Thinking and learning for Special education
Thinking and learning for Special education: 26 free pages to print, play or teach from. No sign-in.
- Peabody BoardTool
A free classroom screen for the projector: a noise meter that grows a garden, clap-back signals, work symbols, groups, scores, timers and the day's plan. Twelve boards saved in your browser.
- Quiz makerMaker
Print a quiz with an answer key in a minute: math facts, sight words, word meanings, a passage's questions or your list. Versions A and B, bubble sheet. Free, no sign-up.
- Attention signals posterPrintable
A free printable attention signals poster with a column for what you say or do and a column for what the class does. Edit the signals, print and post.
- End of year memory pagePrintable
A free printable end of year memory page: a picture box, a favorite memory, what I learned, my favorite book, a hope for next year and a note to next year's class. Print a class set.
- Problem solving steps posterPrintable
A free printable problem solving steps poster for conflicts between students: stop and breathe, say the problem, listen, think of solutions and choose one. Print and post.
- Sequencing organizerPrintable
A free printable sequencing organizer with numbered boxes for first, next, then and last, each with writing lines and a square to draw. Edit the labels and print.
- Top 10 attention signals for substitute teachers (2026)List
Use the class's own signal first: Kelly Education's sub tips say students already know their teacher's cue. Ranked, with price, a limit and how we chose.
Checked 2026-10-30
- Classroom activities from any list: five games on the board and print sheetsTool
Paste terms and meanings, or questions and answers, and play match up, flip tiles, a quiz show, group sort or odd one out on the board, or print a matching sheet or cards. Free, no sign-in.
- Problem-based mathGuide
What problem-based math is: Illustrative Math, Investigations, CGI, Number Talks, Building Thinking Classrooms and Japanese lessons, and a fair account of the explicit-versus-inquiry debate.
Checked 2026-11-06
- Matching game maker: match terms and meanings from your listTool
Turn a list of terms and meanings into a matching game for the board, with a printable matching sheet and cut-apart cards. Free, no sign-in.
- Flip tiles memory game maker from your own listTool
Make a memory game for the board from a list of terms and meanings: flip two tiles at a time to find a pair. Four, six or eight pairs a board. Free.
- 25 transition songs and attention signalsIdea
Twenty-five original call-and-response lines, hand and sound signals, short songs to familiar public-domain tunes and visual cues for transitions, each with when to use it and the grades it fits.
- Getting a room's attention as a substituteGuide
How a substitute gets a class's attention without knowing its signal: asking the class, signals that work in any room, practicing once, and what to do when a signal fails.
- 10 attention signals that work in any roomIdea
Ten attention signals a substitute can teach in the first five minutes and use all day: clap-backs, call-and-response lines, countdowns and quiet signals for any room.
- Solving a word problem anchor chartPrintable
A free math problem solving anchor chart: four steps for any word problem, from reading it twice to checking the answer.
- Picture word sheets for English learnersTool
Free printable practice for English learners: match pictures to words, trace and copy, or fill in sentences from a word bank, with Spanish beside the English if you like.
Checked 2026-11-08
- Attention signals: which one fits the room?Page
Attention signals: which one fits the room?: a short quiz for substitute teachers, three choices a question with a line on why. Nothing is saved. Free.
- Attention, memory and thinking-skill sheetsTool
Printable sheets that practice attention, memory, sequencing, processing speed and visual processing at three levels, made new each time, with answer keys. Nothing to sign in to, and nothing about a child is stored.
Checked 2026-11-08
- Matching learning style to instructional method: Effects on comprehension (2015)Page
Following the test design Pashler and colleagues called for, adults' auditory or visual learning-style preferences did not predict their listening or reading comprehension, and learning from an audiobook or an e-text…
- Test-Enhanced Learning: Taking Memory Tests Improves Long-Term Retention (2006)Page
Students who took recall tests on a passage, without feedback, remembered much more of it two days and a week later than students who spent the same time rereading it. Rereading won on a test five minutes later, and it…
- Math problem solving rubricPrintable
A free math problem solving rubric for K–2, 3–5 and 6–8 word problems: understands the problem, picks a strategy, computes accurately, explains the thinking.
Checked 2026-10-30
- Grandma's Smudged Card: 8th grade reading passage with questionsReading
A fiction passage about problem solving and family for 8th grade, 291 words, with five comprehension questions, an answer key and vocabulary. Print it or read it big.
- A Butterfly's Matching Wings: 1st grade reading passage with questionsReading
A nonfiction passage about symmetry in shapes for 1st grade, 87 words, with five comprehension questions, an answer key and vocabulary. Print it or read it big.
- The Smell That Takes You Back to Grandma's: 3rd grade reading passage with questionsReading
A nonfiction passage about smell and memory for 3rd grade, 162 words, with six comprehension questions, an answer key and vocabulary. Print it or read it big.