Visuals!!

 

 

Visuals!

There's nothing I love more than some nice, crisp, clear visuals!
I think they are so important. I use them and yet when I talk to aides, and teachers, I find they rarely do. I don't know why. They work so well! I recently purchased some new ones and they are gorgeous.

They are from Shuna Patterson Pocketful of Littles

She has some really neat products in her TPT store.

Love her phonemic awareness activities.  

These picture direction cards are ideal to help foster independence, on task behavior, and provide a visual reminders for your littles. No more having students yell out, "What Do I Do Now?", a million times a day.

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There are 40 cards included.

*glue {stick and bottle}, write, share {2x}, trace, tape, read, cut, snack, name, date, draw, paint, count, underline, stop, pack, unpack, turn in, look, listen, independent work, iPad, computer, highlight, color {crayon, marker, color pencils}, sort, clean up, measure, fold, order, match, dab, roll, solve, quiet work, and raise hand.

Visual Supports

 

Visual Schedule

Recently I purchased a new product to help kids and their EA's with a visual schedule. I found this one from the Print Path, and it was so much more than a visual schedule. There are self-regulation supports, and they are editable! Love it. It can be used in so many ways and in so many different classrooms.

14 Sample IEP Goals and Objectives
☞ Self-regulation goals
☞ Classroom participation goals
☞ Recess goals
FIVE Schedule Boards
☞ First - Then
☞ 1ST - 4TH, 1ST - 5TH
☞ Left to right [horizontal], Top to bottom [vertical]
54 Self Regulation Visuals
☞ Strategies
☞ Incentives or breaks
70 Emotions and Associated Behaviors.
☞ Red, Yellow, Green, and Blue
58 School Behavior Supports
☞ Positive classroom behaviors
☞ “Don’t ___” behaviors
13 Self Help Tasks
54 Elementary School Schedule
☞ classroom routines
☞ school routines
36 Preschool Classroom Routines
53 Recess Visuals
☞ Activities
☞ Communication supports


Thank you, Print Path OT, love this product!
 

Visuals for Preschoolers

 

When working with little guys, we need to help them understand routine, and what is about to happen.

First off: why visuals?


When children can see how ideas are connected, they realize how information can be grouped and organized. With visual learning, new concepts are more thoroughly and quickly understood when they are linked to prior knowledge.

Visuals help students understand and therefore, can more easily understand and retains information. Research tells us that the majority of students in a regular classroom need to see information to learn it. These strategies help students or all ages better manage learning objectives and achieve academic success. ... Paired with the brain's capacity for using
images, visual learning strategies help students better understand and retain information. The following are reasons as to why visual communication is essential. It is easier to process a visual signal quickly than to read a sentence of a paragraph full of text. ... Research shows that the brain processes images 60,000 times faster than texts.

Using visuals with preschoolers and children with disabilities is a great place to start.

I recently purchased these Visuals, Cue cards, and I love them.


Using visuals is great for rules and expectations for the classroom and at centres, the bathroom, and another classroom etiquette.



    First - Then activities- for very simple/basic instructions.  To encourage and reward cooperation with this simple technique for helping students complete a required activity before moving on to a preferred activity.

Play To Learn Preschool has somce visuals that you can use in the classroom for expectations, centers and for a first- then visual schedule. I really like them but they are many different options available on TPT.

  

There are even some pictures that can be used at home :)