FREE SPECIAL EDUCATION CHARTS/ FORMS:
Make your inputs in this IEP At-A-Glance Form brief but include enough information to assure that the IEP is being followed. This is an editable word document that you can modify based from the needs of your student. You may copy the goals and adaptations from the IEP and staple it to this if you wish. You may hand carry it to the regular education teacher and explain to her the purpose of this document.
When I share this document with a regular education teacher, I explain to him/ her that:
- this is a confidential document. This is not to be left in the desk; it must be kept in a safe, confidential location.
- if he/ she needs more information to get in touch with me.
- it is very important that IEP’s are followed for every student who has one.
SPED Inclusion Specialized Instruction Service Hours Chart. Need help in remembering the services needed for each student in your caseload? Use this editable chart to record the specialized instruction number of hours and keep track of your special needs students in the following environment:
1. Cotaught classes are taught by both a general educator and a special educator. The student with an IEP is receiving instruction in the general education environment. Hours can be appropriately documented as special education service hours on the IEP given the consistent direct instruction and support provided by special education staff.
2. Supported classes are taught by a general educator with support from a special education paraeducator. The student with an IEP is receiving instruction in the general education environment and hours can be appropriately documented as special education service hours on the IEP given the consistent direct instruction and support provided by special education staff.
1. Cotaught classes are taught by both a general educator and a special educator. The student with an IEP is receiving instruction in the general education environment. Hours can be appropriately documented as special education service hours on the IEP given the consistent direct instruction and support provided by special education staff.
2. Supported classes are taught by a general educator with support from a special education paraeducator. The student with an IEP is receiving instruction in the general education environment and hours can be appropriately documented as special education service hours on the IEP given the consistent direct instruction and support provided by special education staff.
•Analyze data in a series of simple steps
•Use student work for strategic or intensive instruction
•Explicitly decide when to “"re-do","review", or "re-teach"
•Facilitate grade level or subject area group discussions of data
•Make the ongoing use of data part of the school’s culture
FREE MNEMONICS FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION:
Printable Mnemonics: Coordinating Conjunctions
Do you know of an easy way to help our students remember these coordinating conjunctions? You can use the acronym FANBOYS to help them remember the coordinating conjunctions. Print this and post on Literacy Center for visual aid after explaining to them how this is used.
FREE SPECIAL EDUCATION DIFFERENTIATED LESSONS and OTHER RESOURCES:
Statue of Liberty: Practice Writing RACE Strategy
FREEBIE! This is a writing practice for daily warm up/ journal reflection activity which encourages the student to write opinion pieces on topic or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information. It focuses on the first writing Common Core State Standard which helps the student introduce a topic or text clearly, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure in which related ideas are grouped to support the writer's purpose. With the use of RACE strategy, it also helps to provide reasons that are supported by facts and details and provide a strong concluding statement.
Modifications for exceptional needs students in a self-contained or inclusive setting:
- Enlarged text
- Modified (shortened/simplified) text
- Graphic organizer
- Bolded/highlighted key words
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Winter Holidays Tic Tac Toe
Love using Choice boards? Here's a FREEBIE that contains a variety of activities about the winter/ holidays. Students can choose one or several activities to complete as they learn a skill or develop a product. Choice boards can be edited (word document) so that you can tailor it based from your needs and of your students!Okay, admit it. The winter holidays have some of the most fun and interesting words in the English language. You can hardly say them without a smile coming to your face. While in class we usually choose 3 activities in a row for spelling, I would encourage our students at home to do a “black out” for a reward!! I also included an easy grading rubric, have fun!!
Build a Connection
With this activity, students will surely have fun while connecting their reading to their life experiences, other books they have read or listened to, and events and issues around them. You can make copies of the reproducible on card stock to create task cards. Model each type of connection before assigning it as center work. Assign, or have students chose, one type of connection from the chart (text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world). Students choose a sentence
stem listed for that connection they've chosen and use it to help them write a connection. Please let me know how this is helpful to you!
Communism in Eastern Europe
Talking about rigor? Yep, this is a lesson presentation of Communism in Eastern Europe which was created for special needs students (below grade level learners) who are mainstreamed in the general education setting. By the end of the lesson; students will identify the 3 causes of the downfall of communism in Eastern Europe and explain the effects of communism to Eastern Europeans in 3 sentences by completing a graphic organizer. Compare & contrast Mao of China and Stalin of Eastern Europe. Graphic organizers, colorful visuals, seamless transitions...this lesson has it all!
Differentiated Project Menu
Target our students diverse interests! I created this Differentiated Project Menu to target the unique needs of my students in my self-contained class. The menus in this project rubric allow students to submit a free choice as a product. This free choice is a product of their choosing that addresses the content being studied and shows what the student has learned about the topic. Modify the Differentiated Project Menu, project description and student contract form based from your curriculum, this is an editable word document aligned to Common Core Standards!
Lesson on Writing Captions
This is a lesson presentation about Writing Captions which was created for special needs students (below grade level learners) who are mainstreamed in the general education setting. By the end of the lesson, students will select three landmarks in western Europe and write three captions explaining the significance of the landmark. Complete with vivid photos of great examples of captions, graphic organizers, seamless transitions, highlighted main points...students will get hooked to this lesson!
Retelling Cube for Stories
The purpose of this activity is for the students to retell the central elements of a story (story structure). Glue the cube options as shown in the activity sheet in a cube. Before asking students to work on the activity, model using the picture-cued prompts to use the six question cards to guide a narrative summary:
- Who is the main character?
- Where does the story take place?
- What does the character want? What is his or her goal?
- What is the problem?
- What is the solution?
- How does the story end?
Short Quiz on Genre
With a graphic organizer and highlighted words, students will not find this quiz gruesome!
Given ten (10) questions, students will identify various genres of fiction from the word bank based on their given characteristics by writing the answer inside the box. I created & used this assessment with a rubric to monitor my students' (below grade level learners) progress based from the goals in the IEP and the CCSS. Travel Brochure Lesson: Europe
rates research skills and detailed summaries. Have fun with the kids!
What is a Landmark?
This is a fun lesson presentation of different landmarks in Europe which was created for special needs students who are mainstreamed in the general education setting. By the end of the lesson; students will define a landmark; and explain how the geographical; historical; and cultural landmark of a countries inspire tourism by creating a postcard. Washington Monument: Practice Writing RACE Strategy
FREEBIE! This is a writing practice for daily warm up/ journal reflection activity which encourages the student to write opinion pieces on topic or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information. It focuses on the first writing Common Core State Standard which helps the student introduce a topic or text clearly, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure in which related ideas are grouped to support the writer's purpose. With the use of RACE strategy, it also helps to provide reasons that are supported by facts and details and provide a strong concluding statement.
Modifications for exceptional needs students in a self-contained or inclusive setting:
- Enlarged text
- Modified (shortened/simplified) text
- Graphic organizer
- Bolded/highlighted key words
Grab it now!!
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