Something Special Ed

This is a fully scaffolded unit to teach how to convert percents to decimals, as well as how to calculate sales discounts (working towards appropriately using coupons). This unit has step-by-step prompts throughout and is appropriately scaffolded for a special education math class.

This is an activity that gives students the opportunity to make purchases based on an order ticket. They will be asked to locate the price of each item, correctly calculate the quantity of each item, pay with the appropriate bills/coins combination, as well as make the appropriate change when asked. The slides can be easily edited to change the prices and/or items shown. This has two levels of modifications.

Get festive this Valentine's Day season with your math class! This is a word problem lesson that touches on all four operations and has a focus on utilizing keywords. Feel free to add more problems to your slides lesson or split the operations across multiple days.

This is a story about Linda's Valentine's Day party. Attached to this activity are literal and inferential questions based on the text. A writing activity or Valentine's Day craft could easily be added to the end of this reading if you'd like to extend the assignment!

This is a budgeting activity that has your students use their given budget to decide what they can purchase without going over their spending limit. It will ask your students to identify different prices such as most expensive and least expensive items, as well as what their change will be after buying certain items. This activity can easily be turned into more of a hands-on activity when incorporating store circulars instead!

Journal writing activity based on Thanksgiving traditions and reflection. This activity allows for brainstorming, structured writing, and an editing/revising process. It is a great activity/ lesson for students around the Thanksgiving holiday!

This is a fun journal writing activity for students of any age! The graphic organizers included break-down the activity into three different parts in order to help build on each skill (ie. brainstorming, drafting complete sentences, building each paragraph). This activity can be used to work on skills like writing a complete paragraph, writing multiple paragraphs on a given topic, and editing/revising.

A fun superhero journal writing activity to help with skills such as creative writing, paragraph structure, and writing multiple paragraphs on a given topic! This can be used over multiple writing lessons (ie. writing a claim, topic sentences, supporting details, concluding sentence, editing/revising).