So it appears that COVID-19 is here for a while and many schools are canceling and they are asking for students to participate in eLearning or distance learning activities.

1. Distance / Home Learning Packets and Strategies
for Special Education
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Apr 12 · 4 min read
So it appears that COVID-19 is here for a while and many schools are canceling and
they are asking for students to participate in eLearning or distance learning
activities.
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This definitely presents a unique challenge for all teachers (and families), and
especially special education teachers who are wondering how in the world am I
going to do that? Here’s a few ideas, including some FREE (and some paid)
resources.
Give Suggested Learning Activities:
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2. Make a BINGO board with suggested activities for parents and students to complete
together.
I love this Homework Choice board that Taylor, a member of our Breezy Special Ed
facebook group, made for home learning days. She was so nice to share her template
if you are looking for something similar! CLICK HERE, then choose “make a copy”
and you should be able to edit your copy.
On a bingo board / list like this you can come up with functional, real things that
students can do at home that they might not otherwise get the chance to do! It will
also help give parents some ideas and strategies to pass the time.
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Send Home Packets:
I know many teachers are scrambling to print at home packets. Let me help! I picked
out a few 2 week resources in my store that I think would be great to use as home
packets.
Search #homepacket in my TpT to get these zoo themed writing, math, and reading
activities for FREE. (The regular price of these combined resources is $14.)
Then all you need to do is:
1. Print by level (there are 3 levels for beginning learners in both the life skill math
and journal sets and 2 levels for the reading comprehension)
2. Staple together
3. Send (or mail or email*) home with your students
*email is not typically allowed but due to these unique circumstances is allowed
If you need more than two weeks, you can also grab these packets at 50% off
Read This: Why 67% of all Grade 4 students cannot read at a proficient level!
Google Classroom:
Wondering how to do e-Learning with your students? Interactive self-checking PDFs
with a Google Quiz might be the answer!

3. All BSE digital resources are extremely VISUAL and require NO READING.
See how to use the BSE Digital Activities in Google Classroom in this video below.
I will be adding more of these digital activities to the bundle during the next few
weeks as well to help with this kind of distant learning. If you own the bundle, all
future downloads will be free (otherwise all new digital activities will be listed at a
heavily discounted price of $1 during the duration of these school closures)
Many companies are making their subscriptions free during this time. Here are a
few that I have heard of and am familiar with.
See a large list of more resources HERE.
Are your students feeling anxious about COVID-19 and school closing / the
possibility of school closing?
There’s so much talk about the virus on the media and no reason for our students to
feel nervous because that doesn’t help anything!
I wrote some social stories (available with or without symbols) to help your students
know:
All in a non-threatening, not scary way.

4. Knowledge is power! Download these free COVID-19 resources HERE!
Free Video Reveals: At What Age Can You Start Teaching a Child to Read?
Visual Schedules:
Widgit Online offers a free 21 day trial that would be perfect for creative visual
schedules for kids to use at home to help provide some structure and predictability

5. in each day.
Widgit Online is very user friendly. You just type and the symbols appear! They also
have templates you can use to make it even easier.
Here is a sample one I created:
What else are you doing toprepare your students?
We have so many great ideas and discussion going on in our BSE Insiders group on
facebook. Now stay calm, stay healthy and print those Join us.
free and discounted resources! ;)
As always, please let me know if there is any other way I can help.
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Originally published at http://www.breezyspecialed.com on April 12, 2020.

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