Teaching Resources, Sensory Stories and SEND Information
Free Printable SEN Teaching Resources
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Please feel free to download and use these printable special education teaching resources (usually in powerpoint) that I have made for my students to use. Often these are designed to be used as part of a toolkit of thematic downloadable resources, printed and laminated (with Velcro) to use as folder tasks for TEACCH systems for Autistic learners. They can also be used as worksheets for literacy, numeracy, ASDAN evidence etc. Many use widget software symbols to support reluctant or pre-readers. I would always encourage you to share any free teaching resources we come across, feel free to share and lesson ideas or teaching tips that you have used in the comments section.
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This page has Free Transition Challenge and New Horizons evidence workbooks that you can use to evidence the work your learners have competed in their ASDAN modules.
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Literacy Resources
These preposition worksheets are based on colourful semantics. Language and Communication Commenting Board. This is a great simple literacy activity where the learners comment on the picture.
Download the Symbol supported sentence construction printable worksheets, students can circle the correct words, you could laminate and dry-wipe these or classic cutting and sticking. These are hopefully useful in planning a literacy lesson. They can easily be made interactive through adding pictures of the children.
Emoji Emotions Resources
Download the Emoji Emotions 3 worksheet bundle here. I used this as an activity to back up emotions work. I printed a lot of the emojis and hid them in a sensory tray. Once the student found one they could tick it off. Included in the bundle is a sheet of printable dominoes. Emotional education resources are so tricky to generalise but i hope these resources facilitate the teaching of emotions to some extent.
New Friends Worksheet
You can stick images of the child and their new friends and classmates onto this sheet. When I did this one child expressed concern about people already being friends.
You can use this to find specific text and images as you look through a paper (local or national). I.e Find a word beginning with “th” find an image of a person etc.
Some of these were worksheets designed around the education aspect of the PREVENT duty. Just general worksheets around the key religions in the UK. At this time I haven’t made up in-depth explanations of each religion. I hope you find these useful in promoting education of beliefs and religions.
Here is an awesome video bingo (well matching as everyone would win but feel free to delete some images to make a bingo) using a fire engine video from Kent Fire and rescue(Click here for youtube link). I love doing these and the students find them really engaging. The black and white page is if you have a student that prefers to match or won’t look at the screen (Click HERE for more). There is also a screenshot from the video used to make a build your own fire engine worksheet or cut and laminate as a jigsaw.
Student voice is essential in developing an online safety (e-safety) policy for SEND. The threats and specific challenges facing autistic children online is not an area that is well enough researched or understood. This communication board may help you find out how the students use the internet.
My most popular resource on TES resources. Here are some simple overwriting sheets to support Read Write Inc click on the speed sounds set you need. These are a faded font for easy overwriting.
One of the most popular free resources on TES is this overwriting number task sheet. Using a dotted font. You can laminate and reuse this as a daily task that facilitates numeracy skills and fine motor skills.
There are many more ASDAN Resources on the ASDAN page.
Click Here to Download Breakfast ASDAN worksheet – Students can create an English or continental breakfast, what makes this lesson even more effctive is if you can use this as a follow up to a practical teaching session to enable the learner to put the lesson in context.
This is a stranger danger/Safer stranger worksheet pack. Widgit symbol supported. Also contains a page for new teachers or carers. They should wear an ID badge etc. Includes the Makaton sign for a stranger and other vocabulary thats important to know.
This is a great teacher resource, here is a worksheet I have used a few times for ASDAN transition challenge. It involves making up a plate of what you would like for your Christmas dinner. Widgit symbols and images.
This is an example of a simple IEP (Individual Education Plan) for educators to use with students with additional needs. Does not include behaviour breakdown. For use with autism or learning difficulty
EU Referendum Bingo – Brexit Bingo!
Click the image below or here to download a widgit symbolled 10 card BREXIT bingo about this years referendum. Leave or Remain? I’ve tried to be balanced. EU Referendum Bingo for students to reflect on the BREXIT shambles.
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I hope this page has helped you prepare some teaching material and creating a lesson plan no matter what curriculum model you follow. Each pedagogical model or curricula designed for SEND learners is unique and often requires teaching resources to be adapted for each school, classroom or learner to engage with. The core of teaching and learning is, however, the passion of the teacher. I hope this page of resources for teachers helps you create an inclusive classroom with some engaging lesson plans, for more information about teaching strategies see this post. As well as the resources the learning environment is essential here are 5 ways to ensure every learner is able to engage.
All these resources are downloadable for free but if you click on these links I make a tiny bit of money to help with the hosting costs. I would especially value a facebook, twitter or Pinterest share.
WordUnited’s Free Resources Hub has 10s of free videos with many ideas for home learning and playing. You can also download 100s of printables from http://www.wordunited.com. No subscription is required and the resources are ideal for children in early years and primary school age.
WordUnited’s Free Resources Hub has 10s of free videos with many ideas for home learning and playing. You can also download 100s of printables from http://www.wordunited.com. No subscription is required and the resources are ideal for children in early years and primary school age.