Special education reading

If you are a special education teacher, then you know that IEP goals play an important role in our job. Today, I want to share how to set up IEP goal bins to make your life easier as a special ed teacher. Data tracking for special education students is easy once you prep your goal bins. Each special ed student gets a container, a label with their name, and materials for each objective. Read more about what is inside and how to keep them organized in your special ed classroom.

Do your students struggle to show that they are able to comprehend what they have read? Being able to demonstrate comprehension is a vital life skill. Here is how we target reading comprehension in my self-contained special education classroom. Many of my students have language based disabilities. The more words (spoken or written), the more ... Read More about Functional Reading Comprehension Instruction In Special Ed.

Teaching reading has always been a struggle for me. The curriculum I was using needed something more. I needed something more hands-on, more engaging so that my students made better progress. I also wanted to provide the main instruction instead of my paras or peer tutors. Throughout the time I was teaching, I continually added and changed how language arts and reading instruction in my classroom looked, and it's been a successful change!

Functional reading is critical for our older students, but can be tough. In this post I outline the steps for instruction with tools to help.

Collecting data for progress monitoring should be EASY! But often times, as special education teachers, progress monitoring is just overwhelming and time-consuming. Let's me it easy by collecting your data DURING your reading intervention groups. Progress monitoring really can happen in minutes!

Organization is important in special education. We are often pulling group and group of students for reading interventions. We need to be well organized and have a place for everything. I also think a good system will save you for the rest of the year. Here's how I organize my reading intervention materials.

Do you want to learn how to create adapted books for special education classrooms? This post provides a step by step list, with examples...

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In order to develop life long and functional skills, students need to be able to read in different situations. Use this list of 10 ideas to plan your functional reading activities and develop critical skills. Click to read now.

The choices special education teachers and therapists make in classroom decor significantly impacts classroom and behavior management. Click to read what you should and shouldn't do as well as some areas to pause and think about first.