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This is a visual that comes in three sizes to help model for your students when it is their turn versus when they need to wait for someone else's turn. The differing sizes can be used to account for how obvious you want the cue to be versus how subtle, or to accommodate a student with visual differences like CVI. I recommend color printing and laminating for best use. Once laminated, you can fold the cue cards in half and put some velcro on the inside so "my turn" or "your turn" is visible one

For students who need a quick visual reference for what is safe versus unsafe choices. It can be hard to remember in the moment of unstructured play, such as recess or centers, which choices are safe and which are unsafe (especially for kids who struggle with social cues, nonverbal cues, and sensory input). This visual, with preteaching, can help students quickly check-in to see if their actions are safe or unsafe—two versions for representation.

For students in need of Tier 2 or Tier 3 interventions for behaviors, a Check In Check Out form can hold students accountable and remind them of their individualized goals. For this form, assign a teacher to be your student's Champion. This person will check in with them every morning and every afternoon. 1. Check In - first thing in the morning prior to instruction. The Champion will review the student's goals and reinforce with specific feedback for the day. 2. Throughout the day, the studen

Managing the ins and outs of recess or other times of unstructured play can be hard for our students. For some kids, the desire to engage is there, but the intuitive piece of social play (especially between our neurotypical and neurodivergent students) is a challenge. Without the pressure of demanding social communication, we can offer support to our students by providing them with some examples of social scripts. This can remove the pressure of coming up with phrases on the fly, but help our

Is it really hard for your students to stop mid-activity, even if they're going to come back to it later? For so many kids, whether they're on the spectrum or not, leaving before completing an activity is a source of frustration. These pause "buttons" can help your students understand that there is a chance to come back to an activity later. Print (cardstock makes for thicker, more durable cards) and laminate for repeated use. I recommend folding one pair of the pause/play buttons in half so

Do your students have trouble managing different voice volumes for different situations? Help them decide which animal voice is best and let them be the mouse, the cat, or the LION! For best use, I print and laminate for longevity. These work as desk visuals to be taped down to a student's personal learning space or to post on your whiteboard for quick reference!

Working on number ID 1-20 and want to have some fun? Here are four free BINGO boards that you can use to support active engagement in a variety of ways. Here are some uses for the boards: BINGO game for numeral identification Mix it up and make it a quotient game for high students; you give the division problem, they hunt for the quotient. Working on number words? Present a number word and have your students decode and ID. Have your students use unifix cubes instead of bingo chips to build a qu

Comprehension questions are a huge part of our literacy instruction, especially in the elementary years. For our learners with communication differences, answering WH- questions is even more multi-faceted, as we teach kids the meanings of the WH- question words. Sometimes, we need to make the questions more concrete, by defining what we're looking for when we ask "what," "who," or "where." These are quick print and laminate visuals to support your comprehension lessons and activities for learn

Do you work with students who struggle to manage sensory seeking behaviors that include putting non-food items in their mouths, including those with Pica? While teaching your students appropriate replacement behaviors, we can also give them independent and/or structured activities including a sort to help them see which items are safe for them to chew on and which are not. If you 1. Print, 2. Laminate. and 3. Velcro, your student can use this activity as a structured sort to help them navigate

Do your students struggle with understanding when they cannot have access to something that they are interested in? Teaching that some objects or areas are unavailable is a tricky skill, but one that we can do to help our students start to understand that some things simply are not up for grabs. Pair these visuals with a social narrative around what is and is not available to your students to teach that sometimes, things we really want are not open to us...but there are always other options! Re

Do your students need a quick visual on their desk to help them self-check their behaviors? Using familiar images from the boardmaker system, this top-down visual gives students a quick reference for expected behaviors. Simply print, cut, and laminate for quick use. Tape for a desk for an individualized experience.

For students who are ready to move to a subject by subject check in system. Edit the contract to reflect your classroom schedule order and to set an individualized goal for your student. Remember to set the goal to be attainable each day. Edit the number of stars your student is working towards. One page comes without visuals for easy editing if the goals listed do not match your current behavioral objective for your student. The second page comes with corresponding visuals to support the goal

Do your students need help coming up with activities at recess time? Is the unstructured and highly social time hard for your students, especially those who are neurodivergent? A simple visual can help provide some much-needed structure and guidelines to the recess period, reducing stress and increasing student success. Simply, print, laminate, cut, and velcro to go! These visuals can be laminated and hole-punched to go on a lanyard key ring, or they can be laminated, cut, and velcroed to go

Do you use visuals on your lanyard to support communication, transitions, expectations, and regulation for your students? We all know it can be hard when a student is experiencing dysregulation and you're trying to support them, to help them navigate big feelings in a big world...and then you can't even find the lanyard visual you need without flipping through a bunch! With a one-stop visual for feelings (using Zones for those who are learning it) and regulation supports, you can quickly suppor

When you need to give quick cues to your students on managing their volume levels, using a clear and organized visual approach helps understanding for all students. With the full page visual, you can teach the expectations through modeling, hand cues, and use of clear picture-text pairs to reinforce expectations. Laminate for durability and be sure to post in more than one location, especially by transition spots where volume may need to change. With the desk strips, you have a discrete cue

Trying to find a new way to organize your weekly lesson plans and activities as a special education teacher? Try this google sheet. Featuring rainbow colors, 10 periods to account for all of your pull-out groups, and a place to note if you have support or are co-teaching, keep all of your weekly lesson plans in one spreadsheet. Just duplicate the sheet to create a new week.

Are you an instructional coach in SPED/EC? This Google Form is designed to help you: 1) track meetings with the teachers/IAs/staff that you are supporting to log your work, as well as, 2) help those you're coaching log their thoughts and ideas for your coaching sessions. Now you can keep your coaching records in one place with a Google Form that helps those you are supporting make goals and record their wondering, sparkles, and next steps as you work together to have a productive school year.

Are you working with your students on expressing feelings? Naming big feelings can be a big challenge for a lot of students. When your students default to big actions for their feelings, start to shape that into naming those feelings and validating those big emotions. Laminate, cut, and velcro this one page printable for best use. Use the gray box at the top as a feelings word bank from which students can choose that which best matches their current emotion. When students put the feeling in th

Are your students ready to learn some self-soothing strategies? Do they respond well to picture-text pairs and cues? Print and laminate these cute and functional cards to put in your student's "toolbox" to help them manage dysregulation and other big feelings. These cards work for all students, not just your students with special needs. Learning how to self-regulate is a huge life skill and teaching our kids early helps them manage the rigorous pacing of classrooms as they grow and learn.

A one-page visual for your students if you are playing "I Spy" with your students. With visual cues to prompt communication for the games, as well as visuals to support turn-taking, you can use these picture-text pairs with your EC students and MLL students alike!