Made For Me Literacy provides special education teachers with engaging, comprehensive reading units meticulously crafted with special learners in mind covering various subject areas, including basic reading, writing, math, science, and fine motor skills.
Check out these tools to help you create meaningful literacy experiences and work on reading comprehension with your students in special ed.
Nancy Young, a member of IDA, holds a Master’s of Education in Special Education with a focus on dyslexia. She has extensive experience and knowledge in
Comprehension of language in general can be very challenging for students in special education. Most of my students have been diagnosed with autism or another language based disability. As a result, understanding what others say to them, vocabulary and text comprehension is difficult. Here are 3 activities we do to help students understand language better. ... Read More about 3 Ways to Target Reading Comprehension In Special Education
A range of free printable SEN teaching resources used with Autistic pupils aged 4-18, literacy, numeracy, topic and themed resources.
How to plan for, modify, and implement successful Guided Reading in SPED. TIps and tricks with full lesson plan ideas at Mrs. D's Corner.
Resources, tips, and materials to help you, help children with autism
Structured Literacy is an approach to reading instruction that is explicit and systematic, with a focus on the structure of the English language.
Everybody needs a role model that shares similar struggles, even if they are fictional characters. Find our Top 5 books for dyslexics and their parents.
Kids' writing ideas from Pinterest, including paint chip synonyms, printable Boggle game, traffic signal transitions, and paper plate Venn diagram.
With my small group pull-out sessions limited to half-hour increments, I'm always looking for quick, engaging reading and writing activities to reinforce literacy skills. I used to think dice games were only for teaching math and probability, but I'm starting to discover that there are ENDLESS possibilities for using dice with literacy. Are you looking for a few ideas? Well... let's shake and roll! 3 Roll-a-Dice Activities for Reading & Writing My roll-a-dice resource collection continues to grow, but here are a few resources that I've added to my literacy toolbox that may be perfect for your students. 1. Roll-a-Story
With the passing of dyslexia laws in the state of New Jersey in 2014, there has been an increased focus on reading disabilities and dyslexia particularly in the area of effective assessment and remediation. More and more parents and health related professionals are looking to understand the components of effective dyslexia testing and who is
Hi Friends…. The past two weeks we have been working on Prefixes and Suffixes in our second-grade classroom! My kiddos were having such a good time brainstorming words with prefixes and then figuring out the meaning. They really had a strong grasp of the concept… I was pretty impressed. After our whole … Prefixes, Suffixes and a FREEBIE Just for YOU! Read More »
Jenga game cards are easily my favorite way to teach and reinforce basic math fact, phonics, or grammar practice.
This hub provides information about the tutoring company Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes. Lindamood-Bell's programs include Seeing Stars (word attack), Visualizing and Verbalizing (comprehension), and On Cloud Nine (math). Lindamood-Bell is an expensive yet effective program that often helps students increase many grade levels in reading or math comprehension in a short time.
Introducing Quadratic Factoring with Conspiracy Theory in Special Ed Algebra 2
Small Groups Rubric • Hold your students accountable for their work and behavior during small groups • EDITABLE cells to customize to your needs Goes great with these other small groups products: Guided Reading Observations Center Rotations Smart Notebook
How do you tell when to use a K at the end of a word or CK at the end of a word? You can use the Barton Spelling Milk Truck Rule. It really...
A blog about autism resources and support from a special ed teacher with first-hand experience.
Spelling words with ch or tch. This generalization states that when you hear the /ch/ sound at the end of a syllable and it is immediately preceded by
The activities below are available for free download, and are to be used in educational and/or private settings. They may not be used elsewhere or for other purposes (such as for profit) unless exp…
Structured Literacy is an approach to reading instruction that is explicit and systematic, with a focus on the structure of the English language.
If your kids are struggling with comprehension, metacognition or just "pretending" to read, this COMPREHENSION MEGA BUNDLE is going to make a big impact with your students! This Comprehension MEGA BUNDLE includes: Comprehension Questions to Use with ANY Text Metacognition - Real Reading Salad Reading is Thinking Visualizing: Movie in My Mind Making Connections While Reading ABC Schema Book You may use these lessons and activities with any text or chapter, multiple books, a specific genre, poetry, etc. The strategies and activities are very effective for all subject areas... even nonfiction and math. :) This resource also lends itself to encourage students to effectively work with partners. You will also find these strategies and lessons beneficial for RTI, struggling students, and to use for guided reading mini-lessons. Thank you for checking out my METACOGNITION ~ COMPREHENSION ~ MEGA BUNDLE!! Please contact me if you have any questions or concerns with this product. [email protected] Please visit my blog for additional learning activities and strategies: TeacherKarma.com Best Wishes! Jen [email protected]
How to teach the closed syllable plus all the closed syllable rules for struggling readers and spellers.
Teaching schwa vowels doesn't have to be tricky or confusing! These teaching tips for schwa sounds will really work for your students!
What types of accommodations can help students with dyslexia? Here are some classroom accommodations to talk over with your child’s school. You can even try these supports at home.
Do you need help understanding and teaching the Kindergarten Literacy Standards? Do you know how to teach the Reading Literature standard RL.K.1?
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Singular and Plural Possessive Nouns This Singular and Possessive Nouns book will be a great supplemental resource for students. This printable noun book includes activities to help students identify and develop their skills when learning about singular and possessive nouns. Please click on the preview for a more detailed description of this activity book. Please click on the links below to view additional resources: Adverbs Adjectives All About Me Perfect Punctuation Compound Words Rainbow Reading Comprehension Subjects and Predicates Thank you for stopping by my store!
Here is a special guest post from Karina Richland of PRIDE Learning Center! I'm certain you will find these practical tips for improving reading fluency just as helpful as I have! How
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Morphology and syntax are an integral part of linguistics. They are subdivisions of the study of languages and together with phonetics, semantics and phonology contribute to the understanding of how a language is formed. Morphology
Spelling words with ch or tch. This generalization states that when you hear the /ch/ sound at the end of a syllable and it is immediately preceded by
Visual cues often help our young readers learn phonics rules. These free r-controlled vowels can be posted in your classroom or within your small group intervention area. Enjoy! The R-Controlled Vowel Posters can be downloaded for FREE in my online Teachers Pay Teachers store.