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 transportation curriculum unit is designed for use in the preschool special education classroom. In this Caldecott Honor Book, bright illustrations show all the cars of a train as it travels day and night through tunnels and across cities. 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.

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.

Granny is snoring as a child climbs on her lap and falls asleep. Various other animals join them. Lastly the flea joins them and sets off a chain of events. This unit provides ideas for adding props to learning centers and small group activities. Boardmakerâ„¢ pictures are included that support children to retell the story.

This story is about a series of different colored animals that ask the question,"What do you see?" The question leads them to the next animal and eventually to a teacher and a group of children who all replay what they see. A great story to practice color identification. 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. (Revised, Fall 2009)

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 has been designed for use in a variety of early childhood settings, including inclusive settings, from Head Start to ECSE! A perfect theme for use during the holidays, Friends and Family is a unit that features 12 instructionally rich activities that can be embedded throughout your daily instruction, along with accommodations for 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 new CD includes information on creating and teaching thematic units. Examples of thematic units for elementary and secondary lessons are included. ASOL objectives from all four core content areas and functional domains are addressed. A printable template is included to assist with creating your own thematic units.

Thematic units are fun for students. This unit provides lesson/activity ideas, printables, and computer activities that revolve around "America's pastime". Reading, math, science, history, community skills, social skills, and many other areas of instruction are addressed within the context of baseball/softball.

This thematic unit was created to accompany the Start-to-Finish version of Treasure Island by Don Johnston, Inc. Activities are presented to teach reading, math, science, history, life skills, music, art, and much more under a pirate theme. Specific ASOLs are referenced.

This curriculum unit features over 100 activities that can be used to teach ASOL History 4. Activity descriptions are presented in lesson plan format. The accompanying Activity CD includes review games, cut and paste activities, assessment options, printable worksheets, and much more. Learning about American leaders such as Washing, Lincoln, Carver, and Franklin was never this much fun!

The Science ASOL Force, Motion, and Energy 2 addresses various types of movement. This brand new curriculum unit presents dozens of creative ways to introduce and reinforce these concepts. Discover new and effective ways to teach your students with intellectual disabilities about motion. Each unit includes and Activity CD full of printables, games, and much more.

Tutorial for learning to make your own electronic books.

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.

An historical overview of Asperger's Syndrome is provided in this TACtic. Social, sensory, and instructional needs for students with high functioning autism are also reviewed.

This professional development module will provide Early Childhood Educators with information about the M-CHAT, a series of 23 questions to identify characteristics of autism in young children. The module also includes an updated article on diagnosing autism spectrum disorder in young children, positive behavior support strategies, information related to seven critical core skills to teach young children with autism spectrum disorders, and samples of visuals created from visual software.

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 TACtic provides teachers with a basic overview of autism. The overview describes how to structure the classroom and provides quick strategies for immediate use as well as a more in depth look at specific strategies for supporting students with autism. Furthermore, a helpful A.M. checklist is provided to assist teachers with preparing for the instructional day.

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

The purpose of collecting data is to provide objective evidence of an educational program's effectiveness and to guide instructional decisions. Teachers can ensure they are providing meaningful instruction by collecting useful data on student progress and then using the data to inform their instructional decisions. This CD contains the following sections that will help to either refresh or increase your knowledge of taking and using data to measure student achievement: Introductory Review: Questions and Answers; Data Collection Tutorial, Types of Data; Make Your Own Data Forms: Guidelines and Samples; and Graphing Data Tutorial.

Dr. Sharon Raver-Lampman of Old Dominion University discusses Routine-Based Instruction and Routine-Based Monitoring. Routine-Based Instruction is a way teachers can embed individualized instruction into their daily routines. Routine-Based Monitoring is a way for embedding data collection into daily activities and routines. Footage from a local teacher's ECSE classroom is included to demonstrate both Routine-Based Instruction and Monitoring. A packet of written materials with examples is provided with the CD.

An exemplary teacher brings the audience into her classroom where she demonstrates recommended practices in early childhood. Highlighted in the video are learning centers and room arrangement, schedules and visual strategies, integrated thematic, literature based curricula and activity based instruction.

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)

This two-part program was taped in several early childhood classrooms throughout Virginia and highlights effective practices for teaching young children with autism. Part One includes information on structured environments, visual supports including visual schedules, structured activities and sensory processing. Part Two addresses communication and social strategies.

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.

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.