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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IN Adapted Interactive Book "Who's in the Barn?" | AAC Core Vocabulary
This is a simple core word adapted interactive book you can use with your students in a printable or digital format. It is the companion to my animated interactive smartboard slide show, Who's in the Barn. Students place farm animals in Old McDonald's barn in response to the sentence read aloud. Example: "I see a cow in the barn." You will get two sets of Velcro pieces, pictures only and pictures with the printed words. Animals (10) include: Cow, pig, horse, cat, duck, chicken, goose, duck
PreK - 1st
Reading, Vocabulary
LOOK, HERE, COME Adapted Interactive Book "Transportation Sounds" | Onomatopoeia
This is a very simple core word adapted interactive book you can use with your young students in a printable or digital format. The onomatopoeia in this adapted book makes learning about vehicles fun! Students place a matching vehicle on the page in response to the sentence read aloud. Example: "Look! Here comes a train. Choo-Choo-Choo." (Student would place a train on the page to match the one in the big picture.) Transportation vehicles and onomatopoeia (12) include: Airplane - Woosh-Woo
PreK - K
Reading, Vocabulary
Also included in: Onomatopoeia Fun Bundle 1 | Sounds Adapted Interactive Book Bundle
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
HELP, STOP and WHAT Adapted Interactive Book "Christmas Train Rescue"
This is a simple Christmas core word adapted book you can use with your students in a printable or digital format. It is the printable companion to my best selling animated interactive smartboard slide show, Christmas Train Rescue. The forest and farm animals have lost their way in the snowstorm and have wandered onto the train tracks STOPPING the train. Students place various animal pieces (12 total) on the tracks in response to the sentence read. Example: "What stopped the train? A bear
PreK - 1st
Reading, Vocabulary
STOP Adapted Interactive Book "Train Stop" | AAC Core Vocabulary
This is a simple core word adapted book you can use with your students in a printable or digital format. It is the printable companion to my animated interactive smartboard slide show, Train Stop. Students place various simple cargo items (12 total) to load the "Thomas" style train in response to the sentence read. Example: "Stop train! Load the chairs." Train cargo (12 common items) include: Barbecue grill. chairs, door, washing machine, playground structure, bed, couch, dresser, lawnmowe
PreK - 1st
Reading, Vocabulary
MY Adapted Interactive Book "Guess My Pet" | Early Intervention | AAC Autism
This is a simple core word adapted book about pets you can use with your students in a printable or digital format. Students are given three clues in order to identify the pet described by placing its picture on the page. Example: My pet wears a collar, goes for walks and barks. Pets (12) include: Turtle, parrot, hamster, frog, cat, bird, gecko, dog, bunny, goldfish, snake and guinea pig. This adapted book has a companion worksheet set, Guess My Pet Activity Pack for Early Learners. YO
PreK - 2nd
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
STOP and IN Adapted Interactive Book "Gingerbread Man Run" | AAC
This is a simple holiday core word adapted interactive book you can use with your students in a printable or digital format. It is the companion to my animated interactive smartboard slide show, Gingerbread Man Run. Students place colorful toys on the pages in response to the sentence read aloud. Example: "Stop gingerbread man. I see a toy train in your bag." Colorful toys (10) include: Toy train, doll, beach ball, rubber duckie, wind-up car, puzzle, toy drum, alphabet blocks, toy boat a
PreK - 1st
Reading, 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
Communication Rating Scale for Severe Autism and Related Disabilities
This is a classroom-based observational rating scale designed to be used with non-verbal/pre-verbal students. It is a criterion-referenced assessment that can be used to evaluate students of any age who are in the very early stages of communication development. It can be completed by a special education teacher, speech pathologist or a special education team. Use this rating scale to assess your lowest students. It gives you the ability to assess those who are otherwise not able to participate
PreK - 5th
Other (ELA)
I and WANT Adapted Interactive Book "All I Want For Christmas" | AAC
This is a simple Christmas core word adapted interactive book you can use with your students in a printable or digital format. It is the companion to my animated interactive smartboard slide show, All I Want For Christmas. Students place Christmas wishes on the page as per the wishes of the 15 different kids. Example: "All I want for Christmas is a train." Christmas wishes (15) include: Piano, bike, kitty, train, car, book, puppy, iPad, guitar, princess doll, football, firetruck, spaceship
PreK - 1st
Reading, Vocabulary
"Train Friends Color Match" Printable File Folder Activity/Digital Games
This is a simple file folder color matching activity you can use with your students in printable or digital format. It is a companion to my animated interactive smartboard slide show, Train Friends. Students place colorful "Thomas" style train engines onto the tunnels on the pages. You will get four templates: Errorless, Match Colors to Colors, Match Colors to Colors with Color Words and Match Colors to Color Words. Make just one or make all four. Included also are two sets of matching p
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
LIKE Adapted Interactive Book "Elephant Likes Ice Cream" | Color Identification
This is a simple color word themed core word adapted book you can use with your students in a printable or digital format. Students place colorful ice cream scoops on Elephant's cone in response to the sentence read aloud. Example: Elephant likes red. Students match the color of the scoops to the text color. You will get two sets of colored scoop Velcro pieces to choose from, with or without color words. Colorful ice cream cones (10) include: Red, green, yellow, blue, pink, purple, white
PreK - 1st
Reading, Vocabulary
Also included in: Colors Bundle 2 | 4 Adapted Interactive Books for AAC Core Vocabulary
WHAT and I Adapted Interactive Book "Ocean Animals" | What Do I See?
This is a simple ocean animal core word/vocabulary adapted book you can use with your students in a printable or digital format. Students place ocean animal picture pieces on the ocean scene page in response to the words read aloud. Example: "What do I see in the ocean? I see a whale." Students would then place the whale piece on the ocean scene page. You will get two sets of Velcro pieces, pictures only and pictures with the printed words. Ocean animals (12) include: Snail, fish, octo
PreK - K
Reading, Vocabulary
"I" Adapted Interactive Book "Pet Shop Sounds" | Onomatopoeia
This is a very simple core word adapted book you can use with your young students in a printable or digital format. The onomatopoeia in this adapted book makes learning about pets fun! Students place a matching pet on the page in response to the sentence read aloud. Example: "I am a dog. Woof. Woof. Woof." (Student would then place a dog on the page to match the one in the big picture.) Pets and onomatopoeia (10) include: Dog: Woof. Woof. Woof Fish: Glub. Glub Bird: Tweet. Tweet. Tweet.
PreK - K
Reading, Vocabulary
Also included in: Onomatopoeia Fun Bundle 2 | Sounds Adapted Interactive Book Bundle
PUT, IT and IN Adapted Interactive Book "Scarecrow's Pocket of Fall Things"
This is a simple scarecrow "lift the flap" core word adapted interactive book you can use with your students in a printable or digital format. Students place fall items in Scarecrow's pocket in response to the sentences read aloud. Example: "Scarecrow found a pinecone and put it in his pocket!" Fall items (10) include: Cob of corn, acorn, sunflower, yellow gourd, little pumpkin, apple core, leaf, mushroom, baby crow and acorn. YOU CAN ACCESS THIS ACTIVITY IN A DIGITAL DRAG AND DROP FORMAT U
PreK - K
Reading, Vocabulary
Also included in: Scarecrow Bundle 2 | 3 Adapted Interactive Books
PUT and ON Adapted Interactive Book "Duck's Truck" for AAC Core Vocabulary
This is a simple core word adapted interactive book you can use with your students in a printable or digital format. It is the companion to my animated interactive smartboard slide show, Duck's Truck. Students place bushel baskets of fruits and vegetables on Duck's truck in response to the sentence read aloud. Example: "Put watermelons on Duck's truck." Bushel baskets of fruits and vegetables (10) include: Potatoes, apples, onions, broccoli, carrots, pumpkins, blueberries, green beans, wate
PreK - 1st
Reading, 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 and WANT Adapted Interactive Book "The Teddy Bear Picnic" | AAC | PreK
This is a simple core word adapted interactive book you can use with your students in a printable or digital format. Students place bear-type picnic food items on the page in response to the sentences read aloud. Example: "I want some honey!" Picnic items (8) include: Honey, sandwich, watermelon, cupcake, honey cake, strawberries, jelly, flower cookie. YOU CAN ACCESS THIS ACTIVITY IN A DIGITAL DRAG AND DROP FORMAT USING EASEL.This adapted book coordinates with my interactive slide show,
PreK - K
Reading, 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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