Back to School Pack the Backpack Supplies Adapted Book and Craft Bundle SPED

This Pack the Backpack Back to School Adapted Book and Craft Bundle for autism and special education will be a great addition to the beginning of your school year.

Students will practice identifying colors, quantity, and size (big/small, thick/thin, short/ long.)

Use this activity as a whole group or individually. You can repeat both the book and craft several times and encourage tons of communication with the sentence prompts included.

Adapted Book

This Pack the Backpack Back to School adapted book for Autism and Special Education is an interactive way to practice identifying colors, numbers, size, and basic concepts using repetitive text.

Students choose the color, quantity, and size (big/small, tall/short, thick/thin) of common school supplies. Students will put the supply they chose into the backpack. After choosing each supply, students will fill in a sentence by choosing the correct icon describing the school supply by color, size, or quantity.

For example: "I have purple scissors in my backpack.
"I have 2 paintbrushes in my backpack.

"I have a big bottle of glue in my backpack."

This book can be used over and over individually or as a small group activity.

Visuals are included in the sentences to help identify words while reading the sentence aloud.

Included:

-cover page

-4 backpack colors

-11 book pages with fill in the blank sentences and visuals

-school supply choices

- choice icons with pictures

Craft and Communication Activity

This Pack the Backpack Back to School Craft and Communication activity for Autism and Special Education is an interactive way to practice identifying colors, numbers, size, and basic concepts using repetitive text.

Students choose the color and cut out a backpack and pictures of common school supplies. Students will put the supply they chose into their backpack. After choosing each supply, students will fill in a sentence using a sentence strip prompt to say the type of supply they have in their backpack. An additional sentence strip prompt is included to talk about the color of the supplies as well.

For example: "I have a pencil in my backpack." "My pencil is red."

This activity can be used individually or as a whole group. The sentence strip prompts can be used as a single page or in a file folder format.

This activity can be used over and over individually or as a small group activity.

Included:

-backpack coloring page

-school supply coloring page

-"in my backpack" prompt strip with icon choices

-My supply is (color) prompts strip with icon choices