Heather Ohl

This 15-page booklet is a step-by-step guide to writing a research paper. It takes the student through each paragraph (5 paragraph essay), with clear brainstorming, rough draft pages, and final copy pages. It explains how to write the paper in an easy-to-understand manner.

When teaching my students with autism about identifying emergencies and calling 911, I use these pictures and scripts. Students use the pictures to identify the given emergencies and then answer the questions (both in writing and verbally) that are asked by 911 operators about the emergency. There is space at the end to create your own emergency situation.

Use these blank checks for check writing practice and/or in conjunction with my Checkbook Simulation Activities. This is two pages, and you can customize it to fit the needs of your students.

Use this sheet with students when teaching them about how to read a recipe. Students complete this sheet to demonstrate knowledge of ingredients, tools needed, cooking directions, steps to complete, and food groups.

In this activity, students differentiate between jobs and careers. They also investigate one job and one career. There is an associated homework assignment included.

Making Microwave Meals and Snacks is a teaching tool I use with my students who have special needs as part of my cooking unit. Students practice reading basic microwave snack/meal packages and then answer questions about how to implement the directions to ensure comprehension before they actually begin making the items in the microwave. Student-friendly items such as pizza, popcorn, and macaroni and cheese are covered in this packet.

This resource lists and defines relevant terms found on standard job applications, such as name, phone number, references, work experience, etc. Next to each term and definition is a space for students to record their individual responses to each question. I use this with my students with special needs to determine which areas need additional practice and which they already know. I also have students use this form as a scaffold when completing actual job applications.

Use this activity to have students practice matching holiday names to holiday symbols. Students cut out the symbols and glue them next to the holiday words. Or, this activity can be laminated, and students can practice the matching again and again!

Use this Survival Vocabulary Assessment for special education students in order to determine student ability to identify survival vocabulary receptively and expressively. Areas of survival vocabulary assessed include: personal information, relationships, time, calendar, spatial orientation, prepositions, daily routines, and community resources.

This guided reading packet includes before reading and during reading guided questions. It also includes a vocabulary section as well as a character traits section for students to complete. Each chapter has its own section with questions. Questions are answered in text boxes and require text support as well as page numbers to show evidence of the response.

Use this complete unit to build your students' skills with writing checks, managing a checking account register, and engaging in hypothetical transactions. Included in this bundle are blank checks, account register, and four days of simulation activities. I use this unit to build financial literacy skills with my middle school and high school students with special needs.

This booklet guides the student through each step of the writing process. Not only is each step outlined, but the student gets hands-on practice engaging with each step in this booklet.

This 5-page booklet guides students through the process of writing a news story. After describing the components of a news story, the booklet has students generate brainstorming for creating their own news story, and then provides a template for a rough draft as well.

In preparation for eating at a restaurant buffet, I teach my students with autism spectrum disorders about the expected/unexpected behaviors associated with buffet dining. Use this resource to have students sort expected/unexpected buffet behaviors. Also included is a cloze activity where students read a paragraph about eating at a buffet and fill in missing words from the provided work bank. Using this resource is a great way to preview and build background knowledge for eating at a buffet.

Use this information sheet for students to practice recalling and writing basic personal information found on many common forms.

This 27-page booklet features craft and activity ideas for fall, Halloween, and Thanksgiving. There is also an extensive book list included for literature connection ideas. The ideas are appropriate for preschool through elementary students.

Use this book guide when reading Henry and Mudge and the Happy Cat with your students. The guide contains background knowledge building, vocabulary activities, and comprehension questions for each chapter. This guide can be used in literature circles, book clubs, with the whole class, or independently.

This reading guide provides chapter by chapter questions for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Each question has a response box that includes a place for page number and text citations as to where the answer was found. Character charts and vocabulary charts are included.

Use this Goldilocks and the Three Bears resource to help your students answer questions about text, retell the story, and compare/contrast this version of the text with another version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

Use this product as an introduction to identifying and labeling basic tools that are used at home and should be part of a tool kit for a first apartment. This is the introductory activity to the tool unit I use with my students. Fifteen basic tools such as hammer, wrench, pliers, and level are included.