Adapted Activities

This is a set of worksheets from my special education classroom that uses a functional curriculum to teach academics and life skills. Sometimes, the programs we are given are very simple or they've been in place so long that pieces are missing. I came up with these worksheets to help my students have more practice with their words than just what the reading program was giving them. This comes from a functional reading program (that I won't name). This set contains the first 50 words of Level 1 o

My middle school students have mild to moderate intellectual disabilities and are being taught using a functional curriculum. We wanted to learn about Georgia since that is an 8th grade standard. However, the materials I could find were over our ability levels. I created an adapted cut and paste activity to help my students learn three of the major rivers in Georgia. One is a simple cut and paste and the other is the same sheet with color coded visual prompting.

This freebie comes from a set of worksheets from my special education classroom that uses a functional curriculum to teach academics and life skills. Sometimes, the programs we are given are very simple or they've been in place so long that pieces are missing. I came up with these worksheets to help my students have more practice with their words than just what the reading program was giving them. This comes from a functional reading program (that I won't name). This freebie contains the first 1

This activity was created to teach a Functional Curriculum class about the idea of Author's Purpose. We only focused on Entertain and Inform for this activity. The students look at the picture of a text or type of book and then cut and paste it under the appropriate purpose. Picture prompts were provided to help the students know what the purpose meant.

I made this for my K-2 MOID class after we learned about light and sound. As always lots of picture clues and my students either point to the answer or circle the answer.

This is a goal tracker that I use in the classroom but I have modified for digital/distance learning to help us keep up with not only a student's IEP goals but with their participation in distance learning.

I created this activity for my Special Education classroom when my students wanted to tell me all about EVERYTHING they ate for Thanksgiving! With this activity they can cut out the pictures of what they ate to glue onto their plate. Then they can use the sentence frames to write about it. I often glue both pieces to a piece of construction paper and make a bulletin board out of it.

This activity uses conversation hearts to teach the concept of ratios to students on an adapted Functional Curriculum. The students first sort and count their hearts by color. Then they use the count sheet to create ratios for four color combinations.

This is a goal tracker that I use in the classroom but I have modified for digital/distance learning to help us keep up with not only a student's IEP goals but with their participation in distance learning. This version is editable. I usually type the students' IEP goals into the boxes instead of handwriting them.

I couldn't find what I needed for my Functional Curriculum room to celebrate Pi Day, so as usual...I adapted! Hopefully you will find this useful for your students too!

My middle school students have mild to moderate intellectual disabilities and are being taught using a functional curriculum. I made these cards for a student's IEP goal of matching a set of objects to the number. Laminate the cards and cut them apart for durability.

I created this product to help my SPED class (K-2) with the concept of addition. They cut out some red apples and some green apples. Then we glue their apples into the box and they write the addition sentence that goes with it.

My middle school students have mild to moderate intellectual disabilities and are being taught using a functional curriculum. We wanted to learn about Georgia since that is an 8th grade standard. However, the materials I could find were over our ability levels. I created an adapted cut and paste activity to help my students learn some of the most famous symbols of Georgia.

This is a way to teach my functional curriculum students about word connotations. They have to cut out the word/picture and decide if it's something that makes them feel good or not good.

I use this skill tracker to keep track of where my students are for telling time, counting money, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. I simply write their name in pencil and as they move along I move their name. When I'm planning lessons it's a great tool to know where everyone is at as well as being very helpful when it comes to progress reports and IEP meetings.

In trying to find a way to assess my special education students virtually, I came up with this PowerPoint that I share via Zoom and then I use the checklist to keep track of the words they know.

In trying to find a way to assess my special education students virtually, I came up with this PowerPoint that I share via Zoom and then I use the checklist to keep track of the words they know.

In trying to find a way to assess my special education students virtually, I came up with this PowerPoint that I share via Zoom and then I use the checklist to keep track of the words they know.