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Help your special education students learn to stay safe and not run away with this engaging and interactive social story. This resource is perfect for teaching students with autism, emotional disabilities, and other special needs how to handle difficult situations and emotions when they want to elope and run away. With clear and concise language and colorful illustrations, this social story helps students understand the safety concerns of elopement and how to cope with the wanting to run away in

A social story is an important tool to help students decrease target behavior and increase replacement behavior. Task initiation and starting work is a vital behavior for primary grade students. This social story is intended to reinforce positive behaviors for special education students with autism, ADHD, anxiety, and other emotional disabilities in order to initiate a task and start their work. Priming is a behavior management strategy that involves showing/telling a student what is upcoming in

Looking for a resource to help your special education students understand and navigate "big deal" and "little deal" problems? Look no further than "Big Deal vs. Little Deal Problems: A Social Story for Special Education Students"! This social story is specifically designed for special education students, and uses engaging illustrations and simple, age-appropriate language to explain the difference between "big deal" and "little deal" problems. Perfect for group or individual reading, this social

Don't know what kind of reward motivates your student? With this reinforcer survey / inventory, you can interview your student and find out what they dislike, like, and love! This makes a positive reinforcement system or token chart much more effective - because you will use rewards that your student actually likes and responds to! Included in this product:2-page reinforcer survey in multiple colorsinstructions on how to use productOnce you discover what your student will respond do, check out m

Social Story Bundle: Special Education Social Stories for Behavior ManagementThis social story bundle contains 5 social stories about classroom and school behavior.Social Stories Included in this Bundle:Classroom Rules Social StorySafety Social StorySharing Social StorySitting on Carpet Social StoryTask Initiation Social StoryEach story contains a color version and a black & white version. They are in 1/2 pages and meant to be cut out and put together into booklets. All of my stories are writ

Help your special education students learn flexible thinking with this engaging social story. This resource is perfect for teaching students with autism, developmental delays, and other special needs how to handle difficult situations and emotions and to practice flexible thinking. With clear and concise language and colorful illustrations, this social story helps students understand the concept of flexible thinking and how to cope with it in a positive and healthy way. The story covers changes

Help your special education students learn to accept "no" with this engaging and interactive social story. This resource is perfect for teaching students with autism, developmental delays, and other special needs how to handle difficult situations and emotions when they are told "no." With clear and concise language and colorful illustrations, this social story helps students understand the concept of "no" and how to cope with it in a positive and healthy way. The story covers asking for somethi

Students stuck in their way of thinking? This Flexible vs. Rigid Thinking Flashcard Sort can be used as a tool to help students learn flexible and bendy thinking. With this activity, students will learn different scenarios that involve flexible thinking and scenarios that involve rigid thinking so that they can generalize these scenarios to their day to day lives as students! This resource includes:30 scenario cards in color (15 of flexible thinking, 15 of rigid thinking)30 scenario cards in bl

Looking for a comprehensive and engaging social story to help your special education students understand the rules of sitting on carpet and rugs? Look no further than this Digital Special Education Sitting on Carpet Rug Rules Social Story! Our social story is designed specifically for special education students and features simple, easy-to-understand language and clear, visually appealing images to help reinforce important concepts. With our social story, your students will learn about the impor

Behavior management can be challenging. This bundle is meant to get you started right away with supporting challenging behaviors such as aggression and off-task behavior. The bundle includes strategies that would be recommended to teachers by behavior specialists - token/behavior chart, behavior visuals, unexpected vs. expected behavior, first - then visuals, reinforcer survey, a feelings check-in journal and social stories. This resource includes: 5 Social Stories (each story targets a specif

These 24 Characterization Task Cards are a must-have resource for teachers and students looking to improve their handle on characterization and character traits. This set includes 12 cards with tier 1 vocabulary words and 12 cards with tier 2 vocabulary words, providing a range of challenging reading material suitable for students in grades 7-10. This resource includes: 12 Tier 1 Vocabulary Character Trait Task Cards12 Tier 2 Vocabulary Character Trait Task CardsAnswer KeyEach task card features

Help your special education students learn to stay safe and not run away with this engaging and interactive social story. This resource is perfect for teaching students with autism, emotional disabilities, and other special needs how to handle difficult situations and emotions when they want to elope and run away. With clear and concise language and colorful illustrations, this social story helps students understand the safety concerns of elopement and how to cope with the wanting to run away in

Introducing our Google Slides lesson plan for teaching AEC/CER paragraphs! This comprehensive lesson plan is perfect for English Language Arts educators looking to teach their students how to write strong AEC or CER paragraphs. Our lesson plan includes a ready-to-use Google Slides presentation with detailed instructions on how to write an AEC paragraph structure, step-by-step. The presentation includes direct instruction and examples. With this lesson plan, your students will learn how to: Under

Looking for a comprehensive lesson plan on direct and indirect characterization that engages your 7th-10th grade students? This lesson plan includes a dynamic 11-slide Google Slide presentation that covers the following key topics: Definition of characterizationTypes of characterization (direct and indirect)Examples of direct and indirect characterizationReflection on character traits and connection to real-life character traitsPractice exercises for identifying and developing characterizationI

Help your special education students learn the classroom rules and expectations with this engaging social story. This resource is perfect for teaching students with autism, developmental delays, and other special needs how to behave in a classroom and the classroom expectations. With clear and concise language and colorful illustrations, this social story helps students understand the concept of classroom behavior and how to cope with it in a positive and healthy way. The story covers following

The terminology of expected behaviors and unexpected behaviors can be really helpful when teaching students what behavior is acceptable and unacceptable. This picture sort can help guide your teaching on these expected behaviors with visuals so students can see what the behaviors look like. Additionally, this picture sort can assist a current BIP on a replacement behavior. This resource includes:Expected vs. Unexpected Signs15 color images of expected behavior15 black and white images of expect

Improve your special education students' winter clothing vocabulary with this engaging and interactive adapted book. This 6-page resource is perfect for students with intellectual disabilities, autism, and speech language needs as it features simple sentences and picture supports to help with language development. To use, simply print and cut out the pages, then have your students match the images to the corresponding pages. They'll love the hands-on aspect of this activity, and you'll love how

A social story is an important tool to help students with safe behaviors. This social story is intended to reinforce positive behaviors (through the use of positive language) for special education students with autism, ADHD, anxiety, and other emotional disabilities in order to decrease aggression and decrease elopement. Priming is a behavior management strategy that involves showing/telling a student what is upcoming in their day so that they can better regulate their emotions when it happens.

A social story is an important tool to help students decrease target behavior and increase replacement behavior. Sharing and taking turns is such a vital behavior for primary grade students. This social story is intended to reinforce positive behaviors for special education students with autism, ADHD, anxiety, and other emotional disabilities in order to follow the classroom rule of sharing and taking turns. Priming is a behavior management strategy that involves showing/telling a student what i

Improve classroom behavior and manage special education students' social skills with our Social Story Bundle. This comprehensive resource includes 5 (plus a BONUS for a total of 6) social stories specifically designed for behavior management in the classroom and school setting. In this bundle, you will find the following social stories: Flexible Thinking Social StoryApologizing and Saying Sorry Social StoryBig Deal or Little Deal? Social StoryEmotions Social StoryCenters and Stations Social Sto