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News to the Core Reported by Very Special Students

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students create news articles that help them build their knowledge, skills, and academic confidence. In this special education lesson, students use previous knowledge to write a newsletter and demonstrate their understanding of various...
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Job Transition -- The Great Adventure

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students review how to use a digital camera. Individually, they document their work related experience and gathering new skills by taking pictures. To end the activity, they put the photographs into a portfolio to show their progress in...
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Our Children are Learning to Survive

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students examine the various cultures of the world through literature. After reading various stories, they compare their own personal experience with the characters. In groups, they take the original story and add their own characters...
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Function Lesson Plan -- Asking for Repetition

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students with disabilities are tested in the use of language and taught the skill of asking for repetition in order to gain clarification and thus improve comprehension. They are assessed according to the practice of asking with...
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Teaching Students to Run Their Own IEP Meetings

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students who have IEP's for emotional/behavioral disorders are trained how to participate in and even conduct their own IEP meetings. They study the purpose of the IEP, definitions of special ed. related concepts, and the components of...
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Oy!

For Teachers K - 5th
Students practice saying and identifing the sounds "oi" and "oy'. They review the rules for saying two vowels that appear next to one another. They create illustrations for objects having those sounds.
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Transition Needs

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Special Education students practice setting a goal and following through with it. They learn skills needed for transitioning into a different part of their life.
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Celebrate National Inclusive Schools Week

For Teachers K - 12th
Students list traits that make them unique. They participate in a Bingo-like game, where they try to identify people by their traits.
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The Me Book

For Teachers K - 5th
Students relate to the pictures as symbols so that they come to point to named pictures, explain what pictured objects are for, match pictures to real objects, categorize objects, and recognize words.
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Photography for Language Use and Awareness

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students make storyboards and take photographs for slides to illustrate stories or "how to" demonstrations and write and recorded scripts to accompany their slides.
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News-2 You Weekly Activities

For Teachers K - 12th
Students complete activities from a special education newspaper.  For this News-2 lesson, students read the paper, play games, and complete worksheets. Subscription to newspaper is required.
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Video Self Modeling to Teach Students with Autism Appropriate LIFE SKILLS

For Teachers 2nd - Higher Ed
Use a video on self-modeling to practice life skills as part of an Autism activity. Students complete modeling activities and use a video activity to practice the life skills.
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Relying on People You Know for Transportation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the concept of transportation and focus upon carpooling to work. They role play the skill of asking for a ride and making arrangements for a transportation schedule. Students reflect...
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Parent and Student Involvement In Transition Planning

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars work with educators, parents, and ancillary staff to determine the appropriate team members to be present at Individualized Education Program (IEP) meetings. Along with the student, a team of care providers creates a...
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Read Us a Story

For Teachers K - 5th
Students take turns reading a story using a book on tape/cd. Special education students are encouraged to control the story telling by using the buttons on the tape/cd player. The instructor should interject with various questions about...
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Imagination Express: Rain Forest

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders create a living book and present them to an audience.
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Fort Morgan, Colorado - 100 Years of Progress and Promise

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Students discover and practice interviewing skills by role-playing. They utilize these techniques while discussing the history of Fort Morgan with senior citizens who came to the school and with those whom they visited in the local...