Special education reading activities

Have you been struggling to find a way to engage all of your students in writing activities? These daily writing journals are the perfect solution. Today I am sharing how to prep and organize these daily writing journals for your special education students. I talk about how to color code the journals along with how to pick the right level for your students. These writing prompts are great for writing time, morning work, and independent work stations. Learn how to prep them today!

Creating adapted books is a lot of work. I found this wonderful website with over 400 free printable adapted books you can download. Read more...

If you use adapted books in your special education classroom, it’s time to join the Adapted Book Club. The Adapted Book Club is a monthly or yearly membership that gives you access to over 1,000 different adapted books for every month, season, holiday, and topic you might need for your special education student. Each book also comes with 2 levels to easily differentiate for your special needs students, along with a comprehension test to assess reading comprehension skills.

These sight word activities are so easy to prepare! You can use them for preschool, kindergarten, and first grade -and even older students! I can see how many of these would work for kids in special education, too. #sightwords #teachingreading

In all my years teaching in a self contained special education classroom, the reading curriculum offered was either a fluency program or A-Z reading levels. Both are great to help children learn HOW to read the words, but what about the comprehension skills that go along with reading fluently? There's a yearly reading comprehension bundle, monthly units, or grab a Characters & Settings freebie when you join my mailing list! Teacher resources for ELA for the special needs classroom.

In order to develop life long and functional skills, students need to be able to read in different situations. Use this list of 10 ideas to plan your functional reading activities and develop critical skills. Click to read now.

As a special education teacher, it can be a lot of work to manage a large caseload of students with different IEP goals. Enter IEP goal bins: my favorite way to manage IEP goal work in my secondary special education classroom. This organizational system keeps me sane and allows me to target all my students’ varying levels and IEP goals while also collecting data on my students’ IEP goals. Take a look inside my IEP goal bins and learn how to manage IEP goals in special education here.

Special education teachers and regular education teachers can use these websites to help students on all levels! Great for intervention supports, behavior plans, understanding disabilities, progress monitoring, developing lesson plans, and more. #pathway2success #specialeducation

Do your students struggle to show that they are able to comprehend what they have read? Being able to demonstrate comprehension is a vital life skill. Here is how we target reading comprehension in my self-contained special education classroom. Many of my students have language based disabilities. The more words (spoken or written), the more […]

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