This curriculum unit CD has been re-designed and is ready for use in a variety of early childhood settings, from Head Start to ECSE! Built around the common Springtime theme, Growing Things, this unit features 12 instructionally rich activities that can be embedded throughout your daily instruction, along with accommodations to help include children with special needs. Activities are designed to address Virginia's Foundation Blocks for Early Learning and helpful tips and forms are included to assist you in embedding student IEP goals throughout your instruction.

This curriculum unit is designed for use in the preschool special education classroom. In this interactive story, children will imitate animals with a variety of body movements. Children enjoy the repetitive text throughout the story while learning body parts and silly animal motions. Included in this TACtic packet are suggestions for small group activities, finger plays, songs, related literature, gross motor activities, and learning center props. A list is included of curriculum resources that are available from the T-TAC ODU library and on the Web.

Activities are provided in this TACTic that will assist students to generate mental images and create graphic representations in order to better comprehend information they are trying to learn.

This CD will walk you through the process of creating PowerPoint activities for the classroom. Intended for the novice PowerPoint user, this tutorial will teach you how to use text boxes, clip art, sound, photographs, and much more.

Communication and unconventional verbal behaviors, such as echolalia, that interrupt verbal language are reviewed in this TACtic. Also reviewed are communication systems that can be used for non-verbal students and methods to assess which system is best for an individual student.

This story about a little girl who goes to the store with her father to buy flowers to plant in the flower box of their city home for her mother's birthday. This literature-based curriculum packet contains suggestions for small group activities, fingerplays, songs, related literature, recipes, gross motor activities, and learning center props. Included is a list of curriculum resources from the T-TAC ODU library as well as resources available on the Web. Pictures using BoardMaker that support the story are also included.

This TACtic provides guidance in choosing the right assessment tools for screening for challenging behaviors.

Provides information that your program can use in selecting the tools most appropriate to meet the needs of the children and families that you serve.

This TACtic gives direct instruction in specific social skills that produce the best outcomes.

The goal of social stories, as developed by Carol Gray, is to increase positive behav-ioral responses by teaching students appropriate behaviors in various social situations. This video, with Mary Wilds, T-TAC ODU Specialist, provides numerous examples of social stories created by classroom teachers that will inspire viewers to create their own stories for individual students. The accompanying information packet includes several social stories that can be duplicated for teacher use. (2CD set)