If you have students working on basic reading skills, my reading skills file folders are a perfect solution! You can embed file folders into your content instruction or have students complete them with aid in small groups. Have IEP goals working on the same skills? Throw these into an independent work center and capture some IEP data! This pack comes with 15 different file folders! Word Sorts   There are 12 different word families sorted among six file folders. Students will sort words ending in the following families:  -at & -an, -ad & -ap, -en & et, -in & ..read more

Errorless learning is an evidence-based strategy that can be used in a variety of ways. This instructional strategy is designed to prevent incorrect responses. Errorless learning is a proven strategy effective in teaching discrimination skills. More simply, it allows students to build confidence and endurance during work. Errorless learning is one of my favorite tools to use!   Ways to Use Errorless Learning   I have two main ways I recommend using errorless learning in the classroom. I use it to help teach academic concepts and as independent work. Using errorless learning duri ..read more

If you are anything like me, you probably love and dread teaching in December. I always loved it because it was full of holidays and fun activities. I also dreaded it because it could be chaotic and a real drag at the same time. Holidays Around the World is the perfect solution. It will help you tie everything together in a stress-free way! I have three reasons why you should consider Holidays Around the World as your theme for December.    Celebrate Diversity in the Classroom   Our classrooms are filled with students from diverse backgrounds. Each has its own rich culture ..read more

The holidays are right around the corner, where in the world has this year gone?! Last year, I created a Holidays Around the World product that was geared towards special education classrooms. There are a ton of products on TpT that cover the topic of Holidays Around the World, but none of them were differentiated for our students. With many of these holidays happening SOON, I wanted to give you a look inside this bundle. *This post contains affiliate links. If you click and end up purchasing, you pay no extra cost, but I earn a small fee for referring you. Inside the bundle, you get the ..read more

When working with children with special needs, we often find that we need different types of sensory materials to help with sensory processing needs or classroom behaviors. I've put together a list of my top ten sensory favorites - all from Amazon! Many of these we used daily in my classroom! *This post contains affiliate links. If you click and end up purchasing, you pay no extra cost, but I earn a small fee for referring you. This Sensory Chew Necklace is perfect for both girls and boys and who doesn't love Lego blocks?! A few years ago, I had a student who had a sensory need to b ..read more

When I was teaching in a self-contained classroom, covering those tough Science & Social Studies topics were always so difficult for me. We had no adapted materials, and often the topics (like force & motion) were very difficult topics to teach to my students! I started creating full Science & Social Studies units with a variety of worksheets for this very reason - and just recently had the idea to make smaller adapted book + comprehension sets to briefly cover a topic without spending an entire month on it. For some of these topics, you might just want to introduce your studen ..read more

October is RIGHT around the corner and is right up there with Christmas as one of my favorite holidays in the classroom. There is so much fun stuff you can do with your students during the month of October. In this blog post you'll see some of my go-to Halloween themed resources, books, task boxes, and songs! *This post may contain affiliate links. This means that if you click and end up purchasing, you pay no extra cost, but I earn a small fee for referring you. If you've been around for a while, you know I LOVE file folders! When I was teaching, I switched out file folders constantly. I ..read more

As a former special education teacher, I always had a hard time finding worksheets that fit my students needs and that I could use with more than one student in my classroom. Often times, our students have very different goals, so purchasing a set of worksheets on JUST counting was great for one student, but didn't help me with the other seven. This is exactly why I created the monthly math packs a few years ago! When I created this set of fall themed math worksheets, I wanted to be sure to add in a variety of elementary math skills and differentiate some of the skills so that writers & ..read more

As special educators, it is SO important to set our students up for success throughout the total school environment. In early elementary years, this often includes visual schedules that we post up on the wall and have our students check when it's time to move from teacher time to speech, or any other type of 'switch' of task/environment. However, there is no 'one size fits all' for our students! Some students may require an object schedule, a word schedule, a real picture schedule, etc. What about those students who are in and out of your classroom but also require some type of schedule? Th ..read more

As a former special education teacher, I always had a hard time finding worksheets that fit my students needs and that I could use with more than one student in my classroom. Often times, our students have very different goals, so purchasing a set of worksheets on JUST letter matching was great for one student, but didn't help me with the other seven. This is exactly why I created the monthly ELA packs a few years ago! When I created this set of autumn themed ELA worksheets, I wanted to be sure to add in a variety of elementary language arts skills and differentiate some of the skills so th ..read more