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1st grade social studies literature circle activboard activities for special education
First Then Visual Schedules Token Boards and Rewards for Students
Do you need a visual schedule for a student in your classroom? Were you given a behavior plan that said to use First/Then visual strategies? If your answer is yes, then this resource is just what you need. I created these First/Then boards out of necessity for my own students. WHAT IS A FIRST-THEN BOARD?A 'first-then' board is a strategy that can be used before a potentially challenging situation occurs with a child. By using a visual schedule the student will know what he/she must do first be
Grades:
K - 4th
Also included in: Visual Schedules Token Boards and Calm Down Tools for SEL Bundle
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Craft and Activities
Are you looking for some fun activities to introduce Kindergarten and 1st Grade students to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr? I have developed this focus on how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Peacemaker. We talk about the difference between a Peacemaker and a Peacebreaker. Then, students write about how they can be a Peacemaker. There are several engaging activities in this mini unit for you.Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Craft Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Writing PromptsDr. Martin Luther King Jr. Peacemak
Grades:
PreK - 1st
Sneezy the Snowman Book Companion: Winter Book Companion
This book buddy provides a variety of activities, targeting multiple skills to accompany, Sneezy the Snowman. Skills Addressed:Comprehension Questions Cause and EffectDescribing SortingMaking Inferences- anchor chart and independent activity pageSequencingStory RetellFollowing Directions- interactive cookbook Just for fun: "Melted Sneezy" water bottle labels Download the preview to view all of the activities included! Customer Tips:How can I earn TPT credits to use on future purchases?• Please g
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PreK - 3rd
Basic Concepts Spring Speech Language Therapy Prepositions & Where Questions
Position concepts, following directions and answering Wh questions has never so much fun in speech therapy! A feed the animal activity your children will love. Feed the frog those pesky flies after answering questions and finding the cards named! Plenty more activities are included for multiple sessions of practice: dot marker activities, a flap activity, dough mat, game, a funny poem for listening to clues and a take-home booklet with a parent letter for carryover. ❤ Love speech and language fr
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PreK - 1st
If You Take A Mouse To School
Book companions make great speech therapy tools and this book by Laura Numeroff is a great book for your back to school lesson plans. Your students are sure to enjoy listening to all the fun things this little mouse does at school.
This packet was developed for preschool to 1st grade to utilize in speech therapy. It is 72 pages and targets sequencing, comprehension questions, vocabulary, basic concepts, and much more.
This packet is a companion to the book. You will need to purchase the book s
Grades:
PreK - 1st
Social Skills Narrative, a Story about Hitting (Autism/Special Education)
Social Skill Supports, a No hitting story that has been tried and tested with my students.Created to help a person in Special Ed understand how to behave or respond in a particular situation using a visual guide describing various social interactions, situations, behaviours, skills or concepts. The goal of this short story is to share social information and how to behave in certain instances. Read this book one to one or as a whole class and display poster to reinforce, combine with the suppor
Grades:
PreK - 2nd
Also included in: Social Skills - A BUNDLE OF STORIES for Autism/Special Needs
Boom Cards Social Skills Communication Conversation Bundle Elementary
Boom Cards for social skills are no print digital task cards that are interactive. Your students will love working on conversation skills in this format. In this bundle for elementary students, you will receive 4 sets of Boom Cards for teaching conversation skills! Check out the four video previews for each product on the product page. All decks in this bundle:are geared for K-4. audio directions,navigational arrows and/or home page,slides that teach the skill, andreal photographs, andtiers
Grades:
K - 4th
Sheep in a Jeep: Speech & Language Book Companion for Preschool/K
Sheep in the Jeep, by Nancy E. Shaw, is a favorite in my literature based speech and language circle time. The kids listen for the great rhyming words and yell out the words they hear. {SHEEP, JEEP, STEAP, WEEP!)
This literature unit is meant to accompany the use of the book during speech and language instruction for preschool and early elementary aged students.
The document is 25 pages in length and can be found in my TPT Store.
• Pages 3-7: Story Sequencing: Sequence the parts of the sto
Grades:
PreK - 2nd
Boom Cards Elementary Social Skills Autism Conversation Skills
Boom Cards are no print digital task cards that are interactive. This set for social skills requires your elementary students to pick a comment or question that will maintain the conversation. Your students will love them! You will receive a deck of 54 cards. The first few cards explain how to politely maintain a conversation with comments and sincere questions. Then, there are communication scenarios where students must identify which comment or question would maintain the conversation.
Grades:
K - 4th
Also included in: Boom Cards Social Skills Communication Conversation Bundle Elementary
Gestalt Language Adventures Bundle
This bundle includes 17 individual interactive stories, originally $3 each, but you get all 17 for $30! A $16 savings!!Current Themes:- Farm- Ocean- Space- Zoo- Park- Safari- Summer - Winter- Halloween- Fall- Pets- Circus- Dinosaurs- Valentines Day- Saint Patrick's Day- Pirates- Time for SchoolEach story is interactive and created with gestalt language processors in mind. Each page includes a drop down list of NLA stage 1 mitigable gestalt examples to help you model for your client / child.Super
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PreK - 3rd
We're Going on a Bear Hunt: Literacy, Language and Listening Book Companion
We're Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen is a wonderful book that tells the story of a family who goes on a bear hunt. They travel through all different landforms and weather, only to have the bear scare them back home! This literature unit is filled with seven different follow-up activities and games to target listening, language and literacy! Following reading, engage your students in activities targeting:
1. Sequencing with Pictures (which is also a great retelling tool!)
2. Comprehensi
Grades:
PreK - 2nd
Social Story Making Green & Red Choices (Editable) Book Special Education PCS
Our Making Green and Red Choices social story is designed to help children learn about making positive choices in a simple, engaging, and visual way that makes the information easier to understand.With this social story, children will learn how to identify positive and negative choices through the use of the colors green and red. Green choices are positive and helpful, while red choices are negative and potentially harmful. This distinction is easy for children to understand and remember, making
Grades:
PreK - 2nd
Also included in: Social Stories Growing Bundle (52 Books) Special Education Autism PCS
Fry Bread A Native American Family Story Activity Native American Heritage Month
Engage your students in a rigorous interactive read aloud with the book Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story by Kevin Noble Maillard. Students will love the read aloud and be able to apply their knowledge in the extension activities and writing prompts centered around the book's theme of family and cultural traditions.Get all current interactive read alouds H A L F off with the Interactive Read Aloud ENDLESS Bundle! This resource is included in the November Interactive Read Aloud Bundle!
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K - 2nd
Comprehension & Writing BUNDLE to supplement LLI: GREEN (Lessons 11-130)
Reach your struggling readers with this supplement to LLI. This resource includes comprehension questions and writing prompts for lessons 11-130 of the Green LLI kit (1st Edition). This is an easy-to-use resource that helps struggling readers build up comprehension and writing skills. 291 worksheets total!!! *This is not part of the LLI system and does NOT include any books. It is simply a resource I created to use along with the books to help my students with comprehension and writing.
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K - 2nd
Long Ago and Today | Then and Now Social Studies | Google Slides
Life Long Ago vs. Life Today This is a Google Slides file that covers "then and now" social studies lessons. These lessons teach about life long ago as it compares to life today. I have included 3 Google Slides Lessons that require no extra materials for students to complete, though some writing activities have a black & white print option as well. The 3 lessons could easily be stretched across more days as needed. Students will make comparisons between life long ago vs. today. The Google Sl
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Grades:
K - 2nd
THE COMPLETE SET OF VISUALS - FIRST THEN, SCHEDULE, TOKEN, CHOICE BOARDS!
THE COMPLETE SET OF VISUALS!With Boards: First - Then, First - Next - Last, Schedule, Token Board, Choice BoardThis packet contains popular and widely used gross motor related activities to provide those valuable visual cues for students in physical therapy, adaptive PE, as well as classroom, school, and home environments! Boxes with black dots are centered to make it easy to put on VELCRO dots. Visuals help students understand what is expected. Examples: Token Board ("You need 5 stars, you are
Grades:
PreK - 4th
Good Night, Gorilla: A Listening and Language Book Companion
Good Night, Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann is a GREAT children's book. It is nearly wordless so it provides many opportunities to elicit language! This literature unit is filled with six different follow-up activities! Following reading, engage your students in activities targeting:
1. Sequencing with Pictures (which is also a great retelling tool!)
2. Comprehension Questions with two (picture) answer choices
3. Following Directions- An activity containing directions from one step to two step direc
Grades:
PreK - 2nd
Five Green and Speckled Frogs Spring Speech and Language Therapy Activities
Add these 5 little speckled frogs activities to your spring speech therapy activities, small groups, and language centers, and watch how excited your students will be to participate! You'll cover basic concepts, wh questions, object function, verbs, articulation, literacy, and more in spring speech therapy and summer too. This fun nursery rhyme activity is perfect for your frog, bugs, and insect themes in speech therapy or your classroom.✅ Includes Both Print and digital options with Boom™ Cards
Grades:
PreK - 1st
Articulation Visuals and Cue Cards BUNDLE
COMBINED BUNDLE WITH VISUALS FOR BOTH OLDER AND YOUNGER STUDENTSThis bundle comes with both sets of my visuals for older and younger students. Do not buy if you already own one of the setsSet 1: Speech Sound Articulation Visual Cue Cards: Sound NamesEach card has a mouth/tongue placement visual, a sound name, visual for sound name, sound on or off symbol, written description of how to produce sound, and five circles to practice soundSounds Included:S, Z, CH, SH, J, ZH, K, T, L, G, F, V, P, B, W,
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PreK - 12th
Bear Stays Up For Christmas: Speech and Language Book Companion
Book Companion for Bear Stays Up For Christmas by Karma Wilson and Jane Chapman
You will need to purchase the book separately.
This 54 page activity pack is perfect for language therapy. The activities included are perfect for speech and language intervention, literacy circles and whole group activities.
Included in this pack:
Character Cards: (pages 4-6) Use while telling the story.
Links to the Story: (page 7) Have your students cut out the strips and place them into sequential order
Grades:
PreK - 2nd
Also included in: Book Club: Christmas Bundle One
The Snowy Day Mini Book Companion for Speech Therapy | DIGITAL + PRINTABLE
This speech therapy book companion for The Snowy Day is both digital and print and go! It's super low prep, easy to use, and comes with cute worksheets and visuals for your younger students ages preK-2.I’m a huge fan of literacy-based therapy, and classic books are my favorite! This resource is part of my mini book companions for classics product line. The Snowy Day is one that I love to pull out during the winter or anytime!This companion pack contains visual sentence strips to use alongside th
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Grades:
PreK - 2nd
FUN PHONICS Level 2 Cheat Sheets
These Fundations® Level 2 "Cheat Sheets" in PDF format can be printed or displayed on an Interactive Whiteboard for reference in your classroom.Related Products• FUN PHONICS Level 2 I Have...Who Has? Trick Word Game• FUN PHONICS Level 2 Keyword Alphabet Posters• FUN PHONICS Level 2 Letter Keyword Sound Large Flash Cards• FUN PHONICS Level 2 Take Home Trick Word Cards• FUN PHONICS Level 2 Trick Word CardsWILSON®, Wilson Reading System®, Fundations®, Just Words®, and Wilson Fluency® are trademark
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
Bundle of Errorless Learning Adapted Work Binders® (6 AWBs included!)
Errorless Learning Adapted Work Binders® | Errorless Learning sets students up for success and is a great option for students who need immediate positive feedback.Errorless activities allow a student to focus on the task and success of performing the task independently, and not so much choosing an incorrect answer. Errorless Learning also increases student participation and student confidence.Learn more about Errorless Learning in this blog post.What is included?• Shapes (12 shapes) • Colors (11
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PreK - 2nd
Also included in: Bundle of Errorless Learning Bundles | Over 200+ Activities Included
Following Rules at School (Editable) Social Story Book Special Education
Our Following Rules at School Social Story is designed to help children understand and navigate the rules and expectations at school.This social story about school rules uses a combination of easy-to-understand language and illustrations to help your child feel more prepared and confident about the rules they need to follow at school.It is a simple yet effective social story that mentions listening to the teacher, keeping hands and feet to self, raising hand to ask a question, using a quiet voic
Grades:
PreK - 1st
Also included in: Social Stories Growing Bundle (52 Books) Special Education Autism PCS
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Find Social Studies - History resources | TPT
Importance of learning social studies
Social studies offers valuable insights into history, geography, and much more. Social studies captivates students by providing them with perspectives from the past, present, and future, allowing them to understand history and navigate current events. It enables them to appreciate how previous generations have shaped their present reality. In essence, social studies opens their eyes to the vastness of life beyond their immediate surroundings.
Benefits of learning social studies
Learning social studies offers many benefits to students in terms of helping them develop a holistic understanding of the world. Namely, it helps them:
- Learn about the achievements, challenges, perspectives, traditions, and customs of different societies
- Evaluate information, analyze evidence, and make informed judgments about complex social, economic, and political issues
- Become active, responsible, and engaged citizens
- Comprehend global issues such as human rights, environmental sustainability, and economic disparities
By teaching social studies, teachers can help students develop critical thinking skills, foster civic engagement, and promote social awareness and responsibility.
Teaching with social studies resources
On TPT, social studies resources come in various formats, from worksheets to interactive notebooks to units. They can be used to enhance learning, assess a student’s mastery of social studies concepts, or to reteach a tricky topic. With plenty of TPT resources at your fingertips, teaching and learning social studies will be so much easier.
Discover printable and digital social studies resources
If you’re a teacher or parent looking for printable or digital social studies resources, TPT has an extensive array of instructional materials for every learning need, topic, or grade level. Whether you’re teaching students about America’s democratic process, the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., how to read maps, or World War II, we’ve got you covered.
Social studies resources on TPT offer informative lessons, engaging texts, intriguing facts, interactive puzzles, and enjoyable trivia games. These grade-specific resources ensure that all students can access age-appropriate materials that stimulate their minds and enhance their creative thinking abilities.
For instance, first graders can explore worksheets on senses and emotions, followed by a coloring page featuring Harriet Tubman. Older students can test their knowledge with quizzes on statistics and capital cities, then delve into the history of the Underground Railroad through an informational sheet or enjoy a word search focused on civil rights leaders. With such a wide variety of subjects and topics covered, our social studies pages provide endless opportunities for students to explore the world in captivating ways.
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There are many different types of history resources sold by Sellers on TPT. Some popular social studies lessons include U.S. history, world history, ancient history, geography, civics, and government.
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