Core Connect AAC
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West Bloomfield, Michigan, United States
About the store
As a dedicated educator with extensive experience in teaching young children, I am here to help teachers meet a wide range of student needs by creating resources that are highly engaging yet easy to prepare. I have hundreds of pre-academic and early academic materials available for you to select from, and most come in both a print and digital (drag and drop) format. Colorful, interactive and attention grabbing, these resources are sure to be a favorite with your students whether you elect to use them for circle time, individual instruction, online learning or homeschooling.
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I Spy Ocean Animals | Interactive Slide Show | PreK | AAC Core Vocabulary
INTERACTIVE SLIDE SHOW | COMPUTER OR SMARTBOARD | FUN ANIMATION AND SOUND EFFECTS. Help your students learn the names of ocean animals and practice the core words, I, IN and ME, using this slide show on your smartboard to engage them during AAC group or circle time. Great also to use in the preschool and early intervention classrooms. Students click or tap the screen to see various sea creatures animate according to the words read aloud on the screen. Examples: I spy a seahorse racing by me,
PreK - 2nd
Vocabulary
Core Word of the Week Lesson Plan Template | Editable | Special Ed Classroom
UPDATED TO INCLUDE THREE TEMPLATE STYLES. Use these lesson plan templates to organize your circle time or group time activities for the week. Recommended for preschool through grade 5. **************************************************************************************** IncludedYou will receive a 17-page editable PowerPoint Presentation file in a zip folder. *************************************************************************************** Customer Tips:How to get TPT credit to use o
PreK - 5th
Vocabulary
Smart Turkeys Stop and Go | Interactive Slide Show | AAC Core Vocabulary | PreK
INTERACTIVE SLIDE SHOW | ANIMATED. Help even your neediest special education students connect with core vocabulary using these animated, visually simple and repetitive slides on your smartboard to engage them during AAC group or circle time. Great also to use in the Preschool and Early Intervention classrooms. Students see a school bus entering the scene and stopping at the school crossing where a "smart" turkey holding an item is waiting on the sidewalk to cross. Students click or a tap the
PreK - 2nd
Vocabulary
The Polar Express | Interactive Slide Show | Special Education | Autism AAC
INTERACTIVE SMARTBOARD SLIDES | ANIMATED. Help even your neediest special education students connect with core vocabulary using these animated, visually simple and repetitive slides on your smartboard to engage them during AAC group or circle time. Great also to use with distance learning. The Polar Express travels the tracks, and picks up children along the way. Students click or tap to make the train COME and then GO for the children. This activity has a winter, not Christmas, theme mak
PreK - 3rd
Vocabulary
Load the Patriotic Train | Interactive PowerPoint Slide Show
INTERACTIVE POWERPOINT SLIDE SHOW | SMARTBOARD OR COMPUTER | ANIMATED. Help even your neediest special education students connect with core vocabulary using these animated, visually simple and repetitive slides on your smartboard to engage them during AAC group or circle time. This PowerPoint activity is great to use on all nationals holidays, including the Fourth of July, Memorial Day, Veterans Day or President's Day. The train is coming down the tracks and stops at the loading dock to load
PreK - 2nd
Reading, Vocabulary
Hurrah for the Thanksgiving Day Parade | Interactive PowerPoint Slide Show
INTERACTIVE POWERPOINT SLIDE SHOW | ANIMATED. Help even your neediest special education students connect with core vocabulary using these animated, visually simple and repetitive slides on your smartboard to engage them during AAC group or circle time. Students watch as the Thanksgiving Day parade balloons and floats head down the street and hear the cheering crowd and kids. The balloons and floats stop mid-screen for a close inspection only to go again with a click or a tap. The parade ends
PreK - 2nd
Reading, Vocabulary
Summer Train Express | Interactive PowerPoint Slide Show | Early Intervention
INTERACTIVE POWERPOINT SLIDE SHOW | SMARTBOARD OR COMPUTER | ANIMATED. Help even your neediest special education students connect with core vocabulary using these animated, visually simple and repetitive slides on your smartboard to engage them during AAC group or circle time. Great also to use in preschool and early intervention classrooms. The Summer Train Express is coming down the tracks, but colorful beach objects are blocking the way. The train needs help to go on its way to the Summer
PreK - 3rd
Vocabulary
Mega Bundle Songs and Books for Kids | AAC Core Vocabulary | Autism
This Mega Bundle includes all of my 28 Song Videos and Books files. You will get a total of 690 YouTube links to core word song videos, online books and online read alouds. Each core word file comprises a unique set of resources. There is little to no duplication of song videos, online books or stories giving you a wide variety of resources to use with your students on a daily basis all year long whether you do core “Word of the Week” or “Word of the Day.” **************************************
PreK - 2nd
Music, Vocabulary
What Pet Should I Get? | Interactive Slide Show | PreK | Early Intervention
INTERACTIVE POWERPOINT SLIDE SHOW | COMPUTER OR SMARTBOARD | FUN ANIMATION AND SOUND EFFECTS. Help your students read simple sentences while practicing the core words DO, YOU and NO using this slide show on your smartboard to engage them during AAC group or circle time. Great also to use in the preschool and early intervention classrooms. Students help a friend find a "just right" pet by tapping or clicking the screen to reveal various pet possibilities. In the end, he decides a guinea pig is
PreK - 2nd
Reading, Vocabulary
Ten on the Road Community Vehicles | Interactive PowerPoint Slide Show
INTERACTIVE POWERPOINT SLIDE SHOW | ANIMATED. Help even your neediest special education students connect with core vocabulary using these animated, visually simple and repetitive slides on your smartboard to engage them during AAC group or circle time. This is a transportation themed PowerPoint slideshow that is a re-imagined version of the popular book, Ten in the Bed, with ten community vehicles. The community vehicles are all stopped in city traffic. Students (or teacher) read the sent
PreK - 2nd
Reading, Vocabulary
Also included in: Ten on the Road Community Vehicles Bundle
Patriotic Parade | Interactive Slide Show | PreK | Early Intervention
NTERACTIVE SMARTBOARD SLIDES | ANIMATED. Help even your neediest special education students connect with core vocabulary using these animated, visually simple and repetitive slides on your smartboard to engage them during AAC group or circle time. This cleverly created parade activity's red, white and blue theme offers you the versatility to use with your students on all of the patriotic holidays: President's Day, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Martin Luther KIng Day, Constitution Day, Flag Day
PreK - 2nd
Vocabulary
Go Bus Go | Interactive PowerPoint Slide Show | Autism | AAC
If you download this freebie, please leave a review - even if it's just two words. I would really appreciate that. Thank-you. This is a fun school bus freebie to enjoy with your students! School busses drive away, and engines roar all on a click or a tap. Great practice for the core word, GO! I create simple grab and go interactive PowerPoint show activities to use with a Smartboard for busy teachers with limited plan time. You will find these to be highly engaging during circle time or gro
PreK - 3rd
Vocabulary
Funny Cat Fishing | Interactive PowerPoint Slide Show | AAC Core Vocabulary
INTERACTIVE POWERPOINT SLIDE SHOW | ANIMATED. Help even your neediest special education students connect with core vocabulary using these animated, visually simple and repetitive slides on your smartboard to engage them during AAC group or circle time. Great also to use in the Preschool and Early Intervention classrooms. On a click or a tap, a cute cat fisherman raises his pole to reveal a pretty wild catch each time (kitchen pot, bike, bathtub). Lots of silliness for the class to laugh at. Yo
PreK - 2nd
Reading, Vocabulary
The Christmas Parade | Interactive PowerPoint Slide Show
INTERACTIVE POWERPOINT SLIDE SHOW | ANIMATED. Help even your neediest special education students connect with core vocabulary using these animated, visually simple and repetitive slides on your smartboard to engage them during AAC group or circle time. Students watch as the Christmas parade balloons and floats head down the street and hear the cheering crowd and kids. The balloons and floats stop mid-screen for a close inspection only to go again with a click or a tap. The parade ends with a
PreK - 2nd
Reading, Vocabulary
Ghostly Stop and Go | Interactive Slide Show | AAC Core Vocabulary | PreK
INTERACTIVE SLIDE SHOW | ANIMATED. Help even your neediest special education students connect with core vocabulary using these animated, visually simple and repetitive slides on your smartboard to engage them during AAC group or circle time. Great also to use in the Preschool and Early Intervention classrooms. Students see a school bus entering the scene and stopping at the school crossing where a ghost holding an item is waiting on the sidewalk to cross. Students click or a tap the ghost to
PreK - 2nd
Vocabulary
Creatures We See in the Deep Blue Sea | Interactive Slide Show | Vocabulary
INTERACTIVE SLIDE SHOW | COMPUTER OR SMARTBOARD | FUN ANIMATION AND SOUND EFFECTS. Help your students learn the names of ocean animals and practice the core words, ME, STOP and GO, using this slide show on your smartboard to engage them during AAC group or circle time. Great also to use in the preschool and early intervention classrooms. I took a dive into the deep blue sea. So many creatures swam past me!Students click or tap the screen to see various sea creatures swim past the sub and off th
PreK - 2nd
Vocabulary
Thanksgiving on the Farm | Interactive PowerPoint Slide Show
INTERACTIVE POWERPOINT SLIDE SHOW | ANIMATED. Help even your neediest special education students connect with core vocabulary using these animated, visually simple and repetitive slides on your smartboard to engage them during AAC group or circle time. Students click or tap the bushel basket each farm animal brings to see what Thanksgiving dish was made with each type of vegetable. For example, Sheep brings a bushel basket of potatoes to make mashed potatoes. Both the food items and matchin
PreK - 2nd
Reading, Vocabulary
Bubble Pop | Interactive PowerPoint Slide Show | Early Intervention | Autism AAC
If you download this freebie, please leave a review - even if it's just two words. I would really appreciate that. Thank-you. INTERACTIVE POWERPOINT SLIDE SHOW | SMARTBOARD OR COMPUTER | ANIMATED. Help even your neediest special education students connect with core vocabulary using these animated, visually simple and repetitive slides on your smartboard to engage them during AAC group or circle time. Great also to use with distance learning. On a click or tap, bubbles pop to reveal small pictu
PreK - 3rd
Reading, Vocabulary
I Like Thanksgiving Dinner | Interactive PowerPoint Slide Show
INTERACTIVE POWERPOINT SLIDE SHOW | ANIMATED. Help even your neediest special education students connect with core vocabulary using these animated, visually simple and repetitive slides on your smartboard to engage them during AAC group or circle time. Students click or tap the question mark on the screen to finish the sentence, "I like...". Once clicked, a Thanksgiving food item appears on the table in front of the boy, and the name of the item appears on the screen as well accompanied by
PreK - 2nd
Reading, Vocabulary
Do You Like School Lunch? | Interactive Slide Show | AAC Core Vocabulary
INTERACTIVE SLIDE SHOW | SMARTBOARD OR COMPUTER | ANIMATED. Help even your neediest special education students connect with core vocabulary using these animated, visually simple and repetitive slides on your smartboard to engage them during AAC group or circle time. Students tap or click either a happy face or a sad face to answer the question, "Do you like _____," in response to the pictured school lunch item. Once clicked, the faces disappear and either the sentence, "Yes, I do," or "No,
PreK - 3rd
Vocabulary
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About the store
Experience
As a dedicated educator with extensive experience in teaching young children, I am here to help teachers meet a wide range of student needs by creating resources that are highly engaging yet easy to prepare. I have hundreds of pre-academic and early academic materials available for you to select from, and most come in both a print and digital (drag and drop) format. Colorful, interactive and attention grabbing, these resources are sure to be a favorite with your students whether you elect to use them for circle time, individual instruction, online learning or homeschooling.
Teaching style
Children respond to engaging and colorful resources. As teachers, we can use resources such as interactive books, worksheets, Smart Board PowerPoints or song videos to help students learn.
Awards & shining teacher moments
I was recently made a life member of the American Speech-Language and Hearing Association (ASHA).
My own education history
I received both my Bachelor and Master's degrees in Speech Pathology from Michigan State University. I am a licensed speech pathologist in the state of Michigan.
Additional biographical information
Now retired, I spend a lot of my time creating and updating activities for my store. I work at my own pace!
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