Reading and writing lesson Ideas for a level K - nonverbal ASD student

I have compiled a list of links to the items that have helped my son make leaps of progress this year. One item we utilize a lot is the magnetic white board. We use these items on the white board with reading lessons, felt board, and hooks. We use them during reading lessons with several specific items. one specific lesson we have repeated over and over using a different book but the exact same plan just evolved around the particular book. I will map out an example of the plan. it can be adapted for every book available.

You need The Tonie box, an educational tonie ( we will use Eric Carle hungry caterpillar for this example), The books that go with this tonie. ( The very hungry caterpillar, The very busy spider, The very quiet cricket )Felt board pieces for each book that has them (only the caterpillar had a set from this series) Magnets from the books that have them. ( caterpillar & spider combo, cricket) Then you hit pinterest! Find projects and printables to use with the setup. Here are a few we used with the caterpillar. Eric Carl Website, color pages, more color pages.

There are probably 100 or more great paint and craft ideas for this book in there, but that overstimulates my little guy, so we did not use those. If your child can cut and paint without going wild, definitely add some of those to that week’s lessons. We had fruit salad using the fruits in the caterpillar book, and I helped him with peeling and chopping the fruit himself. Vital life skills lessons in that. We also got a butterfly kit where you get a caterpillar and watch it become a butterfly. I will say that particular book does not lack great lesson options.

Setting up for a book each week as their reading and craft lessons, and even work on math… that caterpillar progressively ate more each day, is a perfect way to engage the harder-to-reach child.

Other books with tonies available that we found almost all of the same resources for on Amazon were Brown Bear, The Mo Willems tonies, The gruffalo, Willie Wonka ( I’ll make a whole entry on this one for sure we did so much) Velveteen Rabbit, Pete the Cat (there are two pete the cat ones with different books I got them all we are having a pete month soon) The pout pout fish, there are more… I will make individual posts below on the resources I find for the different books and Tonies.