Texas Center for Learning Disabilities
Teacher Templates
Letter by letter, sound by sound, monitor the growth of your emergent readers with these assessment templates. Adaptable to the needs of individual students, these one-on-one assessments focus on children's ability to identify letters...
Curated OER
Multiplication: Bugs Can Multiply, So Can I!
Develop multiplication skills with your class. Youngsters will visualize multiplication as repeated addition. Then they will create a multiplication bug book and discover arrays as a strategy for multiplication problem solving....
Texas Center for Learning Disabilities
Chapter 8 Teacher Guide and Student Log
As part of their reading of Tony Johnston's Any Small Goodness: A Novel of the Barrio, study teams develop Level 1, Right There and Level 2, Putting it Together questions for the eighth chapter of the novel.
Texas Center for Learning Disabilities
Chapter 8 Teacher Guide and Student Log
Designed to improve the reading comprehension of learners with special needs, this packet of intervention materials is intended to be used with the eighth chapter of Iqbal, Francesco D’Adamo’s novel about child labor.
Texas Center for Learning Disabilities
Chapter 7 Teacher Guide and Student Log
Chapter 7 of Francesco D’Adamo’s, Iqbal, a novel about child labor, is the core text in a packet designed as intervention materials for the special education classroom but appropriate for any reader of this gripping tale.
Texas Center for Learning Disabilities
Chapter 6 Teacher Guide and Student Log
Is work that is safe for adults also safe for children? That is the question class members consider as they continue their reading of Francesco D’Adamo’s, Iqbal, a novel about child labor. Following the routines established in previous...
Texas Center for Learning Disabilities
Chapter 5 Teacher Guide and Student Log
As part of their reading of the fifth chapter of Francesco D’Adamo’s historical novel, Iqbal, class members work in pairs to create Level 1 and Level 2 questions, engage in prediction activities, and use a Frayer Model worksheet to...
Texas Center for Learning Disabilities
Chapter 1 Teacher Guide and Student Log
The first chapter of Iqbal, Francesco D'Adamo's coming-of-age novel set in Pakistan, is the core text for this 22-page packet of intervention materials designed to improve the reading comprehension of learners with special needs.
Texas Center for Learning Disabilities
Chapter 9 Teacher Guide and Student Log
Intended to be used with the last chapter of Tony Johnston's Any Small Goodness: A Novel of the Barrio, this packet of intervention materials is designed to improve the reading comprehension of learners with special needs.
Texas Center for Learning Disabilities
Chapter 11 Teacher Guide and Student Log
As part of their study of the subject of child labor and child abuse introduced by Francesco D’Adamo’s novel, Iqbal, class members examine two extended reading passages about individuals who champion the rights of kids.
Texas Center for Learning Disabilities
Chapter 15 Teacher Guide and Student Log
Following the routines established in the initial lessons in this series that uses Iqbal as a core text, kids complete their reading of Francesco D'Adamo's novel about child labor.
Texas Center for Learning Disabilities
Chapter 9 Teacher Guide and Student Log
Iqbal, Francesco D’Adamo’s historical novel about child labor, is the core text for a series of resources that investigate the conditions under which many children are forced to work. Kids read and answer comprehension questions about...
Curated OER
Multiplying Integers
Seventh and eighth graders solve math problems where they multiply positive and negative integers. In this multiplication lesson plan, learners use slate boards to complete problems. The step-by-step plan tells you what to write and say...
Perkins School for the Blind
What Would You Do If...?
What would you do if...? That's a great question, and, when posed to learners with visual impairments, a question that can foster concept development and speaking and problem-solving skills that relate to real-life situations. The...
Perkins School for the Blind
Mail Delivery
Teaching job skills to your learners with special needs before they enter the workforce is a great way to ensure that they will gain employment. For this lesson, your students will become the school's very own mail or delivery people....
Perkins School for the Blind
Left Versus Right
When you can't see, it is extremely important to be able to reorient yourself. Learners with visual impairments work though an activity to build spacial awareness based on moving left and right. A marker (bracelet, bell, or weight) is...
Perkins School for the Blind
Counting Book
Here is a wonderful way to teach children with visual impairments how to count and build number recognition skills. Included, you will find a set of instructions on how to create a counting book from card stock, jump rings, and cotton...
Perkins School for the Blind
Packaging Snacks
Have your learners with special needs practice cooperative work skills, teamwork, and packaging. The kids will form an assembly line. Each pupil will add an item to a paper bag and then hand it off to the next person until the bag is...
Perkins School for the Blind
Bagging Groceries
Bagging groceries is a skill that can help learners with visual impairments understand organizing, problem solving, and weight discrimination. In addition, it is also a wonderful job skill. Help learners as they determine how to bag...
Perkins School for the Blind
Matching Like Objects
Same and different, sorting, and tactile discrimination are what's on the agenda for today. The class practices sorting objects and attempts to determine which objects are the same and different and why. The purpose is to increase...
Perkins School for the Blind
Stuff, Seal and Stamp Mail
Have your class practice functional skills that can be applied to a wide variety of job opportunities. They will use a folding jig to help them fold, stuff, seal, stamp, and mail letters. Students with visual impairments will build...
Perkins School for the Blind
Initial Consonant Activity
Bingo is a super fun game and can be used to reinforce a vast number of recognition skills. These bingo cards are prepared by constructing nine squares, each delineated with raised Wikki Stix or gluedyarn and containing a braille...
Perkins School for the Blind
Put the Shoe on Your Foot
Promote clothing identification, body part identification, and dressing skills acquisition with a fun and lively game. Each child takes turns grabbing a clothing item from the central clothing box. As he puts the item on, he sings, "Put...
Perkins School for the Blind
Circle Time
Oftentimes children or teens with one or more disability are reluctant to participate in whole-group activities. Foster good participation, verbal expression, and social skills through daily circle time activities. Each day you and your...