Functional reading activities life skills

Cooking is an activity often used in the special education classroom. It's a great way to teach life skills, especially fuctional literacy skills. You can easily incorporate recipe reading activities in to your cooking activities. Read more about how my reading a recipe worksheets are low prep and an easy way to incorporate life skills.

In order to develop life long and functional skills, students need to be able to read in different situations. Use this list of 10 ideas to plan your functional reading activities and develop critical skills. Click to read now.

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Functional reading is critical for our older students, but can be tough. In this post I outline the steps for instruction with tools to help.

Worksheets are an easy way to save time prepping lessons but also to make sure you have data without a lot of counting. Find out how in this post.

Teaching life skills to older students is important, but it doesn't have to require hours of printing or prepping. Use these ideas to keep students engaged while practicing important and functional skills using technology. #lifeskills #functionalskills #highschoolspeechtherapy

Teaching vocabulary in special education is crucial! Teaching monthly vocabulary lessons in special education is a great way to cover important vocabulary. Use new vocabulary words during morning meetings, lunch, and other times throughout the day. Use a word wall in your special education classroom. You can use a functional life skills word wall too. Using file folders to teach vocabulary is another great one. Or having literacy centers and vocabulary games setup are helpful too.

In this post you will learn how to build your sudent's reading comprehension with a life skills focus using interactive books.

Functional money skills are crucial to our life skills students independence. Read about the money skills I teach my life skills students.