In this video Sasha from theautismhelper.com presents the Level 1 Language Arts Daily Curriculum, an individualized, visually‑based program designed primarily for students with autism and other special needs. The curriculum is organized into three proficiency levels; Level 1 targets foundational learners with eight instructional units plus a review unit. Each unit contains 2‑3 focus topics, a pre‑test and post‑test, a detailed grading rubric with error‑analysis guidance, a colored anchor chart, and 20 daily activities that can be stretched or compressed to fit student pacing. The system emphasizes routine, visual supports, and continuous review of mastered skills. Embedded assessments generate baseline and growth data, which feed into data‑sheets and a grading sheet to drive data‑based decision‑making and future instruction planning. Accommodations are built in for non‑verbal, low‑verbal, and limited‑writing learners, using matching, tracing, and receptive‑language tasks, with suggestions for adapting worksheets. Additional resources include lesson‑plan templates and a data‑sheet for each activity. The presenter highlights the curriculum’s appeal to teachers, administrators, and multi‑level classrooms, noting its year‑long scope, purchase options (individual levels or bundle), and upcoming math curriculum.
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Hi, this is Sasha from theautismhelper.com, and I'm really excited to share with you our Language Arts Level Daily Curriculum Level 1. So the Level Daily Curriculum is an individualized curriculum created specifically for students with autism and students with special needs. This curriculum can be utilized by any learner, but it's specially designed for our learners that have the most challenges and need that structure and visual-based curriculum that we often as teachers have a really hard time finding. So this curriculum is broken into 3 levels based on your student's level of functioning. Level 1 is the easiest level, Level 2 is a little bit more challenging, Level 3 is the most complex. So the 3 different levels can each be purchased separately or you can purchase them as a bundle. I know many of us have multi-level classrooms. You have students on all ranges of the spectrum on all skill sets. So it's nice to have every different option. Today we're gonna really look at Level 1 and exactly what's included in this curriculum and what types of learners this curriculum is perfect for. So the Level Daily Curriculum is structured. Our students need routine. They're not gonna have to relearn the structure of each worksheet or activity. They're gonna really be able to focus on the skill it's trying to teach. Most importantly, the— this curriculum breaks down each skill into manageable parts. It takes the big skill and looks at all those little component pieces that the student needs to master first. It also continuously reviews the previously mastered skills, which is something I have a really hard time finding in other curriculum sets. This curriculum is visually based, which is really important for all learners and is going to ease the, the fluency at which they learn all of these different skills. This curriculum has embedded assessments and utilizes data-based decision-making. This curriculum has a really amazing grading rubric that's going to wow your administrators that I'll show you in a few minutes. So Level 1, there's 8 different units plus a review unit. Let's check out what's included in each unit. So each unit has 2 to 3 different focus topics. This unit is a— this level is really for our most foundational and basic level learners. So a lot of these skills are these early academic skills such as lowercase and uppercase letters, identifying big and little, categorizing, identifying by feature or function. This unit also has a huge focus on vocabulary. Every unit has a different vocabulary topic that students will learn different vocabulary words for. You can accomplish these vocabulary tasks for receptive language or expressive language, which I'll talk about in a minute. But the great thing that that means is that even your learners who are nonverbal or who have minimal verbal skills can still participate in this curriculum in a meaningful and successful way. So what's included in a unit? In one unit, there's a pretest and a posttest so you can assess where the student was before you started teaching, and then you can see all of the great work you did and show all of that great, great growth that they've had. There's a really amazing grading rubric that's going to teach you exactly how to analyze their errors and plan your future instruction. There's a visual colored anchor chart that will show the main points for each unit, which will be a great reference tool and matching tool for your students. And then there's 20 different activities included. So the idea of 20 different activities is that you could do one activity each day for a month. So ideally, this unit could be used for one whole month. You have 8 units plus a review unit, so your language arts curriculum is planned for the entire year, which is amazing. Now, we all know some of our students might need a little more time or a little less time, so of course this can be individualized as needed. So the pretest and the posttest is gonna give you that great baseline data. It's gonna show where your student is before you've introduced any of these topics, and then it's gonna show at the end of the unit what they've learned. Seeing that growth as a teacher is so exciting, is gonna make you feel so proud of you and your student. Now the grading rubric is where this curriculum really, really rocks. So I'm going to show you all the different components of this grading rubric and why your principals or administrators are going to be just wowed by this. So after you complete the pretest or the posttest, you'll score the each, each response. So there's very detailed instructions on how to score the entire pretest and posttest. You'll, you'll determine how many correct and how many incorrect and even get a percentage if needed. Many of us have IEP goals that are written as percentage, so this will really help and easier IEP goal benchmark tracking. Now the cool part is for the posttest, this test is going to help analyze your students' errors. Our students have so much to work on, we cannot waste time working on things they've already mastered. This assessment is going to show you exactly what they've not mastered yet and what you need to work on in the future. So you're going to be using your data, using that post-test data to plan future instruction. So this is all database decision-making. You're gonna know exactly where your students' weaknesses are, and this, this rubric provides suggested activities on continuing in those areas. So each unit has a, has a colored anchor chart. The rest of the activities are black and white, so your printer can thank me, but the anchor charts are all in color. These would be great to post in the front of your classroom while you're doing each unit. You could print one for each student and have them keep it in their binders. This would be awesome to project onto a smartboard or put on the iPad every day. There's a lot of great ways you can play around with this. This anchor chart is going to be used as the reference guide. Some of these skills might be a little hard for your kids, and a great accommodation accommodation is teaching them to match from the anchor chart. A lot of us have kids that can match, but let's take that a little bit farther. Maybe they don't know the word for pig, but they can look at the anchor chart, match the word to the picture, and reference their worksheets. Here's an example of one of the anchor charts. So the 20 different activities— each unit has 20 different activities focused on the unit's topics, but I mentioned a lot— there's some review topics as well. So in Level 7, in Unit 7, there might be some Unit 2 or Unit 3 activities popping in to make sure our students are continually practicing those previously mastered skills. These are all black and white, they're very visually based, and a lot of these activities are matching or circling so we can minimize the, minimize the type of the amount of writing needed because I know a lot of these learners at this level struggle with writing. So some accommodations you can make I'll talk about later for your students that maybe don't have any writing skills yet. So who is this unit for? We've already talked about this, but to recap, this student— this unit is for students that need to work on those foundational and basic skills. This unit is perfect for students who are nonverbal, who have low verbal skills and need to really expand their language abilities. This unit is great for students who have limited writing skills. There's a lot of tracing, a lot of matching for your students to help expand their fine motor and writing abilities. This unit is also great for early childhood to target a lot of these very basic skills. So how can you adapt this unit? I know some of you are thinking, "I have learners that can't write at all. How can they utilize this curriculum?" So you can add in some writing prompts. You can go ahead on the worksheets and highlight where you want your students to write and what words you want them to write and have them follow and trace that highlighted word. You can focus on receptive language skills for your students who are nonverbal, having them identify the words as you say them as opposed as opposed to trying to model your vocal behavior. You can also work on these skills slowly. You can stretch out one unit to take 2 to 3 months and really let your students have the time to look at— fully master each skill. So what else is included in this unit? We have a grading sheet that's going to track your pretest and your posttest scores for each student. This is gonna really guide your instruction for the whole year and it's gonna show all that great growth we talked about. There's also a data sheet for each of the activities, so you can photocopy this front to back, and this data sheet will, will accomplish your data for the entire month. So you'll have plenty of space for each activity to count the number of correct, number incorrects, and any prompts needed. There's also two different lesson plan templates. Many administrators in school require lesson plans, so this curriculum is easy to show in your— within lesson plans on exactly what your students are working on each day. So I hope you enjoyed seeing our— I hope you enjoyed checking out our language arts level daily curriculum, Level 1. Please check out Level 2 and Level 3, as many of us have multi-level classrooms. And as I always say, you never know who's gonna show up at your doorstep the next day, so you'll always be ready for them. This curriculum will take a whole year and is so worth the money. I know this is an expensive unit. I've spent many, many months developing it, and my— I am beyond excited to use this in my classroom. Classroom because this is going to make my year so much easier. My whole language arts is planned in a way that my students can understand. I have math on the way. It's currently being edited, so I hope to bring you the math soon.
