The student used to match all the letters in his first and last name, but we were able to backwards fade out the letters, so he is now spelling his name mostly on his own.
Matching Days of the week and months of the year.
Fluency Timing. This student is just beginning to say a few words. These are the words he says most often (most are his preferred items). We set the timer for 30 seconds, and he tries to label as many pictures as he can.
The student matches the season, then pulls down the current season and places it in the blank box.
Here, the student sorts pictures of sunny weather vs. rainy weather. This can be difficult for some students even at the beginner level. Too make this simpler, you can have the students match the pictures in each category instead of sort them.
Hope these binder pictures gave you some good ideas. My kids complete them every day and for some reason, don't seem to get sick of them. We do, however, change them throughout the year as students master a page or require additional/more challenging work. I store all my extra pages in a big binder, so I can easily switch up the worksheets when needed.
I'm constantly thinking of things to add to our calendar books and I have Boardmaker so I will be adding all of these ideas to my very long to do list!
ReplyDeleteThat's Great! My list keeps getting longer and longer too! There are just so many things to cover!
DeleteI just love your blog! I have been using your schedule and set up as almost a bible. I was just hired into an autism room with three kindergarten students who are non-verbal and in the moderate/severe range, and two second graders and a fourth grader who are minimally verbal and are in the moderate range. I have minimal resources right now as the teacher before me took all of her things. Do you plan on posting the morning work binders to your store? I would buy them by the truckload since I am now so behind in having work to do for my students.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for this blog!
It is so nice to hear that you are finding my resources useful. I will definitely try and post more morning binder work soon! Thanks for reading and good luck with your school year!
DeleteHi! I just love your blog. This is my second year teaching a self-contained class with students with autism. I have been desperately trying to think of some new ideas for our circle time books. I just had a quick question.... do you have your students complete these books all together and at the same time? I know they are at different levels, but have the students complete say their math page at the same time as all the other students? I am trying to think of some new ideas, but I like to keep our circle time where everyone is on the same page at the same time... I was just wondering how you have your circle time laid out..
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Thanks so much for the compliment and for reading! Check out this post...this is how I run my morning group:
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Basically, I start with going over everything on the board as a group. I have one student come up to help with each part. Then, each student completes their individualized binder on their own. That way, even if they are not paying attention during the group part, they are still held accountable for the material (at their adapted level). Then, when they finish their binders, they have to stay at their desks until it is time to rotate. I keep puzzles, books, tracing workbooks, etc. available just in case someone struggles to stay at their desk without busy hands. I do have 2 students who just can't wait at their desks, so they transition to their next station and I set them up with independent work there until the adult is able to join them. Hope that helps!
I saw somewhere that the pictures are from board maker but what do you use to make the pages themselves. I have just been hired for a new self contained room and am starting from scratch!
ReplyDeleteI used Boardmaker to make the pages as well. If you don't have boardmaker, you could do the same thing in PowerPoint (you would just need to find images somewhere) or see if your school provides a subscription to Unique/News-2-u/Symbolstix. You can use Symbolstix for images as well as to create pages.
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