Learning Simplified

I use this activity to teach my students how to add money, as well as, how to figure out how much two items will cost at a restaurant. Included are differentiated visual menus, picture cards of each food on the menu and differentiated money addition boards and how much change will I get back boards to be filled in for practice. This file includes the following: McDonald's Visual Menuspage 1: real restaurant prices (based on large sized food items and Illinois prices)page 2: prices are all based

I use this activity to teach my students how to add money, as well as, how to figure out how much two items will cost at a restaurant. Included are differentiated visual menus, picture cards of each food on the menu and differentiated money addition boards and how much change will I get back boards to be filled in for practice. This file includes the following: Wendy's Visual Menus page 1: real restaurant prices (based on large sized food items and Illinois prices)page 2: prices are all based on

This is a To Do - Priority List I use with my students who struggle with organization, executive functioning and time management. Students can add assignments and work to the "To Do" portion on the top half throughout the day. They can either fill in the priority number as they add assignments/work to do as they write them in or at the end of the day. Students then transfer their assignments/work to be done to the bottom half in order based on their priority numbers. Students who struggle wi

This is a good listening reward strip I created for my students with Autism who had a difficult knowing if what he was doing was perceived as good listening by his teachers and peers. He benefited from visually seeing when he was doing good listening during an activity. The immediate visual response from an adult letting him know that he was doing good listening enabled him associate what he was doing with how adults perceive his actions. I print these on card stock and laminate. On the good

This is a cut and glue activity I created for a student to correctly sequence the life cycle stages of a turtle.

This is a sorting activity I created for one of my students to decide if a picture is a mammal or an amphibian.

This is a assignment completion checklist I used with an 8th grade student who had difficulty completing homework, remembering if he completed it and where he put it and didn't want to raise attention to himself to ask for help when he didn't understand how to complete his homework. I filled in the "last nights assignments" column and he filled in the rest at the beginning of the day in my resource period. Then I would just have to walk by and see what he had completed, needs to complete and n

This is a writing checklist I created for a student who struggles with writing grade appropriate sentences. This has helped him check his work and make the corrections necessary to improve his writing skills.

I made these talking tickets for a kindergartner who was always blurting out. I would give him a designated amount of tickets each day to use. When you wanted to ask a question or tell me something unrelated to what we were doing, I would ask him if you wanted to use one of his tickets. Initially he went through his tickets very quickly, but soon started to learn what was worthy of using a ticket for and what he didn't want to waste a ticket on to say. The amount of times he blurted out sign

This is a reader response writing checklist I created for my students so they can make sure they have included all the required components.

This is a reader response writing checklist I created for my students so they can make sure they have included all the required components.