Sunday, September 8, 2013

Embedding Targets During Meal Times

In my last post I shared how I embedded language/behavior targets for a back to school art activity. As educators, we are responsible for being intentional with our activities and knowing what our goals are for those activities. I don't write traditional lesson plans and instead use curriculum planning sheets to prepare how I want to execute a lesson. Today I am including a curriculum planning sheet for embedding targets during meal times. I keep this posted near the table where the students eat so that my staff and I have a constant reminder of what we can target during meals. It is not necessary to try and tackle every single target for every single meal (unless you are just super ambitious and have very willing students!). Pick the important ones for individual students and work from there. I have curriculum sheets for many other parts of our day but decided to share the meal time one first since I think it can often be a forgotten part of our day for useful language training. It is tempting to take a break and relax during meal times but time is everything in early intervention and we only have so much of it!

Meal Time Planning Sheet can be downloaded here!!!

 

5 comments:

  1. Thank you! Very informative and helpful. All your posts are really helpful. My daughter attends a PAC program in FCPS.

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    1. Thank you :) I am happy to hear I have a parent who is interested in my posts!

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  2. I love this!! I am an SLP working in a preschool class (Autism) beginning to implement an ABA program. Do you have any more of these?? We could use the inspiration! Also, I see you have not posted since May---any other blogs you recommend I could follow??

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    1. I am glad this is helpful! Yes, I have lots of other sheets - please email me at teachearlyautism @ gmail .com

      Today's post includes a cheat sheet for circle time - http://teachearlyautism.blogspot.com/2013/12/circle-time-skill-building-cheat-sheet.html

      Also, I have several posts since this one. Just go to the main site to view them all! There is a curriculum sheet similar to the meal time one with an adapted recipe for hot chocolate here: http://teachearlyautism.blogspot.com/2013/12/hot-chocolate-weather.html

      You can subscribe to receive emails when I have new posts by entering you email address in the top right part of the blog.

      Hope this helps and thank you for commenting!

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