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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

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

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

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

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

Help your students develop their phonemic awareness and phonics skills with this engaging and interactive digraph word activity. This resource includes 24 flashcards each featuring a different digraph word. Digraphs included in this set are -th, -sh, and -ch. Students are given the letters of the word and must fill in the ending letter in the box based on the sound they hear when they say the word with the picture support. This activity is perfect for students in pre-kindergarten to second grade

Behavior visuals are an important tool to help students know what behavior is expected of them. This resource makes it easy to provide an individualized positive replacement behavior visual for special education students with ADHD, autism, dyslexia, and processing deficits. Just print, laminate, and add a binder ring to attach to a lanyard so you have them available wherever you go in your school! Additionally, larger sizes are also available if you would like to make mini-posters for the classr

A positive reinforcement system is an important tool to increase a target or replacement behavior. Using a token chart is an easy way to reinforce special education students with autism, ADHD, dyslexia, and behavioral concerns. When a student is shown an array of "menu items", the rewards become more appealing, thus leading to more desired/positive behavior. This reinforcer menu keeps student choice in mind. Print, laminate, and velcro the different reward visuals and tokens to work on increasin

Help your students develop their phonemic awareness and phonics skills with this engaging and interactive CVC word activity. This resource includes 44 flashcards each featuring a different CVC word. Students are given the first two letters of the word and must fill in the ending letter in the Elkonin box based on the sound they hear when they say the word with the picture support. This activity is perfect for students in pre-kindergarten to second grade, and is suitable for use in the classroom,

Help your students develop their phonemic awareness and phonics skills with this engaging and interactive CVC word activity. This resource includes 44 flashcards each featuring a different CVC word. Students are given the last two letters of the word and must fill in the beginning letter in the Elkonin box. This activity is perfect for students in pre-kindergarten to second grade, and is suitable for use in the classroom, as well as at home. It is an excellent way to practice and reinforce phone

A Calm Down Corner can be a great tool for students to have a safe space to de-escalate. This aligns with Responsive Classroom's "take a break" classroom management strategy. Meet your students social-emotional needs with this Calm Down Corner kit. This resource includes:Calm Down Corner Poster2 Posters with Yoga Poses3 Posters of Emotion Vocabulary with Pictures5 Posters of Breathing Strategies2 Posters of De-escalation StrategiesCheck out my other resources that are aimed for special educatio

Help your students build phonological awareness with this interactive Elkonin box tool for practicing medial vowels in CVC words. This resource includes 44 flashcards, each featuring a picture support and a box for students to write the medial vowel (given the beginning sound and ending sound). This activity is perfect for use at a literacy center or station in the classroom, as well as at home. It is suitable for students in pre-kindergarten to second grade and can be easily adapted to meet the

A First-Then Board is an important tool to help students with completing an important task first. It can add structure and routine to a block of time in a special education student's schedule. This resource makes it easy to provide an individualized first-then structure to a student's schedule with several schedule visuals to choose from along with several positive behavior visuals and reward visuals. Included in this product:8 First-Then Boards12 Schedule Visuals12 Positive Behavior Visuals27

Welcome spring with this fun and engaging task box for practicing beginning sounds! With 12 colorful cards featuring spring-themed pictures, your students will have plenty of opportunities to identify the correct beginning sound for each image. Simply have them choose the corresponding letter from the provided tiles and place it on the card. This task box is perfect for small group or independent practice, and it's an excellent way to reinforce phonemic awareness skills in a meaningful and enjoy

A social story is an important tool to help students with behaviors on the playground at recess. 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 to practice skills related to prosocial behavior, social communication, emotion management, and behavior expectations. Priming is a behavior management strategy that involves showing/telling a student what is u

These digital task cards with Spanish "who" questions are the perfect resource for receptive language learning and development for bilingual and immersion special education classrooms. Each task card comes with three different visuals for students to choose from. These task cards are perfect for helping students develop their Spanish vocabulary, comprehension, receptive language and communication skills. Ideal for one-on-one support or with a small group. This resource includes: 14 Google Slid

Help your students develop their phonemic awareness and phonics skills with this engaging and interactive consonant blend word activity. This resource includes 28 flashcards each featuring a different digraph word. Consonant blends included in this set are CR, BR, FL, CR, GL, PL, SC, SM, SN, ST. Students are given the letters of the word and must fill in the ending letter in the box based on the sound they hear when they say the word with the picture support. This activity is perfect for student

Make counting practice engaging and interactive with this Spring-Themed Counting 20-50 Google Slides activity! Designed for whole-group instruction, this digital resource helps young learners build number recognition and counting fluency in a fun, seasonal way. What’s Included:✔️ A Google Slides presentation featuring opportunities to count the numbers 20-50 ✔️ Interactive, editable slides with clear counting prompts ✔️ Fun, spring themed images Perfect for:✔️ Whole-group math instructio