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Welcome to my store! With over 17 years of experience as a Special Education Teacher, I am dedicated to supporting students on the autism spectrum, English language learners, and those with mild to severe disabilities. My resources are designed to help teachers save valuable time in prepping and meet the diverse needs of their students. They are student-friendly, differentiated, research-based, and aligned with the Common Core State Standards to ensure that every student has the opportunity to thrive, and a teacher has a chance to breathe. My materials are also designed for inclusivity and diverse learning styles.
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Preview of Earth Day Fine Motor Skills Adapted Activities for SPED Bundle - No Prep

Earth Day Fine Motor Skills Adapted Activities for SPED Bundle - No Prep

These fun, Earth Day fine motor skills activities for Sped and beginning learners include reading, tracing, writing, coloring, identifying numbers, and following a number sequence to complete fun, Earth Day, and environmentally themed pre-writing activities. This bundle is perfect for students who require scaffolded and adapted visual worksheets to build fundamental skills in reading, writing, following step-by-step directions, improving creativity, and developing fine motor skills.This no
Preview of Life Cycle of a Butterfly - math and literacy adapted activities for SPED Bundle

Life Cycle of a Butterfly - math and literacy adapted activities for SPED Bundle

These Life Cycle of a Butterfly science, math, and literacy activities include many adapted and differentiated activities. Your students will learn about the four stages of the butterfly's life cycle through reading, writing, tracing, and coloring activities, using visual readers and mini books that sequence the life of a butterfly. The bundle also includes cut-and-paste worksheets for students who benefit from more fine motor work, as they label, match pictures, words, and sentences t
Preview of Halloween Fine Motor Activities for Sped: Dot Marker, Trace, and Color - No Prep

Halloween Fine Motor Activities for Sped: Dot Marker, Trace, and Color - No Prep

The Halloween fine motor skills activities in this bundle are ideal for developing prewriting skills in beginning learners and special education students, particularly those in self-contained classrooms. These are fun, no prep, print-and-use worksheets that can save you time and help introduce elements of this popular holiday. Your students will engage in activities that cover color by code: numbers and letters, tracing different lines and picture scenes, coloring with dot markers and many
Preview of Back to School Fine Motor Skills Activities Bundle - Alphabet and Numbers - SPED

Back to School Fine Motor Skills Activities Bundle - Alphabet and Numbers - SPED

These time-saving, no-prep, print and use, differentiated, back to school themed activities are perfect for beginning learners, special education students, and newcomers. This bundle includes a school supplies, cut and paste packet that can double up as an arts and crafts activity to build a functional vocabulary base in a fun and engaging way. The school supplies theme is also included in the packet, with pre-writing activities for tracing lines and picture scenes.There are also alph
Preview of Cut & Paste Summer Activities Extended School Year for SPED ELA and Math Bundle

Cut & Paste Summer Activities Extended School Year for SPED ELA and Math Bundle

Are you looking for engaging and fun ELA and math summer themed activities for building foundational skills for your beginning learners? Look no further than this bundle, which contains many differentiated, time saving, print and use worksheets that touch on basic concepts such as spelling and vocabulary building activities related to the summer season, matching words to pictures, pictures to words, and sentences to pictures, completing predictable sentences using word banks, and newly a
Preview of Spring Fun Packet - April  Easter - ELA, Math, Fine Motor Activities Bundle SPED

Spring Fun Packet - April Easter - ELA, Math, Fine Motor Activities Bundle SPED

Are you looking for a Spring fun packet for the month of April with Easter-themed activities? Then look no further than this bundle, which is full of engaging and fun reading, tracing, writing, problem-solving, and coloring activities for beginning learners, newcomers, and special education students. These visual worksheets are perfect for students on the autism spectrum and in self-contained classrooms. They are adapted and differentiated, with no-prep needed to save you time. These
Preview of Winter Color By Code: Numbers, Letters, and Shapes Bundle for SPED - No Prep

Winter Color By Code: Numbers, Letters, and Shapes Bundle for SPED - No Prep

Are you looking for fun and engaging winter color by code ( color by numbers, letters, and shapes) activities for your beginning learners, newcomers, or special education students? Look no further than these time-saving, differentiated packets, which have been adapted for many levels to support the needs of your students and to enable everyone to partake in the learning fun. Your students can enjoy reviewing or learning their numbers 1 to 10, alphabet letters A to Z, and 2D shapes. The
Preview of Back To School ELA and Math Activities Bundle For Special Education - No Prep

Back To School ELA and Math Activities Bundle For Special Education - No Prep

Are you looking for engaging and fun ELA and math activities to build foundational skills in your beginning learners? Look no further than this back to school bundle which contains many differentiated, time saving, print and use worksheets that touch on basic concepts such as, alphabet writing practice A-Z, CVC words with short vowel sounds, reading and writing simple CVC sentences, spelling, encoding and decoding words, identifying colors, calendar work, days of the week, months of the
Preview of Foundational Skills For SPED Bundle - ELA, Math & Fine Motor Skills

Foundational Skills For SPED Bundle - ELA, Math & Fine Motor Skills

Are you looking for foundational skills activities for your special education students that are perfect for morning work, early and fast finishers, beginning learners, ESL newcomers, and students on the autism spectrum? You will love this monthly reading, writing, and fine motor activities. Included are differentiated worksheets you can pick and choose from to meet your students' learning levels. With a structured and consistent format, this packet is an excellent choice for students who
Preview of Number Sense To 100 Bundle: Counting and Cardinality Math Worksheets | SPED

Number Sense To 100 Bundle: Counting and Cardinality Math Worksheets | SPED

Looking for engaging math activities to teach counting and cardinality to foundational learners? This must-have bundle, perfect for back to school, includes differentiated number concept activities up to 100, perfect for Kindergarten beginning-of-year math activities. With no prep required, it's a convenient print-and-go resource that also offers visual support as autism math worksheets for self-contained classrooms and special education classrooms. This is a growing bundle with a printabl
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Experience

Welcome to my store! With over 17 years of experience as a Special Education Teacher, I am dedicated to supporting students on the autism spectrum, English language learners, and those with mild to severe disabilities. My resources are designed to help teachers save valuable time in prepping and meet the diverse needs of their students. They are student-friendly, differentiated, research-based, and aligned with the Common Core State Standards to ensure that every student has the opportunity to thrive, and a teacher has a chance to breathe. My materials are also designed for inclusivity and diverse learning styles.

Teaching style

Student Centered, Therapeutic, Participatory, and Collaborative. I used the TEACCH approach and methodology to teach my students on the spectrum (self-contained classroom). This approach focuses on the "culture of autism" and is based on cognitive-social learning theory. A core value in this approach is appreciating and valuing the unique strengths in every child.

My own education history

Master of Arts Degree from Teachers College/Columbia University in Social and Organizational Psychology from the State of New York. Master of Science Degree in Education with a dual certification in Elementary Education from Hunter College from the state of New York.

Additional biographical information

Licensed and Certified in Special Education and Childhood Education Grades 1-6.