Special Education Curriculum, Lesson Plans, and Activities
Special Education Curriculum Support Strategies and Resources
Special education and general classroom teachers often need special education curriculum materials to accommodate the learning needs of students on Individualized Education Plans (IEPs) or Section 504 plans. Special education curriculum support resources focus on teaching strategies for various special populations, curriculum adaptation techniques for core academic subjects like math, reading, and science.
These resources provide generalists and special education teachers with strategies and tools for developing and implementing special education curriculum supports. Included are special education lesson plans, special education activities, and other materials for academic instruction and support.
Teaching Strategies
- Best Practices for Supporting Students with Special Needs
- Effective Teaching Strategies
- Encouraging Students with Learning Problems
- Thinking Styles and Learning Preferences Student Inventory
- Modifying Instruction: Teaching Students with ADD
- Working Together with Families – Teaching Students with ADD
- Teaching English-Language Learners with Learning Difficulties
- Teaching Academic Language
- What Is Meaningful Access to the General Curriculum?
- The Assignment Routine
- Effective Instruction for English Language Learners with Mild Disabilities
- Enhancing Memory
- Increasing Attention
- Controlling Disorganization
- Symbolic and Non-symbolic information
Resources for Reading
- Inclusive Learning Activity Unit for ELA, Science, Social Studies
- Reading Comprehension Strategies for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
- Repeated Reading
- Joey Pigza Series Common Core Teacher's Guide
- Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key Discussion Guide
- Educator's Guide to Al Capone Does My Shirts/a>
- Al Capone Does My Shirts & Al Capone Shines My Shoes Discussion Guide
- Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World Discussion Guide
Curriculum Adaptation Resources
- Six Principles of Effective Curriculum Design for Inclusive Classrooms
- Primed Background Knowledge
- Judicious Review
- Strategic Integration
- Mediated Scaffolding
- Conspicuous Strategies
- Big Ideas
- Adapt Lessons to Reach All Students
- Adapting Existing Materials
- Simplifying or Supplementing Existing Materials
- Structuring Lessons to Promote Learning from Materials
- Adapting Instructional Materials -- Providing Direct Assistance
- Structuring Lessons for Diverse Learners -- Planning Pyramid
- Differentiated Textbook Instruction
- Adapting Language Arts, Social Studies, and Science for the Inclusive Classroom
Resources for Math & Science
- Inclusive Learning Activity Unit for ELA, Science, Social Studies
- Tips for Science Teachers Working with Autistic Students
- Planning Pyramid for Multi-Level Mathematics Instruction
- Teaching Mathematics to Gifted Students in a Mixed-Ability Classroom
- Collaboration in Today's Math Classroom
- National Mathematics Standards/a>
- Mathematical Dispositions
- Math in Today's Schools
- Scope of the Mathematics Curriculum
- Setting: Separate Location
- Setting: Preferential Seating
