Video of Mystery Arctic Animals Animated Step-by-Step

Video of My Little Wagon - An Animated Step-by-Step Resource

This video simulates the interactive use of the Animated Step-by-Step resource,  My Little Wagon.  This resource is a available from Teachers Pay Teachers in 3 formats: Regular (no symbol support), PCS and SymbolStix.  Both complex (Reg, PCS, SymStix) and simple versions (Reg, PCS, SymStix) are available. The Complex versions simultaneously target several descriptors  (e.g. big red ball vs big yellow truck); the Simple versions  target one item at a time, e.g. just size, or just color, or just the requested item. 

 

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Video of Goldilocks & the Three Bears - An Animated Step-by-Step Resource

 

Goldilocks and the Three Bears is available from Teachers Pay Teachers in 4 formats: Regular (no symbol support), PCS (Tobii Dynavox), SymbolStix (n2y) and VI (a high contrast version designed to better address the needs of students with visual challenges, although it does seem to work equally well with some students on the Autism Spectrum)

 

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Video of Little Red Riding Hood - An Animated Step-by-Step Resource

 

This Little Red Riding Hood Animated Step-by-Step Resource can be purchased in Teachers Pay Teachers in 4 formats: Regular, PCS, SymbolStix and VI.

What Happened to the Wolf?

 Fairy tales (Goldilocks & the 3 Bears, The Three Little Pigs The Gingerbread Boy, The Little Red Hen, Little rRed Riding Hood) have considerable longevity and although the story line may vary somewhat with time,  the moral lessons remain intact. 

 

Little Red Riding Hood is the most recent addition to my roster of Animated Step-by-Step Fairy Tales ... joining the ranks of The 3 Little Pigs and Goldilocks & the 3 Bears.

I often struggle with the issue of incorporating 'death" when rendering an Animated Step-by-Step for preschoolers. In Little Red Riding Hood, for example, … What happened to the grandma? Did the wolf eat her or did she escape? In my version she conveniently escaped with her walker … Did the woodsman kill the wolf or tranquilize it and take it to another part of the forest? Although my version, includes a page depicting a dead wolf with a victorious woodsman, this page can be easily altered if you want a 'kinder, gentler' story line. 

There are two options for the 'kinder, gentler' version:

Option 1:

1.     Select the grouped graphics (woodsman + dead wolf + Red Riding Hood) 

2.     Sub-select the wolf within the group (click on the tongue).

3.     Delete the wolf and you will find a log conveniently hidden beneath the wolf. 

O    Option 2:

Just swap out page 14 with the  'kinder' page at the end of the resource. I'm sure most of 

you will go with option 2, but I couldn't resist the urge to impart a technical tidbit. Truth be known, 

I realized (after the fact) that it would be much simpler to just add a duplicate page to be swapped.  : ) 

The phrase 'and came to her rescue' still holds true  … you just don't know the fate of the wolf. : )

Little Red Riding Hood is available from TpT in 4 versions, Regular, PCS, SymbolStix and VI.

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Using the Hide Slide Feature of PowerPoint

The Shapes Song is a resource that highlights a variety of simple (circle, oval, square, rectangle, heart) and complex (pentagon, hexagon, octagon) shapes using the tune, I'm a Little Teapot.  

The resource provides crucial information about each shape. Later in the resource, it tests a student's ability to identify shapes using a three choice array.

As a final step students are invited to name (or find) various shapes in an array of rings and a display of objects.  The latter sets the stage nicely for a 'shapes hunt' throughout the home or classroom environment. 

This resource is optimized from tele practice. Items can be indicated by color or alternately the pen tool of powerpoint can be used to number the choices or the facilitator can perform partner assisted scanning, i.e., This one? (point) ... This one? (point) or This one? (point)

Now you might be thinking ... circle, oval, square, rectangle, heart ... yes ... but complex shapes are too advanced for my students. Rather than simply surfing through the 'extra slides', consider using the hide slide feature  under Slide Show on the PowerPoint Menu Bar. The 'hidden slide' will appear greyed in the slide listing on the left. This is definitely a 'more eloquent' solution to slide management. 

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The ABC's of Alphabet Knowledge & Phonological Awareness

Wow!  Don't miss out on this excellent resource. Caroline Musselwhite, Deanna Wagner and Gretchen Hanser have just posted a 92 page resource chocked full of wonderful suggestions for enhancing alphabet knowledge and phonological awareness.  This resource is available through TpT  and is being offered at a spectacularly low price.  Click on the image below to link to the TpT site.