Functional reading activities life skills

Functional reading is critical for our older students, but can be tough. In this post I outline the steps for instruction with tools to help.

Tips for using file folder activities in your special education classroom. File folder games are perfect for independent work stations!

These life skills Adapted Books are designed to directly teach which items belong in which room in a house. Each book is for a different room and then the Which Room? Book and sorting activity can be used to help students practice and generalize this skill in speech therapy or special education life skills. Click HERE to save 20% by purchasing this resource as part of the FULL Life Skills Curriculum Bundle (includes 9 Life Skills Resources) WHAT'S INCLUDED? Bedroom Adapted Book Bathroom…

Practicing life skills with file folders. I love these activities for my…

Cooking is an activity often used in the special education classroom. It's a great way to teach life skills, especially fuctional literacy skills. You can easily incorporate recipe reading activities in to your cooking activities. Read more about how my reading a recipe worksheets are low prep and an easy way to incorporate life skills.

Teaching vocabulary in special education is crucial! Teaching monthly vocabulary lessons in special education is a great way to cover important vocabulary. Use new vocabulary words during morning meetings, lunch, and other times throughout the day. Use a word wall in your special education classroom. You can use a functional life skills word wall too. Using file folders to teach vocabulary is another great one. Or having literacy centers and vocabulary games setup are helpful too.

It's challenging to create functional life skills classrooms that target all of the different reading, math and communication goals our students have. Peek inside to see what components you need to create a functional lesson that leads to life long skills. Click to read now!

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.

Functional money skills are an important aspect to independent living. Practicing functional math skills in the classroom allows your students to learn to identify money, practice using a budget and making financial decisions. Functional math skills allow your students to practice social skills while purchasing an item or making change. Practicing these skills in the special education classroom will also help your students prepare for community based instruction and develop important life…

Make sure your reading instruction is building functional literacy skills. If your students aren't great at generalizing skills across different settings, then you need to practice in a variety of life skills related situations. Click to read 10 different ways to target functional reading and life skills today!