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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Who's in the Barn? | Interactive Slide Show | PreK | Early Intervention
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 in the preschool and early intervention classrooms. Students will hear a farm animal sound and have fun trying to guess who is in Old McDonald's barn. The barn door slides open on a click or a tap to reveal who's inside. The 12 far
PreK - 1st
Reading, Vocabulary
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
Funny Fishing | 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. Great also to use in the Preschool and Early Intervention classrooms. On a click or a tap, a penguin fisherman raises his pole to reveal a pretty wild catch each time (TV, bathtub, slippers, etc.). Lots of silliness for the class to laugh at. Yo
PreK - K
Reading, Vocabulary
Train Friends Bundle for AAC Core Vocabulary | Autism | Early Intervention
This bundle includes all three of my "Thomas" style Train Friends listings. You will get: One animated interactive smartboard PowerPoint, one adapted book, one file folder activity and two Easel drag and drop files. **************************************************************************************** Customer Tips:How to get TPT credit to use on future purchases:Please go to your My Purchases page (you may need to login). Next to each purchase you will see a black Leave a Review button. Si
PreK - 1st
Reading, Vocabulary
School Bus Rescue | Interactive Slide Show | PreK | Early Intervention
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. Students watch as the school bus heads down the road. But wait - the animals have lost their way and have wandered into the road STOPPING the bus. Students must HELP the school bus by clicking or tapping the animals to make them disappear so that t
PreK - K
Vocabulary
Old MacDonald's Farm Counting | Interactive PowerPoint Slide Show
INTERACTIVE SMARTBOARD CHOICE BOX SLIDESHOW ACTIVITY | FUN SOUND EFFECTS. Help your students count the farm animals on Old MacDonald's farm, describe, and practice the core word ALL using this animated farm activity on your smartboard to engage them during AAC group or circle time. Students count the animated animal GIFS (1 through 10) on the slide and then tap or click the correct number in the task box at the bottom of the slide. Each number is represented two times giving you a total of 20
PreK - 1st
Numbers, Reading, Vocabulary
I Want Some | Farm Animals | Interactive PowerPoint Slide Show
INTERACTIVE POWERPOINT SLIDE SHOW | COMPUTER OR SMARTBOARD | FUN ANIMATION AND SOUND EFFECTS. Help your students read simple sentences in this story about sharing while practicing core words I, WANT, NO, MAKE, ALL and SOME using this animated 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. Pig makes a variety of food items but will not share with his animal friends. On a click or a tap, students
PreK - 1st
Reading, Vocabulary
What Animals Want | Interactive PowerPoint Slide Show
INTERACTIVE POWERPOINT 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. A cute farm/zoo animal walks to the table. Students click or tap each to make a food item appear on the table telling us what the animal wants. This animated interactive PowerPoint slide show has a companion printable adapted book (includes an E
PreK - K
Reading, Vocabulary
Gingerbread Man Run Interactive PowerPoint Slide Show
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 in the Preschool and Early Intervention classrooms. The gingerbread man flies into view with a shopping bag and stops. A sentence appears at the bottom of the screen naming the toy in his bag. Students tap or click the gingerbr
PreK - K
Reading, Vocabulary
Duck's Truck | Interactive Slide Show | Early Intervention | AAC Autism
INTERACTIVE SLIDE SHOW | COMPUTER OR SMARTBOARD | FUN ANIMATION AND SOUND EFFECTS. Help your students read simple sentences while practicing counting from 1 to 10 and the core words PUT IN using this animated 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. On a click or a tap, students put the targeted number (1 through 10) of vegetable or fruit bushel baskets in Duck's truck. Bushel baskets (
PreK - 1st
Vocabulary
Marshmallow Counting and Colors | Interactive PowerPoint Slide Show
INTERACTIVE SLIDESHOW | COMPUTER OR SMARTBOARD | FUN ANIMATION AND SOUND EFFECTS. Help your students read simple sentences while practicing color identification, counting and the core words WANT and LIKE using these two slide shows 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, students give woodland animal friends marshmallows in response to the sentence read aloud. Examples: Mar
PreK - 1st
Numbers, 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
Ten on the Road Community Vehicles Bundle
This is a bundle of 3 coordinated transportation themed activities. Includes: One interactive book, one PowerPoint slide show and one worksheet packet, These are great for AAC practice or to use during circle time in the early intervention and preschool classrooms. *************************************************************************************** Customer Tips:How to get TPT credit to use on future purchases:Please go to your My Purchases page (you may need to login). Next to each purchas
PreK - 1st
Reading, Vocabulary
The Shipwreck | What Do I See? | Ocean | Interactive PowerPoint Slide Show
INTERACTIVE POWERPOINT SLIDE SHOW | COMPUTER OR SMARTBOARD | FUN ANIMATION AND SOUND EFFECTS. Use this engaging PowerPoint on your laptop or Smartboard to help your students practice the core words, I and ON. Great to use in the Preschool, Kindergarten and Early Intervention classrooms. Students will see various sea creatures on the shipwreck as they click the slide pages. On a second click or a tap, the sea creatures swim away off the screen. Includes 12 sea creatures: Fish, shark, octopu
PreK - 1st
Reading, Vocabulary
Go Zoo Animals Go | Interactive Slide Show | Early Intervention | AAC Autism
INTERACTIVE SLIDE SHOW | COMPUTER OR SMARTBOARD | FUN ANIMATION AND SOUND EFFECTS. Help your students learn names of zoo animals, identify colors, and read simple sentences while practicing the core words STOP and GO using this animated slide show on your smartboard or computer to engage them during AAC group or circle time. Great also to use in the Preschool, Kindergarten and Early Intervention classrooms. Students tap or click the screen to make zoo animals in colorful cars go across the sc
PreK - 1st
Reading, Vocabulary
The Jellyfish Are Driving the School Bus! | Interactive PowerPoint Slide Show
INTERACTIVE POWERPOINT SLIDE SHOW | COMPUTER OR SMARTBOARD | FUN ANIMATION AND SOUND EFFECTS. Use this engaging PowerPoint on your laptop or Smartboard to help your students practice the core word, STOP. Great to use in the Preschool, Kindergarten and Early Intervention classrooms. Students will see the jellyfish driving a school bus only to stop at a panicked yellow jellyfish who sees a fellow jellyfish in the way. Students help by tapping or clicking the jellyfish to see it swim off the scr
PreK - 1st
Reading, 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
Do Not Sit Here | Interactive Slide Show | AAC Core Vocabulary | PreK
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. On a click or tap six cute farm animals sit on colorful balance balls, stools and bean bags ignoring the "DO NOT SIT HERE" sign above them. This results in various types of crashes and spin-outs. Students will get a total of 18
PreK - 1st
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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