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[Autism and Special Education lesson plan, can also be used for students without autism]. Lesson Focus: Student will learn to follow single verbal commands. Student will hear one-step commands and produce the appropriate action. Lesson Format : The primary lesson is for 1:1 instruction with a teacher or therapist. Preparation: Find a room, or a space within a room, with the least amount of distraction possible. Secure a clean copy of the Skills-Based Lesson Data Sheet to record student performan

[Autism and Special Education lesson plan, can also be used for students without autism]. Lesson Focus: Student will learn to match 44 identical 3D objects, including foods, animals, everyday objects, vehicles, and blocks. Lesson Format : The primary lesson is for 1:1 instruction with a teacher or therapist. Preparation: Pull target objects for the current lesson focus from: 1. LB6 Language Builder: Blocks 2. LB7 Language Builder: 3D-2D Matching Kit: Foods 3. LB8 Language Builder: 3D-2D Match

[Autism and Special Education lesson plan, can also be used for students without autism] This lesson plan reinforces the idea that sometimes, you just need a little help! Students use their problem-solving skills to identify when they need help, then advocate appropriately to get the assistance they need to complete a puzzle that is missing a piece. Skills Practiced: Self-advocacy skills Communication Problem solving Logical thinking Hand-eye coordination Spatial awareness Reasoning, deduction

[Autism and Special Education lesson plan, can also be used for students without autism]. Lesson Focus: Student will learn to copy actions demonstrated by the teacher. Student will begin by modeling simple gross motor actions, progressing to fine motor and more complex actions. Lesson Format : The primary lesson is for 1:1 instruction with a teacher or therapist Preparation: Find a room, or a space within a room, with the least amount of distraction possible. Secure a clean copy of the Skills-Ba

[Autism and Special Education lesson plan, can also be used for students without autism] This lesson plan gives the classic card game Go Fish an emotional makeover! Students work on their expressive and receptive vocabulary and understanding of the five basic emotions, all while practicing social skills, taking turns, and following the rules of the game. Skills Practiced: Hand-eye coordination Social skills Communication Turn taking Following game rules Expressive identification of emotions R

Lesson Overview Using Stages Bingo sets provides children an opportunity to build various language skills through seeing and hearing new vocabulary words. Objectives/Goals Recognizing and naming familiar foods Building descriptive vocabulary. Recognizing foods by description and providing basic descriptions for foods. Materials -Stages "Fun Food" Bingo (http://www.stageslearning.com/collections/bingo-games/products/fun-foods-bingo) -Real food examples such as raisins, apples, cheese, carrots,

[Autism and Special Education lesson plan, can also be used for students without autism]. Lesson Focus: Student will learn to wait patiently. Student will be required to sit quietly for a short period of time. The required wait time will slowly increase as the student progresses. Lesson Format: The primary lesson is for 1:1 instruction with a teacher or therapist. Location This lesson is intended as an indoor activity that requires the teacher and student to be in the same room with little or n

[Autism and Special Education lesson plan, can also be used for students without autism] - Students will review the Emotion Flash Cards and create their own chart depicting various emotions. Students will then think of emotions they show outside and inside to make a feelings box. Objectives/Goals: • Emotion identification and vocabulary • Fine motor development • Conceptualization skills For almost 20 years Stages Learning has been providing language building tools for therapists, teacher

[Autism and Special Education lesson plan, can also be used for students without autism]. Lesson Focus: Student will learn to imitate sound. Student will begin to imitate simple vocalizations modeled by the teacher and will progress to more difficult vocalizations, words, and sentence Lesson Format : The primary lesson is for 1:1 instruction with a teacher or therapist. Preparation: Find a room, or a space within a room, with the least amount of distraction possible. Secure a clean copy of the C

[Autism and Special Education lesson plan, can also be used for students without autism] Students will learn picture identification based on word association. Skills practiced include receptive language and photo discrimination. The student will learn the names of objects by looking at pictures of the objects on a card and simultaneously listening to the spoken label of the same object. Skills Practiced: Receptive language Picture identification Photo discrimination Materials Needed: Stages

[Autism and Special Education lesson plan, can also be used for students without autism] This lesson plan practices sentence building, picture identification and vocabulary development. Students look at pictures of objects and describe the function of each item. Skills Practiced: Picture identification Vocabulary development Materials Needed: Stages Learning Materials Language Builder Nouns 2 (http://www.stageslearning.com/collections/autism-products/products/language-builder-picture-noun-car

[Autism and Special Education lesson plan, can also be used for students without autism]. This lesson plan focuses on the uses of adjectives and other descriptive terms to discuss the attributes of objects shown in the pictures with a teacher, and develops picture identification and vocabulary skills. Students will practice using adjectives and other descriptive terms to discuss the attributes of objects shown in the pictures with a teacher. Students will work toward using complete sentences a

[Autism and Special Education lesson plan, can also be used for students without autism] In this activity, students use sentence stems to infer how different workers might feel on the job. For example, a teacher may show students a picture of a firefighter. Students would fill in the blank, “She feels ________ when she gets called to put out a fire”. More advanced students can explain their responses, “She feels ________ when she gets called to put out a fire because ________”. Skills Practic

[Autism and Special Education lesson plan, can also be used for students without autism] Students will practice expressive language skills by verbally identifying a picture on a card. Skills practiced include expressive language, picture identification and photo identification. Skills Practiced: Expressive language Picture identification Photo discrimination Materials Needed: Stages Learning Materials Language Builder Noun Picture Nouns 2 (http://www.stageslearning.com/collections/autism-flas

[Autism and Special Education lesson plan, can also be used for students without autism] By touching or pointing to the appropriate card, students show that they recognize the word and can identify the corresponding picture. This activity can be prefaced by the Picture ID lesson to familiarize the student with the pictures he/she is finding. The student will demonstrate his/her receptive language labeling abilities by finding the card that corresponds with the word spoken by the teacher. Skil

[Autism and Special Education lesson plan, can also be used for students without autism]. Students increase their understanding of jobs, tools used for certain jobs and identify features of particular workers by guessing which occupation the teacher is describing. The student will guess which occupation the teacher is describing. This activity is more advanced and should be done after the students have successfully completed several rounds of the “Tell me About” exercise using the Occupation C

[Autism and Special Education lesson plan, can also be used for students without autism] Students will learn job identification and better understanding of tools and identifying features of particular workers as they respond to the prompt, "Tell me about..." to describe a worker and/or a worker’s job as depicted on Language Builder Occupation Cards. Skills Practiced: Job identification Understanding of tools used for certain jobs Recognition of identifying features of particular workers (i.e.,

[Autism and Special Education lesson plan, can also be used for students without autism] Students will match December holiday vocabulary words with emotion cards by creating a holiday sentence. Skills Practiced: • Expressive language • Emotion identification • Sentence construction Materials Stages Learning Materials Language Builder: Emotion Cards (http://www.stageslearning.com/products/language-builder-emotion-cards) For almost 20 years Stages Learning has been providing language building

[Autism and Special Education lesson plan, can also be used for students without autism] Students will verbalize an inference about the events leading up to a visual scene by explaining “what just happened” in response to visual cues. Objectives/Goals: Expressive language Emotion identification Verbal syntax Inferential reasoning Cause & effect Materials - Stages Learning Materials Language Builder: Emotion Cards (http://www.stageslearning.com/products/language-builder-emotion-cards) For alm

[Autism and Special Education lesson plan, can also be used for students without autism] In this activity, children will work on recognizing beginning letters of words and will find corresponding plastic letter to build basic letter knowledge. Objectives/Goals: Recognize letters Successfully match plastic letters to word beginning with the same letter. Build gross motor and fine motor skills through picking up and moving letters to the corresponding Language Builder Card. Materials -U-Play M