Rhymes/ Songs
This song has probably been used in every SPED classroom for movement breaks, body awareness, and transition regulation.
Head, shoulders, knees and toes
This story naturally supports teaching emotions, problem solving, and perspective-taking through “not too big, not too small…”
The teacher scribes student-generated ideas into repeated sentence frames for group reading
Predictable Chart Writing
This happens when you spend 2 hours preparing materials and the student is only interested in the Velcro.
Teaching in a SPED class
How many years of experience does your team have?
Add the no. of years of each team member to get the Total of years
Teachers use this song to secretly work on joint attention, imitation, requesting, and motor planning while pretending it’s “just music.”
If you are happy and you know it
This repetitive story is excellent for modelling “run run as fast as you can” and building anticipation during shared reading.
Gingerbread Man
This teaching approach allows students to participate in reading even if they are not yet decoding independently.
Shared Reading
This is the professional skill of pretending to stay calm while internally panicking because the lesson materials were left in another classroom. (R________)
Teacher Resilience
Share 5 Core words from the RC Core boards, other than I, You, Eat, Drink, Go, Want!
Verified!
Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket
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Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket
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Never let it fade away
Save it for a rainy day
This story can easily be adapted with props, AAC, repeated lines, role play, sequencing, and sensory experiences involving mud.
We're going on a bear hunt
This phrase is commonly heard moments before discovering the communication book is missing.
"Where is his AAC?"
This instructional material is rebuilt approximately 14 times after being chewed, ripped, or mysteriously soaked.
Visual Support
State 3 classic stories with animals in them.
Any stories with animals in them
This nursery rhyme could double up as an early science lesson about gravity and poor wall safety practices.
Humpty Dumpty
This family ignored structural engineering principles and sensory-friendly housing considerations when selecting building materials.
Three little pigs
This literacy support strategy often involves Velcro, laminating pouches, and mysterious disappearance of symbols.
AAC Resource Preparation
This teacher skill involves speaking, pointing, modelling AAC, turning pages, managing behaviour, and singing simultaneously. What is the skillset?
Multi Tasking
Congrats!
It's a Giveaway!
This repetitive song becomes progressively harder because the singer must remember an increasing sequence of items purchased.
Twelve Days of Christmas
This instructional principle reminds teachers to provide access to literacy despite speech, motor, or cognitive challenges
Presume Competence
Sing your favourite song/ rhyme with accompanying actions.
Great! You Did it!