Angela Kulcsar presents Match It!, a set of 14 printable matching and spelling activities for autistic children. The tasks keep hands busy, reduce behavior problems, and let staff teach new skills one-on-one. Activities include letters, numbers, colors, shapes, clocks, coins, and spelling pages for school words, food, colors, and shapes.
I'm Angela Kulcsar from TheAutismHelper.com, and this is a product preview of Match It! Interactive Tasks for Children with Autism. So I get a lot of emails and questions about what to do those first few weeks, or for a teacher feeling overwhelmed who doesn't know where to start. And my first piece of advice is to make a lot of easy tasks to keep those hands busy. Behavior problems happen when your kids have nothing to do, so you really want to make sure that you have enough tasks that your kids are going to be engaged and working. And these don't necessarily need to be easy tasks that aren't working any academic skills, but something that's independent that's previously mastered. So these are a bunch of different matching activities that are perfect for this type of thing. They're on previously mastered skills but are still time-consuming and are, and are working on skill generalization. So I'm going to take you through— there's 14 different activities in here on a pretty wide range of types of skill level abilities. So you'll be able to have some of your lower kids and some of your higher kids still engaged in an independent matching task. That can take up some of their time so you could work one-on-one with other students teaching them the routine, teaching them new tasks, things like that. So the first one is just a simple matching letters. I love to laminate the pages and then put hard Velcro on the piece on the page and then soft Velcro on the back of the pieces, and then you could put all these pieces in a baggie. You could also use page protectors for the page as well if you're running low on laminating. That's a good way to save some money and resources. So here's matching letters, just a simple task. Matching numbers, so again, these are still working on those foundational academic tasks. Matching colors, this one is great for some of your lower students that are still learning matching skills. And then matching colors to words, so a great way to build sight word vocabulary as well. Matching shapes, which is kind of taking that to a little bit of a harder level. And then shapes to name, so again, adding the literacy component for some of your higher kids. Next are matching clocks. So this is just matching the exact clock piece to the exact clock piece. So here are the pieces. This is a great challenging matching task. So even if your kids aren't ready for the telling time, but this is a really good complicated matching task because they really have to discriminate. These two pieces look really similar, so you really do have to look. So next there is matching Clock matching coins. These are the exact pieces, just an easy matching, and then matching coins to the name right here. So combining the name over here. This clock one is out of order, but the next kind of clock piece was matching the pictures of the clocks to the actual time. So again, taking it from just the matching of the matching to the actual telling of the time. And then there's 3 different spelling pages. They're spelling school words. So I laminate these pieces, put soft Velcro on the back letters, and they put the letters in order to spell the words. This is great for your kids that don't write or maybe nonverbal to still work on spelling skills and sight words. So here's school words, food, colors, and shapes. So there's 4 different spelling tasks as well, um, all with the letters. And these really are time-consuming but are also really meaningful. Alright, so this was a product preview of Match It! Interactive Tasks for Children with Autism by TheAutismHelper.com.
