Benjamin Thomas

Touch money provides a structured and a highly visual learning environment for counting money. Through this unit, students are afforded the opportunity to practice counting money using touchpoints. Prior to implementing this unit, students should be able to skip count by 5. In this unit, you will be provided with large sample coins (make copies of the large print coins to give to the students, then allow the students to use buttons to place on the location of the touchpoints or a string to

Social stories are a great resource for teaching social stories. The most effective means for teaching a social story is to read the social story with your student(s) accompanied with a photo library to illustrate the story with pictures, video model the social story, and then challenge the student to role play situations specific to the social story. This social story presents situations which require individuals to ask for help. The story is composed of pages with 1 or 2 sentences and pictu

Students with autism often struggle to communicate needs, wants, and emotions. Particularly, however, students with ASD often struggle to communicate pains and fevers. Therefore, to assist students with ASD to communicate sicknesses while at school and to reduce tantruming, this social story will help students with ASD to identify sicknesses and to practice necessary procedures for communicating those sicknesses to the teacher.

This document has 3 social stories pertaining to a student's emotions. The stories are designed to share the stories of others and how the students can learn from another person's experiences.

Touch money provides a structured and a highly visual learning environment for counting money. Through this unit, students are afforded the opportunity to practice counting money using touchpoints. Prior to implementing this unit, students should be able to skip count by 5. In this unit, you will be provided with large sample coins (make copies of the large print coins to give to the students, then allow the students to use buttons to place on the location of the touchpoints or a string to

This webquest is intended to provide opportunities to practice spending and making change using money. In the webquest, the student will practice shopping on an online store intended only for learning. The online store is designed in a way so that students cannot make actual purchases. It is recommended that the webquest is used as a form of assessment to give students the opportunity to demonstrate applied knowledge and application of the skills and vocabulary included in the webquest. Pr

These activities are intended to provide reading comprehension practice, which are designed to assist struggling readers. The activities include short 3-5 sentence story passages, which can also be incorporated into social story instruction, involving emotions, play, and behaviors. Each story has activities incorporated into them. The picture pages are provided to provide practice to students for story retell and sequencing (Sequencing sheet are the sheets with the blank squares. Students ca

This document has 3 social stories pertaining to a student's emotions. The stories are designed to share the stories of others and how the students can learn from another person's experiences.

Students will demonstrate their knowledge of coins through this mini booklet by recognizing each coin and value.

This grid provides structure and guidance for students who struggle to complete two digit addition with carry over. What I have experienced in my teaching is that many students will often get lost in the procedures of mathematical equations. Therefore, this grid offers a teaching strategy to help students organize their thought processes as they progress through these equations.

Provided is more than 60 pages of reading comprehension activities and worksheets. The unit is designed to help students better understand who, when, and where questions and incorporates pictures and color coded text as accommodations for struggling readers. I use this product to help my students with autism better read and comprehend what they are reading. In addition, the activities can be designed to supplement social stories, as well. The pictures which are included can help students ret