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NO PREP Social Skills Activity: Inspired by Diane Alber's Little Spot of Emotions series, this activity helps students to identify a spinning worry from a useful worry. 12 situation cards with full-color visualsDiscuss the difference between "spinning worries" and "useful worries"Sort them and have students paste visuals into the matching category

Help your students master emotional regulation with these "I Need Help" Differentiated Worksheets!A great companion to Diane Alber’s A Little Spot of Anxiety and A Little Spot of Worry, these differentiated worksheets help students bridge the gap between feeling "out of control" and asking for help. This resource is perfect for School Counselors, SpEd teachers, and General Ed classrooms looking to strengthen their Social Emotional Learning (SEL) toolkit. Two Levels of Support:sentence stem &

Support your students in mastering classroom expectations with these Whole Body Listening Visuals. Whether you are teaching a new routine or providing a gentle redirection, these posters serve as a consistent point of reference to reduce verbal prompting and build student independence. What’s Included?Large Posters (8.5" x 11"): Perfect for a dedicated "Listening Station" or your main teaching wall.Medium Fit-to-Page: Great for small group tables or individual student desks.Lanyard Size: The u

NO PREP Classroom Expectations Review ActivityPerfect for reviewing classroom norms & expectations after Fall, Thanksgiving, Winter, or Spring BreakEasy cut-and-paste with dotted lines for students with emerging fine motor skillsVisual to Written Text hints

PRINT & GO: Set of 12 task cards focused on application of beginning capitalization and ending punctuation knowledgeAnswer Key includedMinecraft & Roblox themed

Fundations Level 1-Aligned Extension Resource: Engage your students with gamified learningComes with 6 different BINGO boards including:Current Unit Words (digraphs-ch, ck, th, sh, wh)Current Unit Trick Words (as, has, she, he, or, into, etc.)

NO PREP SOCIAL SKILLS ACTIVITY:Aligned to Diane Alber's "A Little Spot" Series and curriculum6 scenario cards12 strategy optionsStudent-facing handout included3 tiers of differentiated instruction (engagement, enrichment, print option) in activity directions

NO PREP Social Skills Activity, Includes: 8 situation cards with full-color visuals and dotted lines for easy cuttingSorting categories for "Big Deal" and "Little Deal"Discussion questions and prompts

Based on Diane Alber's "A Little Spot of Feelings" curriculum, this activity adapts the recall and write strategy to a cut & paste feelings sort. Includes:(6) Color-coded feeling word sortsAnxiety Spot worksheet

Includes: Identifying ratios, Identifying geometric 3D figures using nets, Area of a triangle, and Finding the area of a complex figure. Pulled from the 2023 Math Benchmark (Quarter 1, Q1) review from non-calculator section. Includes boxes for showing work or drawing visual representationsIncludes step-by-step checklists for solving questions

Includes: Area formula for triangles, parallelograms, rectangles, and trapezoidsVisual of shape with base and height labeledFour steps to solving the area of each shape using the formulaNote: Use explicit instruction to introduce this scaffolded support (Model it; Practice together; Independent practice) and fade it as necessary.

It's important to reward our students with verbal praise as well as tangible signs of their effort! Use this i-Ready Goal Completion Award to incentivize your students' progress and keep them motivated during the monotony of computerized programming. For my students, I find that 25 lessons is an attainable goal for students to reach every 3-4 weeks, if they are focusing for 15-20 minutes per day on lessons. I also pair this award with a class drum roll, two small prizes from our class "treasur

Helpful for general education teachers and special educators, alike, this anchor chart defines graphic organizers that are appropriate and effective for: Pre-teachingDuring instructionPost-teachingSynthesized from Kearns et al. (2021), Berg & Wehby (2013), and Singleton & Flice (2015).

Readily available data collection sheets are a critical element to successful Special Education intervention and support! This tool is designed to track student behaviors at specific intervals (e.g., 10 seconds, 1 minute, 5 minutes, etc.) throughout a given period. An effective observation will include an operational definition that is measurable, specific, and has examples and non-examples of the target behavior. The coding system (+ and /) denotes whether the behavior occurred or not during e