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Making Communication Books guidelines and templates core and fringe

Free resource for creating and sharing books. Bookemon offers educators and K12 schools a secure, private and friendly environment for their students and staff to create and share books online. Bookemon lets everyone make their own books to preserve their memories in photos, drawings, family recipes and stories to share with their family and future generations.

"For many reasons it can be useful to create a paper-based book of your vocabulary. It gives you a backup communication system if anything should happen to your iPad. At different times, in different environments it can be very handy to have a paper copy! Perhaps the AAC user has more success accessing their communication in a book like this! And if we are trying to do more modeling in the AAC app, your paper-based book is just another way to do it!"

Phonemic awareness activities! Phonics activities! Perfect for literacy centers and small group instruction. A little bit of cutting and gluing on your part allows us to provide 15 activities in each area of literacy for use in your classroom.

Home page for resources to make and use to teach.

Page fluffers are helpful in fostering independent literacy skills. Page fluffers are simple adaptations made to books or other reading material that make pages more accessible to turn. Page fluffers increase the space between the pages of a book, allowing those with limited fine motor skills to get their fingers between each page therefore making it easier to turn a page. You can use a variety of different materials to make page fluffers. A fluffer can be glued, taped, or clipped to the corner of each page.

Great blog...and this a a good post explaining Core Vocabulary

Blog post about making different phrases from core vocabulary.

Free educational printables and activities for children pre-kindergarten through first grade.

Making Learning Fun is an early childhood education website filled with free printables designed to do just that, make learning fun! You will find themes-based activities to complement many popular book titles.

Simple adaptations and words of wisdom to make art accessible to all students

"STEAM : How to make moving noodle robots"

TBAG works to promote the design, provision and enjoyment of tactile books for blind and partially sighted children. On this web site you can find advice and information for everyone about designing, producing, using, buying and borrowing tactile books. Guidelines for publishers, authors and illustrators of children's books give advice about small changes that can make a big difference.

5 Free Resources for Making Communication Boards & Visual Supports

"How fast does the wind blow? What makes things sticky? Where do insects live and plants grow? What is the best way to clean up the environment? How do humans measure up in the animal kingdom? So many questions-and so many ways to find answers! In these interactives, use your hands, feet, eyes, ears, brain, imagination and cool tools to experiment, design, test and discover amazing things about the world around you. It's science and it's fun!"

24/7 science is a site where you could spend days exploring the fun world of science, without repeating an exercise. Find out about everyday mysteries like why the wind blows so hard or what makes things sticky. Check out the activities for fun tricks like how to over overfill a glass of water without spilling a drop or how to clean an oil spill. Exhausted? Go on and relax with some fun games - All science-related of course!

Blog post by Chris Bugaj about using the Voice Note feature of Read&Write for composing and written expression.

Free activities to motivate and engage children to learn speech, language, and communication skills. Need a way to help your students with a speech impairment? Check out this site for ideas to help students make the connection between language, literacy and communication.

Adapt playboards and toys to make them more accessible and stable.

Adapt playboards and toys to make them more accessible and stable.

Pacing board ideas

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"Canva makes graphic design amazingly simple for everyone, by bringing together a drag-and-drop design tool with a library of more than 1 million stock photographs, graphic elements and fonts."

"When making your own PowerPoint book, a template can be a helpful time saver. The templates below are for creating ABC books and personal books for students with significant disabilities, including deaf-blindness. The templates have high contrast backgrounds and some have finger spellings. (The finger spelling photos come from Pics4Learning.com. They are free!). The templates have also been setup so that there is an auditory click and some movement when students turn the pages in the book. In all of the downloadable templates, the pages and the text boxes have already been made. Teachers, therapists and/or parents can spend time adding pictures and text, rather then the technical aspects of starting from scratch."