What can we do for students who are deaf and hard-of-hearing? This guest post on Speechy Musings shares a few tips for language therapy for these students.

Space activities and centers (literacy, math, fine motor, stem, blocks, sensory, and more) for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten students.

We have one classroom in our program that accommodates the deaf students who attend. One of my good friends is the teacher in that class so we get the kids together often for fun activities. I think it's important to try to teach my kids some sign language so they can try to communicate with the others kids when they are together. My friend does "Sign Time" with a few of the classes during the year and last year it was even an elective the kids could sign up for. Today we learned how to finger spell our names doing this fun activity. My friend turned me on to the Enchanted Learning website where I was able to find the fingered letters. I saved each one to my computer and pasted four to a page so I would have the whole alphabet for later uses. After counting how many I would need of each, we made copies and cut them apart. I laid the letters out on the table and had the kids walk around finding each letter in their name. They colored and cut them out, then pasted them onto a piece of large white paper. My friend had a sheet of the regular alphabet available for them to color their letters and they cut those out and pasted them below their finger letters. Everyone had to go up to the front of the room and practice signing their names before we hung them up for all to see. This was actually a pretty long activity. From start to finish it took them about and hour and a little longer for a few of them. All in all, a great time was had by all!

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El Deafo by Cece Bell is a semi-autobiographical graphic novel about a girl's experience growing up deaf. This story is perfect for upper elementary students and shows the experience of one deaf girl. Cece says she wrote it because she wished others had a "how-to" guide for interacting with deaf students. This book guide has 29 pages and an answer key. COMPREHENSION • Cover Analysis • Pre Reading • Quizzes (7 - every 3 chapters) • Discussion Questions: Ch 1-10 • Discussion Questions: Ch 11-21 • Cause and Effect (4 - every 5 chapters) • Who/What/When/Where • Themes • Book Review VOCABULARY • Vocabulary List • Vocabulary Worksheet (blank) CHARACTERS • Traits of Cece, Laura Martha, Ginny (1 page each) • Cece and You • Cece and El Deafo • Martha and Laura ACTIVITIES • ASL Alphabet Chart

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Are you looking for an effective and engaging ASL sight word resource to bring your classroom to life? Look no further than our English to ASL Word Order Worksheets! Not only are they a great tool for Deaf/Hard of Hearing students who use ASL and English, but they can also be used in regular education classrooms. The worksheets perfectly bridge the gap between written English and ASL grammar. Each pre-primer sight word sheet has three opportunities for students to practice using SVO (Subject Verb Object) and topic-comment structures. After reading each written English sentence, students use ASL visuals to sign the words. Then, they are tasked with translating the written English sentence into ASL sentence structure. Our worksheets are the perfect resource for bringing American Sign Language (ASL) into your classroom. They’re a great source of enrichment, usable for independent work, center work, and more.  Pre-Primer Sight Words Included and, away, big, can, come, down, find, for, funny, go, help, here, I, in, jump, little, look, make, me, my, not, one, play, see, three, two, up, we, where, you What teachers are saying...  ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "Great resource. It is hard finding resources for my student that uses ASL, This was perfect."

Here are some fun ways to teach rhyming in Pre-K. Nursery Rhymes We recite traditional nursery rhymes while doing movements that correspond with them. The

Distance learning can be very overwhelming because it's something new for our little learners. They have traded in a brightly-colored classroom for a computer screen as a platform to interact with their teacher and classmates. As an educator, there is new technology to learn, and how do you even teach your students over video? It can be super overwhelming and stressful, I know. But the worst part is that it looks like this is going to last for the rest of the school year.

This page has a lot of free Community helper crafts for kids,parents and preschool teachers.

Our community theme is one of my favorites because there are so many fun things we can do. I could probably spend a month on this theme exploring lots of jobs, places and community helpers. Here were our plans for our community theme: And here are the details for each activity: Making Inferences: Madelynn loves […]

Before most food companies began removing hydrogenated oils from foods, Dr. Katz (from the Yale University School of Medicine) taught our family it was something to avoid. His Nutrition Detectives …

How to teach sequencing skills using cards and foldable booklets. Sequencing activities to teach young children how to sequence.

FREE Editable Name Cards perfect to use all over the classroom to help preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten kiddos learn their names.

These CVC rhyming clip cards will help your kids see and hear rhymes in simple CVC words. Kids love clipping clothespins on the matching words, and it even gives them a little bit of fine motor

Do you teach a Community Helpers Preschool or Kindergarten Unit? You will LOVE this fun set of pretend play learning centers and no prep worksheets.

Our community theme is one of my favorites because there are so many fun things we can do. I could probably spend a month on this theme exploring lots of jobs, places and community helpers. Here were our plans for our community theme: And here are the details for each activity: Making Inferences: Madelynn loves […]

Space activities and centers (literacy, math, fine motor, stem, blocks, sensory, and more) for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten students.

A fun STEM activity for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten to build a bridge over a river; Pre-K STEM exploration and problem-solving

Guest Post by Rebekah Patel One way I build literacy skills with my preschool daughter is to dedicate time to journal writing. Our journal time is inspired by what I learned when I facilitated Lucy Calkin’s Writing Workshop with my former students. My daughter is a pre-writer because she writes only a few words and no sentences, […]

Download patterns matching worksheets for preschool and kindergarten class. Link to free printable included.

If you're just starting out as a new Pre-K teacher, here are some practical ideas, printables, lessons for beginning the school year in Pre-K or

Brighten up and differentiate your classroom decor with this American Sign Language (ASL) alphabet line that can be used as so much more! How can I use this resource in my classroom? - Hang the posters above your whiteboard as your alphabet line. - Resize the posters to use as flashcards. - Use the posters as your word wall alphabet. - Resize, print 2 sets, and use as a matching game. - ...and so much more! The possibilities are endless!    Connect with me: • Newsletter • Blog • Facebook • Instagram • Pinterest • Don't forget about the green ★ to follow my store to get notifications of new resources and freebies! Thanks for Looking and Happy Teaching!

Sensory activities are especially important for deaf children to help them to develop on their hearing as well as all the other senses.

This week ended up being more of a ‘spur of the moment’ unit after Kaleb saw some clip art on my computer and ‘helped’ me put together printables for him

Community Helpers activities and centers for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten. Plus FREE community signs & fire finger painting printable.

This five senses activity incorporates sorting mats for tons of fun! Add it to any STEM or science center!

Looking for fun space theme preschool Activities for kids? Check out these 16 Hands-On space Learning Activities and Crafts for Preschool or Kindergarten.

Easy, hands-on positional words activities for your preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten classroom. Make learning prepositions fun!

Wonderful fiction and nonfiction sign language books that can be used by people from all backgrounds and ages to learn about ASL and the Deaf community.

Paths to Literacy Tracking Activities for Pre-Braille Learners. For teachers, families, and others interested in literacy for children and youth with visual impairments

A short quiz for Deaf Studies class or advance ASL class that can be used as a pre and post assessment on Deaf history. Comes with answer key. Please leave ratings and feedback! Thank you for downloading.

Search the picture for the community helpers and their equipment. Color them in when you find them!

Which Social Emotional Skills to Teach Episode Summary Have you ever wondered… which social emotional skills should I be guiding and teaching my p...

Paths to Literacy Bridging the Gap: Pre-Braille to Braille Reader. For teachers, families, and others interested in literacy for children and youth with visual impairments

Do your kiddos like bugs? Right now my daughter is not a fan of ants. Every time a storm hits our house, those little critters always find a safe home in my kids' bathroom. Always. Let me tell you, it is no fun having to kill ants while the kids brush their teeth. And while my

I hope everyone has gotten back into the routine of school. My kiddos are working hard each day to remember our expectations and daily routines, as well as learning lots of new skills. We started our phonics skills progression two weeks ago. We focused on short a the first week and then short a word families the next week. Each new vowel I am making an anchor poster to display in the room. The kiddos came up with all of the words and then I added the pictures. Anchor charts are such a great visual for our kiddos to remember all the skills they learn each year. Last week I let the firsties make their own anchor charts using our short a word families. They worked in groups to come up with words for their posters and then added pictures to match. They really enjoyed getting to learn these word families in a fun and interactive way! Our next chart focused on text-to-self connections. I borrowed some ideas from my Pinterest board of anchor charts and helped the firsties learn how to connect what they are reading to themselves. My class is doing Whole Brain Teaching this year, so we "Mirrored and echoed" that a text to self connection is when I connect a text to something I've done, something I've felt or something that's happened." My kiddos love earning the points from the Whole Brain system. I would encourage all teachers to look into this fun way of learning. Look out for another post centered on WBT. I changed up our "Me on the Map" unit activity this year, and with the help of some examples from Pinterest I created this one page flip chart activity! My kiddos loved getting to find their place on the map and draw them holding the world! We also learned about the community we live in and who all helps out. I passed out these cute photos of community helpers and let my firsties discuss what each person did to help our community. We then recorded our thoughts and added some more helpers that were not pictured! Check back soon for our short i anchor chart and tips for Whole Brain Teaching! ~Miss A

Improving Following Directions with Getting Dressed for Kids, plus a free visual cue card printable to use as a visual schedule or as dresser labels.