Michelle, a TK-2 special ed teacher, walks through Level Daily, a curriculum aligned to Common Core across nine subjects and six levels (0.5-4) for K-12 learners. It's evidence-based, incorporates Science of Reading, and lets you differentiate while keeping rigor high. She shows real classroom math and literacy tasks her students do independently.
Let me show you the only curriculum you'll need in a special education classroom. I'm Michelle with The Autism Helper. I'm a TK through 2nd grade special education teacher, and this is my classroom. Today I'm going to show you The Autism Helper's curriculum that I use for all of my students. This curriculum makes it super easy for me to differentiate and teach my students with high rigor and expectations. The Autism Helper's Level Daily curriculum is based on evidence and uses several evidence-based practices within its curriculum. The curriculum is also aligned with the Science of Reading instructional practices. Additionally, the curriculum follows the Common Core State Standards spanning 9 different subjects with 6 different levels. Using this curriculum in my classroom, I like to bring out our Common Core Standards alignment sheet, and I will sometimes highlight what the students are working on so that I can show parents that these are Common Core aligned. They're working on grade level appropriate materials. And what's amazing about the Autism Helpers Level Daily Curriculum is that their curriculum is age-appropriate. So this curriculum can be used, and it is appropriate for kindergarten students all the way up to 12th grade. And let me show you. So here we have our standards alignments. We have kindergarten, 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade. If you flip it over, it will show Common Core State Standards for grades K all the way to 12th grade, and it is very age-appropriate and relevant for students to be working on no matter their age. I don't currently use the science curriculum in my classroom, but I wanted to show you what the Level 4 science curriculum looked like so you could see that this is all very age-appropriate for any level of learner. So here, this is the phases of the moon, and they're labeling the phases of the moon. Also what each word means, they're writing definitions. So depending on the level of your learners, any student can use this curriculum. Okay, now here is a Level 0.5, and this is the lowest level that we offer, and this is also still very age-appropriate for somebody maybe in 12th grade who's working on matching shapes, tracing their numbers, identifying numbers, and let me show you what that looks like and how— what I mean by age-appropriate. As you can see, it's just very structured, very plain. It's not cutesy, and this can very well be for a kindergarten student or a 12th grade student. In my classroom, I have students working on Level 0.5 all the way up to Level 3 in both math and language arts, and I want to show you my students using the curriculum with myself and one of my paraprofessionals who teach the curriculum. Keep in mind that we use The curriculum paired with extension activities, hands-on activities to continue to extend the learning with our students. My students love it. It's structured, it's routine-based, and I can often let my students work independently with me monitoring their status while I'm working one-on-one with another student.
Sorry, sorry. Nice job. What time is that? 5 o'clock. Good. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16.
What's this?
5. 5.
Good job. Let's count.
6. And then we need 3 reds.
1, 2.
Your turn. Count. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Good job. What number? 5.
Yes, let's count. 1.
Am I doing it? You count. What's next? You count. 2, 3, 4, 5. You count.
5.
Yes, draw 5. Around and around.
Thank you.
Yes.
All right, here's my sentence. I like to eat ice cream. Can you fix my sentence? Anything else that needs to be fixed? No, because These circles are green, orange, and purple. The colors green, orange, and purple are the adjective. They describe something. All right, here is your first page. You're going to color the nouns yellow. Here's your anchor chart in case you need to refer to it.
Okay.
Noun. Remember, it's a person, place, or thing.
Yes. Yep.
Good. Great job. Now we have one more little section.
Okay.
Remember that a synonym are two words that mean the same, and an antonym, there are two words that are the opposite. So here's number 7. What is the antonym of sad?
Happy.
Correct. What is the antonym of empty? Full. What is the—
full?
Correct. Good job. All right, now you're going to color the missing letter for each alphabet sequence.
B.
Good. Color B. There you go, perfect.
Remember to put your hand on your paper.
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