Autism Homeschool Success

Here are some free resources that you can use to practice skills such as months of the year, days of the week, writing the date, using a calendar, etc. Starfall Interactive Daily Online Calendar (It automatically updates each day). The link above is to the January 2026 date pages. To access the other months, just swap out the name of the month (and year if needed) in the URL:

The term, "Community Helpers" refers to the people in our communities who provide services that help keep us safe, healthy, and supported, such as firefighters, doctors, and mail carriers. Many community helper units are designed with younger learners in mind and often use simplified or cute cartoon-style visuals. While these materials work well for younger kids, older learners may benefit from resources that use more realistic images and a more age-appropriate presentation.

One of my favorite teaching approaches is incorporating student interests into learning activities. I've had many students who love trains, so I make a lot of train activities. Here are a set of of printable books and reading passages, each with accompanying worksheets for working on reading, literacy, and language skills for students. Both the books and the passages have additional worksheets that go with them. The types of skills taught using these packets include: Sight W

Digraphs are an important part of early reading instruction, but they can be confusing at times. A digraph is two letters that work together to make one sound , such as sh in ship, ch in chop, or th in thumb. Unlike blends, the individual letter sounds in a digraph cannot be heard separately. For beginning readers, especially students who benefit from explicit, structured instruction, digraphs often need to be taught clearly and systematically. In this post, I’ll share pr

If your child or students are working on paragraph writing, I wanted to share some strategies and printables to help make it easier and more effective. Here are two simple strategies that I frequently use.  Graphic Organizers and Visual Supports Research Examples:  Delano (2007); Asaro-Saddler & Bak (2012). Overview:  Graphic organizers help students visually map out topic sentences, details, and conclusions before writing. Possible Examples: “Hamburger” or “Oreo” paragraph t

If you're using a math curriculum, I wanted to show activities you can use before starting the division units. For many of my homeschool tutoring students, these activities helped give them a foundation in some of the concepts and vocabulary associated with division that were confusing at first. I find it helpful to either teach or review them before starting division. Concept 1: Division as Sharing Your curriculum will likely cover this topic at least briefly, but I also lik

I've been seeing so much discussion about Miacademy in groups online, and several of my homeschool tutoring students use it as well. I wanted to learn more about it, so I reached out to Miacademy with some questions. They were kind enough to send me these responses. I hope they're helpful when selecting a curriculum for your child! Can you tell me a little about Miacademy and how families are using it for homeschooling? Miacademy is an online homeschool program for studen

Click here to purchase this book from bookshop.org , which supports local bookstores! Have you ever used a social story TM (often called a “social narrative”) to help your child feel more at ease before a dentist visit, an outing, or a family gathering? If so, you’ve likely seen how powerful these simple stories can be in helping kids understand what to expect in a new or different situation. While many parents and teachers use social narratives to help improve behavior (th

A morning work binder in is a personalized, structured activity binder designed to help students start their day with predictable, meaningful tasks. These binders typically include individualized activities that build academic, functional, and behavioral skills. The activities in a morning work binder are often skills that a child can do independently, including review of things already learned. They can also include activities about daily events, such as the month, date, wea

Imagine being given this paragraph to read: In the post-inflationary universe, non-linear scalar perturbations—especially in models with a blue-tilted spectrum—can significantly enhance small-scale power, potentially leading to primordial black hole formation during horizon re-entry. These effects, combined with second-order tensor mode contributions and evolving background parameters like the sound speed and equation-of-state ww, challenge standard predictions of CMB anisotr