Can you believe it is already March? It shocks me every year! In our classroom, there has always been two big celebrations each March... Read Across America Day and St. Patrick's Day.  Our focus each year for Read Across America is Green Eggs and Ham. In my first year of teaching, this was a favorite of one of my students with limited communication. He just LOVED the book and had memorized each page. We all loved to have him read it to us because it was so wonderful to hear him say so much! So from that point on Green Eggs and Ham has always been a mainstay in my room. Over the years, I added more and more activities that we could do with the story so that we could address IEP goals and meet all the needs of my students including practicing vocabulary and building sentences using a communication board, velcro pieces, or our trusty classroom GoTalk! I also created lots of comprehension activities so that I had something that fit the needs of each student. We worked on wh-questions, ......

Download my FREE PECS Phase 1 Cheatsheet! I look forward to connecting with you and sharing SpEd Spot tips and FREEBIES! Download the PECS Cheatsheet Built with ConvertKit Last year, one of my kiddos has a speech evaluation and it was determined that we should try to use PECS  (Picture Exchange Communication System) with him. I am not sure how many readers have used PECS in their classrooms but I find it to be very complicated! PECS training is only provided locally 1-2 times per year and it is expensive. There was no training available until after school was out therefore i n order to get some information on the system, my paras and I used the OCALI (Ohio Center for Autism and Low Inci de nce) Autism Internet Modules . The modules were very informative (I have used them for other topics as well and I really think they are a wonderful resource). In fact, they contained so much information that I started to worry about being able to remember all of the steps to this ver......