Overview - SECONDARY INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES - SYMBOL SUPPORTED CURRICULUM BUNDLE
This unique, comprehensive bundle brings together best-in-class products to support students with limited or no reading skills, students who are nonverbal , or who need visual cues, to progress in their learning. Content areas include language arts, science and social studies, math, and life skills, as well as a standards-based comprehensive curriculum framework for grades 6-12.
LANGUAGE ARTS / Environmental Print Series Level One
- Full-year, comprehensive, standards-based language arts curriculum
- Integrates environmental print such as road signs and indoor signs into story lines of 16 books about adolescent characters
- A wide variety of manipulatives enables students to demonstrate comprehension and content mastery
- Text in books and activity sheetsÿ supported by SymbolStix from News-2-You
- Differentiated Instruction-EP's 16 books are offered in two editions included in the program
- Level A: 1 line of text and symbols per page
- Level B: 2 lines of text and symbols per page
- Language Arts Standards
- Concept of print
- Character traits
- Main idea
- Main character
- Setting
- Cause and effect
- Includes a 1-year teacher-based subscription to the EP Interactive Assessment
- Winner ofÿ 2010 Distinguished Achievement Award from the Association of Educational Publishers
- Materials for 5 students using program simultaneously
SCIENCE & SOCIAL STUDIES / Unique Learning System
- 8 thematic units of academic instruction in science and social studies
- 25 ready-to-use lesson plans and student materials for each monthly unit, downloaded from web
- 3 levels of differentiated instruction
- Lessons incorporate reading, language arts, math, and writing into science or social studies content
- Real-world skills interwoven with academic components
- Uses SymbolStixÿ from News-2-You to support text
- Web-based materials include teaching strategies and progress monitoring forms
- Subscription is for 1 license
Please specify Middle School (5-7), High School (8-10), or Transition (10+).
MATH / Word Problems for Nonreaders: Addition, Subtraction and Multiplication/Division
- Basic addition and subtraction problems using real-world examples
- 2 levels of differentiated instruction, both levels include visual representations of problems
- Level 1: Symbol-supported text using SymbolStix from News-2-You
- Level 2: Easy-to-understand sentences without symbols
- 3 binders: one for Addition, one for Subtraction, one for Multiplication/Division
- Each binder includes
- 150 reproducible activity sheets
- Clear teacher instructions
- Answer key
- Progress chart
- Printable, full-color PDF on CD of entire binder
- Winner ofÿ 2010 Distinguished Achievement Award from the Association of Educational Publishers
MONEY-MATH / Banking for Nonreaders with Check Packets
- Basic banking transactions using real-life scenarios
- Clear and simple text supported by SymbolStix
- Activities include:
- Setting up checking accounts
- Writing checks
- Making deposits
- Using an ATM
- Making purchases
- Using a debit card
- Reviewing monthly balances
- Maintaining a check register
- 2 Levels
- Level 1 for students with limited reading and writing abilities
- Level 2 for students with limited reading abilities
- 1 Reproducible Binder
- 320 Activity Sheets
- Teaching suggestions
- Answer key
- CD with full-color PDF of reproducibles
- Set of 10 Check Packets
- Each packet includes:
- 2 check pads with checks and deposit slips
- Check register
- ID card
- Debit/ATM card
- Wallet
LIFE SKILLS / Life Skills for Nonreaders
- 3 board games teach meaningful, contemporary life skills
- Behavior
- Community
- Money & Time
- Components for each game include
- Game Board-clean and colorful to engage students
- 80 Draw Cards-80 different questions divided into 4 categories; cards use text and SymbolStix
- Picture Answer Book-1 answer page for each question; uses text and SymbolStix
- Teacher's Guide-Objectives and optional Teachable Moments
- 1 die and 6 playing pieces
- Use of symbol-supported text allows readers, nonreaders, and students who are nonverbal to play Life Skills games together
CURRICULUM / Academic Curriculum Framework 6-8 and 9-12
- Developmentally Sequenced K-5 Core Skills Framework
- Horizontally and vertically aligns content areas and skills for students with moderate to severe disabilities
- 2 curriculum framework binders
- Middle School (6-8)
- High School (9-12+)
- Framework sequences skill progression in five key content areas
- Language Arts
- Math
- Science
- Social Studies
- Employability
- Strategically integrates repetition of age-appropriate exposures, experiences, and interactions with skills and content to address delays and gaps in student development
- Content-area skills presented in easy-to-read charts to determine level of student's skills atÿ a glance