500 Products!

I’ve finally reached the milestone of 500 products in the Bloom Where You are Planted Store on the Teachers Pay Teachers Site. Whew!

As the number of products increase, it has become more challenging to track down a particular title, so I would like to remind you of three options at your disposal.

1. Search store:  If you know the name of the ASbyS resource this is the easiest way to track down a title 
2. Custom Categories: This option is great if you are looking for a specific category such as a Recipes or resources that use SymbolStix or Bundled options that provide a substantial savings. 
3. Sort by: This option is helpful if you are interested in looking at Best Seller or Most Recent options.

Animated Step-by-Steps are animated PowerPoints designed to address literacy, language, AAC and a host of academic goals. Each page includes a series of animations. Read the text up to the star … click … and see an animation of what you just read. 

Hope you can spare a few minutes to check out these engaging resources. 

Use the button in the upper right to navigate to the TpT store. 

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Spotlight on Literacy

All Animated Step-by-Steps® expose students to print and provide numerous ‘teachable moments’, especially when using the pen tools of the interactive whiteboard. Lately, I’ve become interested in developing resources that offer a greater emphasis on literacy. Here are six fun ASbySs that offer a greater literacy emphasis.

Betty Botter is a great resource for exploring how vowel variation can alter pronunciation and meaning. “Betty Botter bought some butter. But she said the butter’s bitter. If I put it in my batter. It will make my batter bitter” etc.

Apples & Bananas also explores vowel variation using a nonsensical chant that varies the line, “ I like to eat, eat, eat apples and bananas” … I like to ote, ote, ote, o-pples and bo-no-nos.

CVC Mystery Balls is a guessing game. A colored ball rolls on the page. An auditory clue is provided. The contents of the ball is then revealed, e.g. cat/’cat’ and students are encouraged to provide the CVC letters for the mystery item. The final animation provides the correct CVC print.

Mystery Animals is similar to the former but targets the names of zoo animals and farm animals. A colored ball rolls on to the page and an auditory clue is provided. A print cue is also provided with only a few print cues inserted, e.g. z __ __ __ __. The mystery animal is then revealed, e.g., zebra / ‘zebra’ and students are invited to fill in the missing letters of the animal’s name.

B-I-N-G-O & Friends  provides visual support for the Bingo Song and extends that framework to a variety of other farm animals (Cat-Kitty, Horse-Winny, Cow-Bessy, Goat-Lucky, Pig-Porky, Goose-Gammy, Duck-Daffy, and Chick-Jazzy).

Beat the Clock is a variation of the ‘hangman game’. Students are given 12 chances to guess the letters of a mystery word, i.e. __ __ __ __ __.  An alphabet chart is provided to strike off the letters used in the game.

All six resources are available in three formats (Regular, SymbolStix, PCS) from the Teachers Pay Teachers site. They are also available as a Literacy Bundle, offering six resources at a 20% discount. 

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©2017 Carol Goossens’, Ph.D.

Augmentative Communication Consultant

Speech-Language Pathologist

Special Educator