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Monday, February 1, 2021

Reading activity

In this activity, the teacher provides the flash cards of specific word sounds and the list of the words. The student jins the sound, by reading it and matching it with the list of words.

Provide interactive visual schedule to students with autism spectrum disorder. Use laminated velcro cards to make it more engaging. This is an example of a schedule from a middle school autism classroom.

Money activity

Use real coins to teach money skills. Students with disabilities will be able to easily generalize the skill in the community. In this activity the student is matching the label with the correct money amount.

Vocabulary activity

Use different colors to break the word into its specific sounds. This activity helps students to learn how to read the difficult vocabulary words by joining specific sounds.

Vocabulary words practice assignment

Students read the specific word sounds, add the sounds, and read the whole word, by typing or writing ✍️ the words.

Vocabulary words

Use highlighter to highlight parts of the words helping the students focus on the specific sounds.

Sunday, January 31, 2021

Adding single digit numbers

In this activity, the student is learning to add single digit number. We used the laminated number cutouts with Velcro to choose the answer from. The numbers also had touch points and visual blocks to represent the number.

Use blocks as manipulative

Use blocks to teach counting. The manipulative needs to be based on student’s interest. Since this student’s favorite activity is playing with the blocks, the teacher used these blocks for teaching counting. Students with autism like to count teddy 🧸 bears/ gummy 🐻 bears, or Thomas the train 🚂 as manipulatives. Be creative and develop the worksheet based on students’ interest.

Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What do you see?

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see?

Go Away, Big Green Monster

Penny experiment to show the property of water

Penny experiment to show the property of water.

"Where is the snake?" writing activity

WHERE IS THE SNAKE ACTIVITY

This activity will help students build their vocabulary and language. Place the snake at different location in your classroom. Take pictures. Make a PowerPoint, and share the activity with students. Ask students to describe the picture by asking, "where is the snake?" Use different animals. In this activity the wooden snake was used. Since it was students classroom, they came with meaningful sentences. The target word was snake. Students made sentences like: The snake is on the laptop. The snake is coming out of the trash can. Probe students thinking, by asking them, as why is the snake coming out of the trash can.