Academic Resources for the Autism Classroom

Reading, writing and math in special education and autism classrooms can be a challenge. Find resources for teaching a variety of subjects across the ages. Great supplemental activities for homeschooling and virtual learning.
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Using Life Skills at the Grocery Store
This functional life skills activity is perfect for any special education environment. This pack includes activities aimed at teaching students practical life skills promoting independent living. Students will love this true image of grocery shopping, while they practice skills ranging from money counting and calculating discounts to using coupons and check writing skills. Try this differentiated way of teaching in your sped classroom today. #moneyskills #lifeskills #specialeducation
Learn how to build literacy with interactive books!
Functional interactive books can help build a variety of reading skills to build literacy and comprehension. I like combining them with the functional sight words and environmental print because they translate easily into the context of the students' real lives. Find out how you can use them in this post.
Using Life Skills at the Grocery Store
As part of the Grocery Store Activities for Functional Life Skills, this template makes a great file folder. It's also great for working on generalization. You can use this template for a file folder with the coupons in the set or from your own grocery store. #lifeskills #grocerystore #moneyskills #specialeducation #autismclassroomresources
Progress Monitoring Data Sheets That Make Your Life Easier
For a special education classroom, data sheets that make progress monitoring easy and efficient are critical. These sheets are a must have for every classroom. Self-graphing data sheets, rubrics, permanent product tools, and more. And they are all editable in PowerPoint to add your own information to the grids! Try them to set up your data collection systems today! #specialeducation #progressmonitoring #datacollection
How to Simplify Your Data Collection with 3 Easy Tools
Taking data in the classroom is both an art and a science. It's critical that we take it, but the instruction is even more critical. These are 3 tools that can help simplify data collection so it doesn't interfere with instruction. #datacollection #progressmonitoring #tamedatamonster #autismclassroom #autismdata
Progress Monitoring Data Sheets That Make Your Life Easier
For a special education classroom, data sheets that make progress monitoring easy and efficient are critical. These sheets are a must have for every classroom. Self-graphing data sheets, rubrics, permanent product tools, and more. And they are all editable in PowerPoint to add your own information to the grids! Try them to set up your data collection systems today! #specialeducation #progressmonitoring #datacollection
How to Simplify Your Data Collection with 3 Easy Tools
Taking data in the classroom is both an art and a science. It's critical that we take it, but the instruction is even more critical. These are 3 tools that can help simplify data collection so it doesn't interfere with instruction. #datacollection #progressmonitoring #tamedatamonster #autismclassroom #autismdata
Using Life Skills at the Grocery Store
This functional life skills activity is perfect for any special education environment. This pack includes activities aimed at teaching students practical life skills promoting independent living. Students will love this true image of grocery shopping, while they practice skills ranging from money counting and calculating discounts to using coupons and check writing skills. Try this differentiated way of teaching in your sped classroom today. #moneyskills #lifeskills #specialeducation
Teach Nutrition in an Engaging and Practical Way with Interactive Lessons
If you are teaching health and science in special education life skills classrooms, you are likely teaching good nutrition science. Grab engaging and meaningful ways to teach nutrition to high school or middle school in this post for ideas and tools to make it easier to teach about MyPlate, serving size, balancing food groups, sorting foods into food groups and more. There are ideas for all different levels of skills in this post for teaching nutrition to teens.
How to Effectively and Efficiently Teach Telling Time Hands-On
Teaching telling the time is easier for some students than others. If you are a special educator teaching life skills, sometimes it can be tough. Check out this blog post for tips and tools for teaching in a consistent, systematic fashion to help your students successfully tell time from analog and digital clocks. Find out why it's so important, skills to break it down, and resources, along with a free set of task cards, to help with instruction.
Fun Ways to Teach Students Real-Life Money Skills
Looking for fun ways to teach your students real-life money skills? Check out these engaging activities that go beyond just identifying coins and dollars. From restaurant math to setting up a classroom grocery store, these ideas will have your students excited about learning valuable money skills. Plus, grab some free resources to get started!
3 Engaging Ways to Teach the Value of Money
Struggling to teach your students the value of money? 💰 Check out this podcast episode where I share a strategy that can help them understand and use money effectively in real life situations. Plus, grab some free tools to implement in your classroom! 🎒✏
Interactive Books for Functional Sight Word Reading Comprehension in Life Skills
Functional interactive books can help build a variety of reading skills to build literacy and comprehension. I like combining them with the functional sight words and environmental print because they translate easily into the context of the students' real lives. Find out how you can use them in this post.
Using Life Skills at the Grocery Store
This functional life skills activity is perfect for any special education environment. This pack includes activities aimed at teaching students practical life skills promoting independent living. Students will love this true image of grocery shopping, while they practice skills ranging from money counting and calculating discounts to using coupons and check writing skills. Try this differentiated way of teaching in your sped classroom today. #moneyskills #lifeskills #specialeducation
Learn how to build literacy with interactive books!
Functional interactive books can help build a variety of reading skills to build literacy and comprehension. I like combining them with the functional sight words and environmental print because they translate easily into the context of the students' real lives. Find out how you can use them in this post.