Creating Abilities

These assessments can be used at the beginning of the year to assess your students' strengths and needs in the area of phonics/reading. The assessments measure the following: Letter Identification, Letter-Sound Correspondence, CVC words, CCVC Consonant Blends, Digraphs, Dolch Sight words, Passage Fluency, and Reading Comprehension. The assessments are very helpful to better understand where each student needs help and to guide student grouping, lesson planning, and instruction within an early c

Measurement Unit: Volume of liquids Teach students how to read liquid measuring cups through these worksheets. This will help them learn the basics before doing hands on activities with tactile measuring cups. This can also be combined with my Liquid Measuring Cups Presentation, for sale for only $3, which features 18 slides and makes it possible to model and offer guided practice for students learning how to locate and measure ounces and cups.

This is a weekly sheet that helps teachers communicate with parents about a young or nonverbal student's day. Great for elementary and Special Education. It works great in a communication binder or folder and can be sent home and returned each day.

This small group or independent work activity makes it possible for students to sort pictures of different food and beverage items into 3 groups: fridge, freezer, and pantry. There is also an option to sort only refrigerated and pantry items. Printed pictures of a refrigerator, freezer, and pantry serve as three sorting groups. Food and beverage items should be cut out and sorted into the groups.

This file contains 3 worksheets that contain polygons with simple measurements (addends of 5 or less), which makes it easier for students with special needs or difficulty adding larger numbers to learn the concept of finding perimeter. This meets Alabama standard M.AAS.6.21 for perimeter.

This tool is helpful to help students deescalate and get ready for learning when they have become upset, angry, overwhelmed, or overly hyper. I created this to help a student in my class who had a tendency to become overwhelmed and would often escalate into tantrums. My aides and I use the "Take 5" breathing exercise as a deescalation technique as soon as we see signs of escalation, and it has proven to be a game changer! The pdf you will receive with this purchase is one page. This page will ne

This file contains 95 CVC words with pics on 24 pages which can be printed to study with kids in class. Complies with Common Core Standards and Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards: RF.AAS.K.4, RF.AAS.1.4, RF.AAS.2.4, RF.AAS.3.4, RF.AAS.4.4, RF.AAS.5.4

This is a manipulatable schedule for students with Autism or who are experiencing anxiety or behavioral issues at home. It helps students to know what to expect and alleviates stress by showing what is next. Directions for use: Cut the cards and put rough velcro on the back. Attach to a soft velcro strip, either on a board or folder. These can be moved and placed in order on a strip. You may choose to remove each card from the schedule and place in an "All Done" box upon completion of each tas

This is a basic data sheet for DTT, which is set with 5 trials.

This worksheet can be used as a class experiment for special education or elementary classrooms when learning about density.

Motivate students who are exhibiting negative behaviors on the bus to get a ticket with a green face by making good choices. These tickets can be cut and placed on a ring for easy accessibility on the bus. On each bus ride, give the student a green face if they make good choices, a yellow face if they need reminder to follow directions and exhibit minor negative behaviors, orange if they have repeated minor misbehaviors, red if they have a major misbehavior occurrence, or blue if they do someth

Using a white crayon, the teacher will write words on each heart. Students will color the hearts with markers to reveal hidden words. The students will read the words aloud and then create a sentence from the words.

This is a choice board, a kind of token economy. It can be used to motivate a student that refuses to work. The first page is the board. You can print the board on colored or white cardstock. Place a piece of Velcro in each box on the board. The second page contains the stars/tokens and choices. It would be best printed on white cardstock. Cut each of these out and place Velcro on back. Place 4 desirable choices at the top of the board and have the child choose what they are working for. As the

This product was designed for 1:1 practice with students for the Alabama Extended Standards and Alabama Alternate Assessment. Teacher instructions are on one half of each page and student answer choices are on the other half. There are six pages of practice for this standard. Students are able to show competency with number sequencing and written form for numbers.

The Comprehension Companion can be used with any passage to assess or develop comprehension skills.

This is a simple observation form, which works well for anecdotal note taking of individual students within a specific a subject/standard area.

These are signs I created for my students to hold up during a Christmas Program.

This is a sheet that my students use each morning, as they come in to class. It helps them to get focused on the day and what they have to be thankful for.