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Free preschool social studies resources for special education
*BUNDLE* Fine Motor & Visual Motor • JAN-DEC Color, Cut, Glue, Write
FINAL 12 month product: 12 months x 60 pages = 720 pages total$6 each monthly packet x 12 = $72 value! JAN - DEC • Fine Motor Activity Packets! All Year Long! Color, Write, Cut, GlueHelp students work on essential school fine motor skills with fun monthly themes all year long! You will receive a whole year's worth of Fine Motor Packets = each month is provided in a 30 color page PDF version & 30 black/white page PDF version (60 pages total). Digital download available electronically im
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PreK - 1st
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*BUNDLE* Fine Motor PK-K • Pre-Writing & Scissors Skills • 12 Month Themes
Full Year containing 12 Months of Fun Kid ThemesYEAR LONG MEGA BUNDLE! Lines, Paths, Shapes • Pre-Writing, Scissors SkillsDesigned for Fine Motor Stations, School Activities, and Home ProgramsPreschool-Kindergarten, Occupational Therapy, SPEDSAVE with this Bundle! All FOUR Seasons included:Spring Bundle: Mar, Apr, May = $8Summer Bundle: Jun, Jul, Aug = $8Fall Bundle: Sept, Oct, Nov = $8Winter Bundle: Dec, Jan, Feb = $8$32 value for all 12 months! >>> FREEBIE BONUS FILE with the pu
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PreK - 1st
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Summer Camp - Fine Motor & Visual Motor - Color, Write, Cut, Glue
Summer Camp - Fine Motor Activity Packet - Color, Write, Cut, Glue - JuneDesigned for: Kindergarten, SPED, OT, Home Activities, Fine Motor StationsHelp students work on essential school fine motor skills in a fun Summer Camp - themed way! Great for the month of June! You will receive: 30 color page PDF + 30 black/white page PDF digital download, available electronically immediately following payment. Summer Camp Theme pics include: tent, campfire, s'mores, roast marshmallows, frogs, fishing po
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PreK - 1st
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Sky Grass Dirt - Letter Line Placement - Signs and Worksheets - Fine Motor
SKY GRASS DIRTFix Letter Sizing and Line PlacementSigns for Classroom DecorWorksheets for Fine Motor ActivitiesYouTube Video created by Your Therapy Source (www.yourtherapysource.com):Sky Grass Dirt - Movement VideoSky Grass Dirt - Signs - Version 1 = 30 pages totalSky Grass Dirt - Signs - Version 2 = 30 pages totalSky Grass Dirt - Signs - Version 1 - with highlight = 30 pages totalSky Grass Dirt - Signs - Version 2 - with highlight = 30 pages total2 Versions available: only difference are the
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PreK - 2nd
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Spring Gardens - Fine Motor & Visual Motor - Color, Write, Cut, Glue
Spring Gardens - Fine Motor Activity Packet - Color, Write, Cut, Glue - MayDesigned for: Kindergarten, SPED, OT, Home Activities, Fine Motor StationsHelp students work on essential school fine motor skills in a fun Spring Gardens - themed way! Great for the month of May! You will receive: 30 color page PDF + 30 black/white page PDF digital download, available electronically immediately following payment. Spring Gardens Theme pics include: strawberries, strawberry patch, strawberry baskets, caul
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PreK - 1st
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St. Patrick's Day - Fine Motor & Visual Motor - Color, Write, Cut, Glue
St. Patrick's Day • Fine Motor Activity Packet • Color, Write, Cut, Glue • MarchDesigned for: Kindergarten, SPED, OT, Home Activities, Fine Motor StationsHelp students work on essential school fine motor skills in a fun St. Patrick's Day - themed way! Great for the month of March! You will receive: 30 color page PDF + 30 black/white page PDF digital download, available electronically immediately following payment. St. Patrick's Day Theme pics include: shamrocks, rainbows, leprechauns, kites, cl
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PreK - 1st
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Winter Wonderland • Fine Motor & Visual Motor • Color, Write, Cut, Glue
Winter Wonderland • Fine Motor Activity Packet • Color, Write, Cut, Glue • JanDesigned for: Kindergarten, SPED, OT, Home Activities, Fine Motor StationsHelp students work on essential school fine motor skills in a fun Winter Wonderland - themed way! Great for the month of January! You will receive: 30 color page PDF + 30 black/white page PDF digital download, available electronically immediately following payment. Winter Wonderland pics include: snow, snowball, snowman, sled, sledding, buildi
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PreK - 1st
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*BUNDLE* Play Dough Mats - Build Write - Spring Summer Fall Winter - Fine Motor
*FREE* Play Dough Mats - Build and Write - Spring Summer Fall Winter - Fine MotoSPRING: rainbowSUMMER: shellFALL: appleWINTER: mittenSimple Assembly: Print packet and laminate or put in plastic sheets. All You Need: Dry Erase Markers, Play Dough>> FREE Preview Product - Play Dough Mats - Build and Write - Spring Summer Fall Winter (4 pages)>> FULL Paid Product - Play Dough Mats - Build and Write - Spring Summer Fall Winter (80 pages)FULL PAID PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONSpring Packet - Color
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PreK - K
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Bugs and Birds - Fine Motor & Visual Motor - Color, Write, Cut, Glue
Bugs & Birds - Fine Motor Activity Packet - Color, Write, Cut, Glue - AprilDesigned for: Kindergarten, SPED, OT, Home Activities, Fine Motor StationsHelp students work on essential school fine motor skills in a fun Bugs and Birds - themed way! Great for the month of April! You will receive: 30 color page PDF + 30 black/white page PDF digital download, available electronically immediately following payment. Bugs and Birds Theme pics include: birds, eggs, nest, birdhouse, bee, beekeeper, hone
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PreK - 1st
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Halloween Pumpkins - Fine Motor & Visual Motor - Color, Write, Cut, Glue
Halloween + Pumpkins Fine Motor Activity Packet • Color, Write, Cut, Glue • OctDesigned for: Kindergarten, SPED, OT, Home Activities, Fine Motor StationsHelp students work on essential school fine motor skills in a fun Halloween - themed way! Great for the month of October! You will receive: 30 color page PDF + 30 black/white page PDF digital download, available electronically immediately following payment. Halloween pics include: pumpkins, pumpkin patch, wagon, jack-o-lantern, ghost, caramel
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PreK - 1st
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CVC Word and Sentence Reading Picture Match (Cut & Paste)
This worksheet includes 5 sentences using a variety of CVC words and sight words. This activity requires students use early phonics skills to decode words to be able to find the correct picture. The pictures have to be cut out, which helps build fine motor skills.
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PreK - 1st
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FREEBIE!! WH-Questions Pizza Party! Game for Speech therapy - 90 questions
Please make sure to also check out my Build an Ice Cream Cone WH-Question scenes
Today marks my one year TPT anniversary and as thanks to all of my customers and followers I am posting this freebie! TPT has truly changed my life by making me a better therapist - making materials seems less of a job when you can share them with others!
This game is intended to target basic WH- and How-questions.
CONTENTS (all PDF):
• Pizza slice game board
• 90 Question cards - 15 for each of the following qu
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PreK - 2nd
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FREE Alphabet and Letter Sounds Posters | Phonics Anchor Charts
FREE Alphabet and Letter Sounds Posters | Phonics Anchor ChartsAbout this book:This book contains 7 Alphabet charts in color and black and white. They can be used in student writing folders, classroom writing center or sent home for additional practice. Directions for use:The chart versions available are:1. Alphabet letters only (color and black and white)2. Alphabet letters only and long vowels (color and black and white)3. Alphabet and common picture words (color and black and white)4. Alphabe
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PreK - 1st
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FREE Counting Math Patterns Kindergarten Math Review Worksheets Apple Theme
These FREE printable preschool or kindergarten math review worksheets feature a fun apple math theme for back to school activities, an apple unit, or to supplement a Dr. Seuss literacy unit (Apples on Top - one of our favorites!) For your convenience, you will download both TPT digital EASEL and printable PDF resource formats.It works well as an independent work packet for distancing learning at home. Students will practice counting and coloring. They will also practice patterns with a cut and p
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PreK - K
Phonics Mini Books: Consonant Digraphs
**TPT FEATURED FREEBIE, 10/14!**This is a fun project that takes about 20-30 minutes per book, designed for kids Pre-K - 1st. Students learn a new consonant digraph each book by coloringpictures containing the targeted digraph and tracing over the letters as they occur in words.Each book is a single sheet of paper divided into 8 sections.When the student has completed coloring the sections, the paper is folded into a “book” that he/she can take home.CONCEPTS:There are 5 common digraphs covered,
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PreK - 1st
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Community Helpers Sorting Mats
This community helpers activity includes sorting mats to help kids learn about the roles of a firefighter, doctor, police, mail carrier, chef, construction worker and vet.Please Note:You'll need to unzip this file in order to print the PDFs. Please see the TpT help link here for instructions on how to do this.Please read my Terms of Use. This resource is for personal classroom use by the teacher who downloads it only. Reselling it in any format is NOT permitted. A special thank you to all of you
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PreK - 1st
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FREE Behavior Emotional Regulation Social Narrative
Behavior management and emotional regulation: A social narrative mini-book on how to handle frustration with calming strategies. A great way to discuss feelings and appropriate ways to express them!The one-page foldable mini book comes in color and black & white. In addition, there is a larger black-and-white version to fit your needs. Use the larger version on your device as a NO PRINT option!I would appreciate it if you left a rating and feedback for this free product!_____________________
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PreK - K
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Writing Prompts with Sentence Starters Writing Journal Free Pack
This product is a Sample of my Differentiated Writing Journals. These notebooks are differentiated for 4 different stages (pre-literate, emergent, transitional, and fluent writers). There is a total of 5 differentiated options for each writing prompt. Included with each prompt is a full sentence, sentence starter, vocabulary bank, picture bank (picture prompt), or a blank writing space. There is a self-check rubric at each stage where students can make sure they have included a capital letter, e
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PreK - 5th
Also included in: Year Long Writing Prompt Journal Activities with Sentence Starters
Shape Sorting FREEBIE | Shape Recognition | Preschool PreK Kindergarten
SHAPE SORTING ACTIVITY: This hands-on activity is a fun way to help your children recognize and sort shapes. These cute and colorful cards can be used as a whole class “circle time” activity or in small group instruction for children who need extra practice with their shapes. They can also be put in your math center for the children to work on individually. This set includes 9 shape headings and 48 colored shape cards. The shapes included in this set are circle, square, triangle, rectangle, ova
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PreK - 1st
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Also included in: Sorting Activities BUNDLE | Preschool PreK Kindergarten | Category Sort
FREE Handwriting Practice Pages
FREE Handwriting Practice Pages {Lowercase Letters}About this bookThis book contains basic handwriting sheets for children who need extra practice to perfect their letters. Each handwriting sheet displays a letter with correct letter formation, then 5 writing lines for them to trace the letter.Directions for useChildren begin by finger tracing the large letter in the top left corner of the page. They then trace the smaller letters. Once finished, older children may write the letter in the blank
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PreK - 1st
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Free Fine Motor Hole Punch Activity - Celebration Theme Hole Punch & Cut Stirps
Help your kids build hand strength and develop scissor skills with this fun fine motor activity freebie. Kids can use a hole puncher to punch holes into the images, and then can cut the images apart on the lines.Use these easy-to-prep activities for fine motor work bins, task boxes, and morning work stations. The Celebration Fine Motor Activities Set Includes7 different seasonal hole punch and cut strips2 printing options for easy prep.Class Set - Print multiple copies of one hole punch and cut
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PreK - 1st
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2D Shapes Worksheets
These worksheets focus on four basic geometric shapes: triangle, rectangle, square and circle. Your students will also develop, learn and practice:♥ tracing♥ drawing♥ printing♥ identifying shapes and understanding that they can be sorted and grouped by their attributes.This file is part of my shapes mini units, which provide ideas and activities on teaching shapes to preschoolers, kindergarteners and first graders. These worksheets can be used during RTI, intervention or for homework.Also, use t
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PreK - 1st
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Free Community Helpers Tracing and Coloring Pages
This set includes coloring pages for 50 community helpers. The name of the community helper is included on each page for your students to trace.★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★This freebie goes along with Community Helpers Bundle.The bundle includes:Community Helpers Anchor Charts and Word Wall CardsCommunity Helpers Booklets and Interactive Reading ActivitiesCommunity Helpers Graphic Organizers and Writing PagesCommunity Helpers Write the RoomCommunity Helpers Puzzles★★★★★★★★★
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PreK - 2nd
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Rhyming Activity Book | CVC Rhyming Flip Book -at Word Family Freebie
This free - at word family flip books will help you teach rhyming, beginning sounds, CVC words, phoneme segmentation, and blending. The book is a perfect addition to your literacy centers in preschool, pre-k, prep, kindergarten, RTI, and SPED. This -at word family rhyming flip book is sample of the books included in my full set of CVC Rhyming Flip BooksThe full set contains 17 CVC rhyming flip books for the following word families:-ag -at-ap -an -am-ed -en -et-ip -in -ig-op -ot-ub -ug -ut -unE
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PreK - K
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Find Social Studies - History resources | TPT
Importance of learning social studies
Social studies offers valuable insights into history, geography, and much more. Social studies captivates students by providing them with perspectives from the past, present, and future, allowing them to understand history and navigate current events. It enables them to appreciate how previous generations have shaped their present reality. In essence, social studies opens their eyes to the vastness of life beyond their immediate surroundings.
Benefits of learning social studies
Learning social studies offers many benefits to students in terms of helping them develop a holistic understanding of the world. Namely, it helps them:
- Learn about the achievements, challenges, perspectives, traditions, and customs of different societies
- Evaluate information, analyze evidence, and make informed judgments about complex social, economic, and political issues
- Become active, responsible, and engaged citizens
- Comprehend global issues such as human rights, environmental sustainability, and economic disparities
By teaching social studies, teachers can help students develop critical thinking skills, foster civic engagement, and promote social awareness and responsibility.
Teaching with social studies resources
On TPT, social studies resources come in various formats, from worksheets to interactive notebooks to units. They can be used to enhance learning, assess a student’s mastery of social studies concepts, or to reteach a tricky topic. With plenty of TPT resources at your fingertips, teaching and learning social studies will be so much easier.
Discover printable and digital social studies resources
If you’re a teacher or parent looking for printable or digital social studies resources, TPT has an extensive array of instructional materials for every learning need, topic, or grade level. Whether you’re teaching students about America’s democratic process, the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., how to read maps, or World War II, we’ve got you covered.
Social studies resources on TPT offer informative lessons, engaging texts, intriguing facts, interactive puzzles, and enjoyable trivia games. These grade-specific resources ensure that all students can access age-appropriate materials that stimulate their minds and enhance their creative thinking abilities.
For instance, first graders can explore worksheets on senses and emotions, followed by a coloring page featuring Harriet Tubman. Older students can test their knowledge with quizzes on statistics and capital cities, then delve into the history of the Underground Railroad through an informational sheet or enjoy a word search focused on civil rights leaders. With such a wide variety of subjects and topics covered, our social studies pages provide endless opportunities for students to explore the world in captivating ways.
Frequently asked questions about teaching social studies
What types of social studies lessons are available on TPT?
There are many different types of history resources sold by Sellers on TPT. Some popular social studies lessons include U.S. history, world history, ancient history, geography, civics, and government.
How do I find social studies lessons on TPT?
Educators can save time preparing history lessons with resources created by experienced teachers. Simply start a search for social studies resources on the TPT marketplace, and filter by grade level, price, and/or resource type to find materials that've been proven to work in classrooms like yours. No matter what you’re teaching, there are plenty of social studies lessons and activities sold by Sellers on TPT that are tailored to meet your students' skill levels.
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