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Free 7th grade science guided reading books for special education
States of Matter - Reading Comprehension Worksheets
Do your students struggle with scientific literacy? Do you find yourself at a loss for how to promote vocabulary retention? Are waning attention spans becoming a larger and larger problem in your classroom from year to year? If you answered yes to any of those questions then this resource is for you. I believe that teaching literacy is the job of every teacher, not just the heroes in English and Language Arts. And the only way we can help our students improve is by modeling and giving them chanc
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5th - 8th
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MS-PS1-2
Also included in: Physical Science Reading Comprehension Bundle
FREE Templates for Creating Adapted Books for Special Education
This FREE pack includes four templates for creating adapted & interactive books that are perfect for students with Autism or other disabilities. With this product, you will use PowerPoint to easily edit the text and add pictures to create a simple book. Please note: you need Powerpoint to edit/ create these books.Book template #1: Is a half-page interactive bookIncludes cards for matchingIncludes pages for comprehension questionsBook template #2: Is a half-page interactive bookIncludes cards
Grades:
PreK - 12th
Food Groups Mini-Book FREEBIE Special Education Google Slides and PDF
Food Group text and reading comprehension for special education. Adapted MINI-Book and reading comprehension for Food Groups. FIND FULL SIZE BOOKS IN MY STORE. MyPlate, Healthy Living, and Healthy Eating Series! Printable PDF and interactive Google Slides for distance learning, blended, and in person! Great for special education, speech therapy, and early learners! All real pictures and age appropriate for all ages! Food Group Interactive Books and Comprehension: Click here for bundle!Food Grou
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2nd - 12th, Adult Education
Digital Core Vocabulary Adapted Book BIG Boom Cards
This is a free sample of a larger bundle of these books you can get here. Enjoy the freebie! This is a decks of BOOM cards including a 10 page adapted book for the core vocabulary word "BIG". These books can be read to your students in order to model the language and have them utilize with a core board, communication device, or other forms of AAC. There are interactive pieces (in a field of 3) of the core vocabulary words that you or a student can manipulate as the story is read. Words Included:
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PreK - 12th
Culture and Reading Comprehension Passage on Terracotta Warriors in Xian China
Do your students want to learn more about China? This is a great cultural activity! Teach students about the Terracotta Warriors with these reading comprehension passages and engaging activities. Your students will love learning about Xi'an, China. This ancient city is famous for the Terracotta Warriors! What people are saying about this cultural packet:- "Great product that promotes cultural awareness while building reading comprehension skills. The pictures do a great job of bringing the read
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7th - 10th
Special Education Social Studies Great Depression Reading Comprehension
This Great Depression worksheet was made for my 7th-grade special education social studies and my ESL students to help them understand the topic. This simple Great Depression reading with visuals and questions is great for general education for ESL middle and high school students, or special education.Images are shown for new vocabulary words. Reading Comprehension Questions at the end of the reading to check for understanding. This Social Studies Worksheet Covers:Stock Market CrashHoovervillesD
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6th - 9th
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English & Spanish Social Story: "I Keep My Hands to Myself At the Playground"
Social Stories Really Work! Now in English and Spanish.This story has been used to correct common problematic recess behaviors. Do you have students who push and hit at recess? Do you have nonverbal students or diverse learners who need explicit instruction on how to get a peer's attention on the playground? Do you teach young students who need to learn social skills like- how to verbally request to share a ball or toy or how to invite others to play at the playground?This social story will hel
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PreK - 7th
Electromagnetic Spectrum Foldable
This accordion folded graphic organizer of the electromagnetic spectrum allows students to see the relative size of the wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum. Additionally, there is room for students to fill in uses of the various wavelengths. Suggested answers and photos of the finished product are included.
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5th - 8th
Jack and the Beanstalk SENSORY STORY: vocabulary cards/sequencing & guide
This is the Sensory Story; Jack and the Beanstalk. This is a sensory story about Jack who sells his cow to an old man for some magic beans. His mother became angry and threw the beans out the window which grew into a beanstalk. Join Jack on his adventures as he climbed the beanstalk. This is designed for students with high needs at a sensory level.Included in this pack;Sensory Story Power-pointSensory Story guide and resourcesVocabulary cards and sequencing activity (using vocabulary cards)Other
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PreK - 12th
Digital Core Vocabulary Activity for BIG Boom Cards
This is a free sample of a larger bundle of these activities you can get here. Enjoy the freebie! This freebie includes 7 interactive activities for the word "BIG". These activities include audio to support students in order to interact with the materials more independently. It also models the language and provides different modes of interaction with the word to help familiarize students and help them generalize it. Activities Included in each deck:Make the Word (with letter magnets)Listen and S
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PreK - 12th
Cells, Organelles, Specialised Cells and Levels of Organisation
Comprehension and additional task exercises pages 6 and 7 from Next Page Science. Suitable for 6th to 9th grade US. Accompanying PowerPoint, word searches and answers available for free from www.nextpagescience.com.This exercise covers:• Differences between plant and animal cells• Organelles and their functions• Labelling diagrams of cells• Specialised cells and their functions• Levels of organisation (organ, organs systems etc)
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6th - 9th
Emotions/Facial Expressions Social Story
Use this social story to assist a student with understanding the concept of facial expressions and emotions. Read it to a whole group, one on one, or place in your reading center.
Grades:
PreK - 12th
Interactive Core Word Book - Stop
An interactive book to target the core word "stop"! - A total of 15 interactive pages and 15 manipulative pieces - Uses real photos - Simple, repetitive, and predictable text - The core word is presented in text only - can be used with students utilizing any type of AAC system or symbol set! - The last page has space to comment on the book and to engage in writing for 3 sentence stems that contain the core word - Can be used 1-on-1 + in small and large groups - Can be sent home for carry over
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PreK - 12th
Turkey "I See Colors" Adapted Book (Autism/SPED)
Adapted Thanksgiving Turkey book. This book works on students identifying different colors of turkey's feathers. The repetition of sentences helps students practice reading skills. There is picture text support to visually aid student reading and understanding of vocabulary.
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PreK - 12th
Cells: Hi-Lo Text with Paired Comprehension Questions for Special Education
This bundle contains materials to supplement a middle school or high school science unit on cellular biology for special education students. This resource may be used to pre-teach or re-teach critical concepts from a grade level lesson, to differentiate assignments for students with learning disabilities, or to supplement a modified curriculum for students with moderate to intensive special needs.
All materials are written at an approximately first grade reading level with lots of images to bu
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6th - 9th
Out of My Mind Book Study
This is a Book Study for Out of my mind. It has links to the online e-book as well as audio.
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5th - 7th
What do they need? Hygiene Unit
Using web images. An adapted story for teaching special education students in middle or high school about hygiene products and what they are used for.
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6th - 12th
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I See Minions! Adapted Book
This Adapted Book is an easy reader designed for those with Autism. It is supplemented by PECS (picture exchange communication system) symbols. All of the backgrounds are white to avoid overstimulation, and the text is large and easy to read; no distractions! Use this book to help your emergent reader learn sentence structure, vocabulary, and to practice commenting skills.
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PreK - 12th
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E2E Adapted Lit: The Most Dangerous Game--SPED, ELL, Comprehension
Adapted Literature: The Most Dangerous Game by Richard ConnellPreviously sold in the Universally Designed TpT StoreStore Rating of 4.8/5.0 starsProduct Rating of 5.0/5.0 starsThis retelling of Richard Connell's The Most Dangerous Game reads at an automated readability index of grade 4/5. This text aligns to the version in Holt's Elements of Literature: Third Course.Classic literature doesn't have to be scary, boring, or too hard.Summary sites online and those little yellow and black notebooks ar
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7th - 12th
Solar System Reader's Theatre- two reading levels
This Reader's Theater is about the Solar System with 10 parts- Narrator and each of the planets. Students will learn the basic information about each planet while expanding their vocabulary and oral language skills.Example text: " Jupiter: Greetings, stargazers! I am Jupiter, the mighty gas giant, the largest of all planets. My swirling storms and enormous size make me a true king of the cosmos. Far beyond me, there's a realm of icy giants - Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune." Simpler version: "Jupit
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3rd - 7th
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NGSS:
MS-ESS1-3
Interactive Core Word Book - "Go"
An interactive book to target the core word "go" - the theme is "Go Animals Go"! - A total of 15 interactive pages and 15 manipulative pieces - Uses real photos - Simple, repetitive, and predictable text - The core word is presented in text only - can be used with students utilizing any type of AAC system or symbol set! - The last page has space for the student to comment on the book and to complete writing for 3 sentence stems that contain the core word - Can be used 1-on-1 and in small and la
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PreK - 12th
Braiding Sweetgrass Questions and Activities
Companion worksheets to use while reading "Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants," by Robin Wall Kimmerer, adapted for Young Adults. All vocabulary and discussion questions are taken directly from the book. Additional activities are examples and can be moved or replaced. I led a group of middle and high school boys for 12 weeks in an herbalism class in our homeschool cooperative. The students were to read one chapter and complete the first sect
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Interactive Core Word Book - "feel"
An interactive book to target the core word "feel"! - A total of 15 interactive pages and 15 manipulative pieces - Uses real photos - Simple, repetitive, and predictable text - The core word is presented in text only - can be used with students utilizing any type of AAC system or symbol set! - The last page has space to comment on the book and to engage in writing for 3 sentence stems that contain the core word - Can be used 1-on-1 + in small and large groups - Can be sent home for carry over
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Grades:
PreK - 12th
Structure of DNA Close Read and Questions in English and Spanish
Word doc. English and Spanish versions. This article reviews the structure of DNA, nitrogen base pairs, and enzymes of DNA replication. Close reads help students dissect and break down informational text.
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Grades:
5th - 11th
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