Square ADAPTED Book | Cloze Notes | Special Education | Shapes | ELA

Sally the Square is so excited to teach your students about squares! This ADAPTED Sally the Square book is a great option for students who are learning to identify two-dimensional shapes. Sally the Square shares a lot of different things with readers. For example, the number of sides and vertices she has, that she comes in many sizes and color, and the real-world objects that she looks like.

Suggested uses include, but are not limited to:

• Cut and paste to identify the squares. Pages 1-21 need to be printed single-sided or double-sided on the short edge. Students will practice their fine-motor skills by independently cutting out the rectangles and numbers on Pages 22-23 and pasting them onto the various pages.

• Interact with Velcro-based moveable pieces to identify the squares. Pages 1-21 need to be printed single-sided or double-sided on the short edge and then, laminated and made into a spiral bound book. Place Velcro on the squares and numbers on the following pages: 2-7, 9, 13, and 17. Velcro also needs to be placed on the back of the rectangles and pictures on Pages 22-23 after cutting them out. Students can Velcro the squares and numbers to the pages as appropriate.

• Have students listen to a read aloud of the book and then, engage them in a discussion. This might look like orally asking them comprehension questions (e.g., "How many sides does a square have?") and having them respond using their mode of communication, or coming up with other examples of real-world objects that looks like squares.

To ensure students have retained the information that Sally the Square shared about squares, have them complete one of the many scaffolded notes options as described below. All notes were created using the cloze method.

• Fill-in-the-Blank (Option 1): Students will fill-in-the-blanks by attaching Velcro-based moveable pieces to identify squares and numbers and recognize real-world objects shaped like squares.

• Fill-in-the-Blank (Option 2): Students will fill-in-the blanks by tracing the correct numbers and words independently or with support (e.g., hand-over-hand technique).

• Fill-in-the-Blank (Option 3): Students will fill-in-the blanks with the correct numbers and words using their mode of communication (e.g., writing, oral identification, AAC device).

• Matching (Option 1): Students will match each sentence with its correct picture by tracing the line.

• Matching (Option 2): Students will match each sentence with its correct picture by drawing a line.

This resource is aligned with the following Florida Kindergarten Access Points Math B.E.S.T. Standard:

MA.K.GR.1.AP.1

Identify two- and three-dimensional figures regardless of their size. Figures are limited to circles, triangles, rectangles, squares, spheres, cubes, cones and cylinders.