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Learning how to write a sentence can feel overwhelming for many early learners—especially students with autism, special education needs, or ESL / English language learners. This sentence writing practice resource breaks the process down into clear, visual, and manageable steps so students can experience success right away. These sentence writing practice worksheets are designed for kindergarten and early elementary students who need explicit instruction, repetition, and visual support. Inste

Your planning for Extended School Year (ESY) or summer school is done! This bundle includes 5 weeks of ESY summer units that work on math, ELA, and writing skills. It's a great addition to your summer school curriculum or to make extended school year packets, too. Sensory fun activities are included to make extended school year an enjoyable experience for you and your students in special ed. Special bonus for bundle owners only!- Bundle owners receive an editable communication and data sheet f

Do you need help teaching the writing process to your learners who access the general ed curriculum and those who access the adapted curriculum simultaneously? Then, this special education writing curriculum is for you! Let's take the writing process and break it down so that all students can succeed. Each unit includes two levels- level 1 includes cut/paste activities for students who struggle with writing. Level 2 is for students who can write. Each unit also includes mini-lessons! Pick and

Do your students struggle with story elements, such as characters and setting? This set of visuals is perfect for students with autism or in special education who have difficulty understanding questions like “who are the characters?” and “what is the setting?” Characters and settings are now easy to teach with these visuals! I like to keep these visuals on a keyring so that they are easily accessible! What makes this resource so different?You can use these visuals with almost any picture book!

These reading comprehension with picture choices, stories, and worksheets are perfect for students in kindergarten or with autism because students can circle pictures! Sequencing stories with pictures and answering WH questions using picture choices are helpful reading strategies for students in special education and primary grades. Your reading comprehension instruction and assessment are planned for each month of the school year! Practice answering wh-questions, sequencing story events, and

Learning how to write a sentence has never been easier! These sentence writing practice worksheets are perfect for students in kindergarten or special education. Writing complete sentences is always a struggle for students. Where do you even start!? These sentence writing practice worksheets will have your students writing simple sentences in no time! This product is visually based. Students look at a picture and write a sentence about it. Three levels are included! Level 1- tracing Level

These digital task cards are perfect for distance learning, especially students in special education or students with autism. These 24 digital task cards on the BOOM Learning website include practice identifying the character and setting from 1-2 sentences. *The task cards include audio, therefore the student does not have to read the short story by them self.These task cards are a perfect way to utilize computers, laptops, iPads, or other electronic devices. They can even be used on an inte

Your planning for ESY summer school is over! This has everything you need to meet the needs of your special education students for ESY and summer school, including digital materials. Add this to your summer school curriculum! This unit is designed to last you at least one week of ESY summer school, although many users have reported that there is more than enough material to last more than a week. Printable materials, 16 interactive PDFs, and 10 Boom Card decks are included. The interactive

Learn about animals for special education and students with autism. This resource includes 4 levels of worksheets to learn about 10 different animals. A vocabulary anchor chart and vocabulary practice pages are included as well to front load some vocabulary associated with the classification of animals- birds, reptiles, amphibians, mammals, fish, and insects This resource now includes Digital Task Cards based on the Boom Learning Platform! - 30 digital task cards. Includes 10 animals- 3 quest

This weekend writing activity includes a writing prompt for after the weekend AND for after Summer, Thanksgiving, Winter, Snow days, Spring, and Memorial Day Weekend breaks. It comes with 4 levels to reach all your learners with autism or other special needs. Each page gives you the opportunity to indicate the level of prompting needed, which is helpful when monitoring students' progress. This is a fantastic Monday activity that can be prepped for the year! Color and b/w versions included! Th

This is an *editable* personal information interactive book. This book is perfect for your students to do for morning work. It is important that our students know basic information about themselves for social and safety reasons. This file contains 2 levels! Level 1: Matching Level 2: Non-matching Please see the video preview! **Make sure you download and open the file in the latest version of adobe to take advantage of the editable feature. Contact TpT or email me at totallyautism9@gmail.c

These Black History Month reading comprehension activities are designed specifically for special education, kindergarten, and first grade students who need simple, accessible language arts activities with strong visual support. It works great as part of your 28 Days of Black History Unit. The passages introduce students to famous African Americans clearly and meaningfully, making Black History Month both engaging and age-appropriate. This resource includes three differentiated levels of

This Map Skills unit is jam-packed with differentiated materials to teach complex concepts such as identifying parts of a map, finding locations on a map, identifying your state and country, significant U.S. landforms, identifying the Great Lakes, labeling the continents and oceans, the equator, and climate. This unit now includes digital task cards from Boom Learning! Click here to see a preview.20 digital task cards included: "What are Maps and Globes?" adapted book, label parts of a map (ti

Teaching social studies to students in special education shouldn't be difficult! This bundle can easily be used as your social studies curriculum for special ed. Each unit is adapted to meet the individual needs of students in special education or with autism. Check out these differentiated worksheets and activities! Each unit includes visual vocabulary cards, adapted books, task cards, differentiated worksheets, and a suggested unit guide. Activities are meant to be varied and hands-on. The

Teaching theme to students with autism and special needs can be tricky! This resource was created to include simple language and visuals to identify theme of a story. The following common themes are taught: compassion, cooperation, courage, friendship, honesty, loyalty, perseverance, acceptance, family, and growing up. This unit includes 3 components: concept/vocabulary instruction and practice pagestwo mentor texts with two levels of questions5 reading passages with two levels of questions (2

Looking for an adapted curriculum that makes special education science accessible, visual, and easy to plan? These adapted science units cover more than  20 common science topics and are explicitly designed for students with special needs, including non-writers. This adapted science curriculum for special education breaks down big science concepts into simple, student-friendly lessons using visuals and hands-on activities. Planning science doesn’t have to feel overwhelming anymore (because l

Teach students with autism and special needs how to engage in the writing process- brainstorm, plan, draft, brainstorm, and celebrate! This could be your special education writing curriculum! Students with autism who have difficulty writing CAN participate in the writing process with this unit. Do you struggle to reach your learners who access the general ed curriculum and those who access the adapted curriculum simultaneously? Then this unit is for you! This unit is intended to reach all your

Beginning to teach students with autism to write sentences can be difficult. I hope this Writing Sentences product will help you! This product is visually based. Students look at a picture and write a sentence about it. Three levels are included! Use the TpT Digital Tool with this resource! This is a Fall edition of my original resource: Writing Sentences for students with autismHere is exactly what is included: Parts of a sentence anchor chart Sentence/Not a Sentence Sort w/ color and b/w

These special education writing activities are the perfect prompts for students who cannot write. I like using these for morning work! Students can either trace, copy, or cut/paste their story. 6 levels are included. Each theme will have at least 10 different prompts. This is great for students with IEP goals on tracing, copying sentences, filling in the blank of a sentence, and writing their own sentences. This can be used as a para run center, independent work, or writing instruction! E

This opinion writing unit is meant to reach your learners on the adapted and general curricula simultaneously! Students will learn to fill out an opinion writing planning sheet, generate or choose an opinion, and tell the difference between fact and opinion. Students in special education who are non-writers can benefit from this resource. This unit is intended to reach all your special learners with various levels of differentiation. Watch the full video preview! I have always had a hard time