practice reading comprehension skills?
Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt , provide a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills.
This pack of resources contains:
New Trainers:
ppt story widgit symbolised
ppt story for MLD learners (no symbols)
Comprehension activity widgit symbolised (8 questions in total)
Comprehension activity - (no symbols)
Colourful semantics activity
By the stream:
ppt story widgit symbolised
ppt story for MLD learners (no symbols)
Comprehension activity - no symbols
Comprehension activity widgit symbolised
Building‘’I see …’’sentences using the Colourful semantics concept & CVC words– for SLD and MLD learners (25 in total)
Building ‘’I see…’’ sentences literacy programme.
This resource uses the concept of colourful semantics, paired with the Living Language stages of language development. The words used in the pack are simple CVC words and colours and aim to help children put words in the correct order in a sentence. The child is given a cue picture and a coloured sentence strip with matching coloured symbols.
combining an adjective-describe (purple) and noun - object (green).
Give the child the cue cards one at a time and encourage them to complete the sentence strip, choosing from the symbols available to them.
This activity uses real-life pictures for easy recognition of common objects and sight words as sentence starters. (25 building ‘‘I see…’’ sentences)
This is also an activity to practice identifying the attributes of what and the color of a group of CVC words. There are 25 groups of CVC words and colour words. The student will match the corresponding picture to answer the questions - What? What colour?
There are 2 ways to use this file:
Print the pages and use the pages as a “cut and paste” activity. The students will use glue to paste the correct answers where necessary.
Print all the pages on photo paper and laminate them. Cut out the pages containing the colors, numbers, and pictures. There are 8 pages- (3 green and 5 purple) that serve as boards for the types of answers (“what color?”, “what?”). Use soft velcro on the backside of each CVC and colour card and hard velcro in the middle of each indivindual template and on each square containing the questions. Thus the activity can be reused as many times as needed.
‘‘Barry the Fish with fingers’’ is a great book to work on building up vocabulary and answering questions.
Fish come from all over the ocean to see Puffy the Puffer Fish’s amazing bubbles. Big bubbles, small bubbles, square bubbles . . . they’ve never seen anything quite so amazing, that is until Barry arrives on the scene. Barry is a fish with fingers and he’s going to put them to great use. The fish are amazed. Life under the sea will never be the same again . .
The pack includes:
Adapted PowerPoint of the story widgit symbolised. Includes symbols / text and sound effects to tell the story.
A Story Mat with symbols
6 extension activities are included in this pack for Moderate Learning Difficulties (MLD) or Severe Learning Difficulties (SLD) for differentiation.:
Two ppt: Comprehension Questions for SLD and MLD learners (8 questions each activity)
Two Colourful Semantics activities: Barry the Fish with fingers- C. Semantics Level 3 for SLD & Barry the Fish with fingers- Make a sentence for MLD learners
Two Maths activities: Barry the Fish with fingers- - counting activity- Digital activity SLD Level& Barry the Fish with fingers- What comes next activity SLD Level
Art activity: Decorate Barry and Puffy and make stick puppets
´´Peace at last´´ is a great book to work on building up vocabulary, sequencing, and answering questions.
The hour was late and Mr Bear was tired. But he could not sleep – however he tried and wherever he tried. SNORE, SNORE went Mrs Bear. TICK-TOCK, TICK-TOCK went the clock. Would he never get to sleep?
The pack includes:
Adapted PowerPoint of a favourite story widgit symbolised. Includes symbols / text and sound effects to tell the story.
A Story Mat with symbols
13 extension activities are included in this pack for Moderate Learning Difficulties (MLD) or Severe Learning Difficulties (SLD) for differentiation.:
Three ppt: Comprehension Questions for SLD and MLD learners (8 questions each activity)
Two documents: True or False activities for SLD and MLD learners
Find the initial letter activity SLD Level
Stick the right word under the picture SLD Level
Complete the word activity in MLD Level
I can hear… activity SLD Level
I can see … activity SLD Level
Peace at Last story sequencing activity SLD and MLD Level
Peace at Last counting activity- Digital activity SLD Level
Peace at Last What comes next activity SLD Level
This is the Colourful Semantics activity Level 6 pack (who, doing what, what, where, when)
Colourful Semantics Level 6 is an approach can be used with children with a range of Speech, Language and Communication Needs. Developing the use of nouns, verbs, prepositions and adjectives.
Use this activity to help your children construct simple sentences. Colourful Semantics is a great way to support children who struggle to construct a sentence independently. The colour scheme relates to the types of words in a sentence. For example, ‘who’ words are orange (10 in total), ‘doing what’ words (verbs) (20 in total) are yellow, ‘what’ words (53 in total) are green, ‘where’ words (20 in total) are blue and ‘when’ words (7 in total) are brown.
This helps children to learn about word types and word order and sentence structure. Using Colourful Semantics, your children will become more confident and independent in their sentence construction and supports communication in general.
Colourful Semantics are a great way to help children construct and create complete sentences. It helps children to identify the correct order of a sentence This is a great activity to help children learn the importance of sentence structure and order and support communication by answering simple ‘Wh’ questions.
There is an orange yellow, green, blue and purple coloured sentence strip under each picture. You can print, laminate and use velcro onto them. Use hard velcro onto the coloured sentence strip and soft velcro behind each coloured symbol.
Can be transferred to written sentences and written language comprehension
Can be carried out individually or in small groups.
Total Pages: 67 pages
Use this activity to help your children construct simple sentences.
Colourful Semantics Level 4 is an approach can be used with children with a range of Speech, Language and Communication Needs. Developing the use of nouns, verbs, prepositions and adjectives.
‘‘Peppa Pig’’ Colourful Semantics Level 4 Vol. 2 pack is a fun way to support children who struggle to construct a sentence independently. The colour scheme relates to the types of words in a sentence. For example, ‘who’ words are orange (10 in total), ‘what doing’ words (verbs) (27 in total) are yellow, ‘what’ words (37 in total) are green and ‘place’ words (23 in total) are blue.
This helps children to learn about word types and word order and sentence structure. Using Colourful Semantics, your children will become more confident and independent in their sentence construction.
Colourful Semantics are a great way to help children construct and create complete sentences. It helps children to identify the correct order of a sentence This is a great activity to help children learn the importance of sentence structure and order and support communication by answering simple ‘Wh’ questions.
There is an orange, yellow, green and blue coloured sentence strip under each picture. You can print, laminate and use velcro onto them. Use hard velcro onto the coloured sentence strip and soft velcro behind each coloured symbol.
Can be transferred to written sentences and written language comprehension.
Can be carried out individually or in small groups.
Make maths fun with these Peppa Pig themed cards additions and subtractions! (40 slides)
Each addition and subtraction was designed to support students’ decoding skills using a number line.
Two Fun power points!! Each slide features a different challenge featuring Peppa Pig themed cards with a lovely illustration.
1st ppt: Each slide includes the Peppa Pig themed cards additions up to 20 with a number line to support the learners thinking.
2nd ppt: Each slide includes, the Peppa Pig themed cards subtractions from 20 with a number line to support the learners thinking.
Summer is such a fun time for outside activities. The warm summer sun means time for a splashing good time. Picnics with friends and family, sand castles at the beach. Fireworks in the night sky, and ice pop treats in Sweet Summer.
Moving into summer, Walters and Nez continue to educate young readers about what happens in the summertime–specifically the fun! Picnics and beach days are colorfully illustrated to express the joys of summer.
The file includes:
1x PPP on the story Sweet summer widgit symbolised
1 word mat in widgit
1 Building sentences activity- sweet summer in widgit
1 Sweet summer counting activity- activeboard activity
1 Find the initial sound activity
Enjoy!
Use this activity to help your children construct simple sentences.
‘‘Disney Princesses and Friends’’ Colourful Semantics pack Level 2&3 is a fun way to support children who struggle to construct a sentence independently. The colour scheme relates to the types of words in a sentence. For example, ‘who’ words are orange (22 in total), ‘what doing’ words (verbs) (45 in total) are yellow, ‘what’ words (70 in total) are green.
This helps children to learn about word types and word order and sentence structure. Using Colourful Semantics, your children will become more confident and independent in their sentence construction.
Colourful Semantics are a great way to help children construct and create complete sentences. It helps children to identify the correct order of a sentence This is a great activity to help children learn the importance of sentence structure and order and support communication by answering simple ‘Wh’ questions.
There is an orange, yellow and green coloured sentence strip under each picture. You can print, laminate and use velcro onto them. Use hard velcro onto the coloured sentence strip and soft velcro behind each coloured symbol.
Can be transferred to written sentences and written language comprehension
Can be carried out individually or in small groups.
Enjoy a four seasons tree template for year round drawing.
This four seasons tree template lets students draw the stages of a tree throughout the seasonal changes.
The template also includes space to add the right symbol so students can include a description of the tree as they create it.
The resource includes:
step by step directions on how to make the trees
widgit symbols to add them on the creations
Looking for new ideas working on SLD Learners communication skills?
My Half Term (October) News session is a great resource, allowing your children to communicate and build sentences about their weekend news using symbols.
The resource includes:
-a ppt that you can use in circle time. Add your team’s picture and make it more interactive for your learners.
8 questions all widgit symbolised
a great selection of answers for your students to choose from, all widgit symbolised.
This is a great no cook visual recipe, to teach essential life skills and cooking skills. The visual widgit symbolised recipe can be used in a autism class, at home with your children, in a school education program or in a life skills program.
1 power point
1 Recipe-Widgit symbolised
1 activity -Find the initial letter
2 extra comprehension activities