Free 2nd Grade Special Education Resources

6 File Folder Games

File folder games allow students opportunities to learn to through play. Communication and appropriate interactions are important skills they will need throughout life.

This set provides 6 different activities, however they each follow the same general rules, expectations, and idea. I use this with my kiddos that need practice turn taking, losing (students may lose a desired game piece), cooperation, following directions, matching and so much more. The games are easy in nature, however highly addictive for the competitive kids. This allows for opportunities with students in differing abilities.

The themes for the games are:

Fill the Wagon

Make a cake

Buggy Day

Laundry

Moon Walk

Ice Cream

Rules (some differences in games - this example is the Fill the wagon rules).

Contents & Prep:

• Print/Laminate 1 mat per person, use a expo marker to personalize wagons.  Each player will collect their items in their wagon.
• Print and laminate 4 dogs, 4 flowers, 4 ice cream, 4 bubbles, 1 book, 1 leaf pile - place them in the middle of the game board. 
• Print the game board and glue/laminate to a file folder
• Print and prepare dice (or use your own dice)

*For easy storage of game pieces attach an envelope to the back of the file folder prior to lamination.  Make a small slice in the lamination to release the top of the envelope.  Attach velcro to close.  

Object:  Be the first to collect all the items except the leaf pile in your wagon.   If you have the books or the leaf pile and someone else lands on it you have to give it to the other player.  

Choose your player:  Once you have chosen your player, place them on the board any spot will do!

Directions:  

1. Roll the dice and move your player.
2. Collect the pieces as you go and place them in your wagon.   You may only get one of each item!  
3. The first person to collect 1 dog, 1 flower, 1 ice cream, 1 bubble and the books wins!

For 2-4 players

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Addition to 20: Back to School Theme WorksheetEngage your students in a fun and educational learning experience with this comprehensive worksheet pack!
Designed for Grades 1-3, this resource offers 15 pages of exciting addition problems themed around the back-to-school season. With a total of 300 questions and their corresponding answers.
Perfect for classroom use, homework assignments, or homeschooling, this worksheet pack reinforces essential math skills in an engaging way. Watch as your students' confidence in addition grows while they have a blast solving problems featuring their favorite school supplies!
Key features:
15 pages of varied exercises

• 300 addition problems up to 20
• Aligned with Grade 1-3 curriculum
• Engaging back-to-school theme
• Includes answer key for easy assessment

Designed with precision and care, these worksheets are specially crafted to help children master the art of tracing basic shapes while enhancing their hand-eye coordination. Ideal for parents, teachers, and therapists, this resource simplifies the learning process and encourages repeated practice, ensuring early learners grasp the fundamental shapes with confidence.

Key Features:

Comprehensive Shape Collection: Our worksheets feature all essential shapes – circles, squares, triangles, rectangles, ovals, and diamonds – carefully arranged on two pages. Each shape is presented clearly, allowing children to focus on mastering one shape at a time or progressing to more complex patterns.

Reusable and Eco-Friendly: Professionals can laminate these worksheets, transforming them into durable, wipe-clean surfaces. This eco-friendly approach not only promotes sustainability but also allows for repeated use, making them perfect for classrooms, therapy sessions, or home learning environments.

Expertly Designed for Early Learners: The tracing lines are thoughtfully crafted to guide little hands, promoting proper pencil grip and control. Children will enjoy the engaging process of tracing, boosting their confidence and enthusiasm for learning.

Note: This product includes digital files suitable for printing and laminating. Upon purchase, you will receive instant access to the downloadable worksheets, allowing for immediate use and endless learning possibilities.

"Friendship is Magic: A Social Emotional Learning Book" is a heartwarming guide to understanding the importance of friendship. From defining what friendship is to exploring how to be a good friend to both others and ourselves, this book is a must-read for children and adults alike. Discover the power of kindness, listening, and support in forming meaningful relationships. Learn how to show appreciation for your friends and nurture these special connections. With valuable lessons on love, support, and laughter, this book is a gem for anyone looking to strengthen their social and emotional skills. Friendship truly is magic!

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My 3-digit and 4-digit addition worksheets with word problems are designed with spacious layouts and inclusive features for optimal student accessibility.

Tired of modifying resources? My worksheets are tailor-made for special education students, providing ample space for writing and inclusive features to support diverse learning needs.

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Students will read and sort words based on common vowel pair sounds ea, ai, and oa. Visuals are added as prompts to help the students remember the sounds.

Sight Words

Do you need NO TECH teacher and student-friendly sight word tracking and assessment system to progress monitor your first grade and second grade students’ high-frequency words?

I see you with your hanging files, manilla folders, and clear view binders!

These no tech progress monitoring tools will simplify and organize your assessment process so you can quickly and efficiently collect the data you need without having to pull out a computer or Chromebook!

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The First 300 Fry Instant Words make up 65% of all written material. These words should be mastered by the end of second grade. Even if you are not explicitly teaching the Fry Instant Words, an improvement in the students’ ability to orthographically map these words should be evident throughout the school year.

This product includes progress monitoring for words 101-125 of the SECOND HUNDRED INSTANT WORDS (set 1). Words 101-125 are displayed in an easy-to-read font and in a different order on each probe.

Print and go! No searching your drive for files and graphs!

Manual line graph prints on the front of each set of student probes. Just like the old DIBELS!

Use a ruler and those fancy gel pens you love so much!

What is included in the zip file:

• One PDF file with student probes (Fry Instant Words 101-125)
• One PDF file with assessor probes (Fry Instant Words 101-125)

This product is also included in the complete set of the first hundred instant words!

Sample Goals:

The student will demonstrate an improvement in their ability to recall the most common regular and irregularly spelled words as measured by a curriculum-based measurement in high-frequency word recall from a baseline score of 23% correct to a goal score of 95% correct by June 6, 2022.

When given a curriculum-based measurement depicting 25 regular and irregularly spelled words, the student will read the words with 98% accuracy in 4 out of 5 trials.

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This Fall Pumpkin-Themed Errorless File Folder Game is designed for early learners and special education classrooms, offering an engaging, no-fail learning experience. Perfect for students with autism and other developmental needs, this resource uses the principles of errorless learning to build confidence and essential skills in a structured, supportive environment.

What’s Included:

• Colorful pumpkin task cards

• Two types of worksheets:

  • Table format: Pumpkins are placed in clearly defined boxes, helping students match colors and shapes in an organized manner.
  • Randomly placed pumpkins: A more flexible layout where students can freely attach pumpkins, reinforcing the idea that there are no wrong answers.

• Both worksheets include optional gray dots to guide pumpkin placement with Velcro.

Key Features and Benefits:

• No Wrong Answers: Designed with errorless learning in mind, this activity allows students to practice matching and attaching pumpkins without the pressure of making mistakes. Every response is correct, boosting their confidence and enthusiasm for learning.
• Left-to-Right Task Completion: The activity encourages students to complete tasks in a left-to-right sequence, an important foundation for literacy and math development.
• Hands-On, Tactile Learning: The use of laminated file folder games with Velcro and detachable pumpkin cards makes this a fun, interactive way for students to engage in the activity. It promotes fine motor skills and sensory involvement.

How to Use and Prepare:

1. Print and Laminate the colorful pumpkin task cards and corresponding worksheets with pumpkin outlines for durability.
2. Add Velcro: Attach Velcro dots to the back of the colorful pumpkins and on the worksheet. For worksheets with gray dots, place the Velcro over these dots to guide students on where to attach the pumpkins.
3. Organize: Set up the worksheets in a file folder and store the detachable pumpkins in a clear pouch or pocket for easy access and storage.
4. Use: Introduce the activity by guiding students to detach and reattach the pumpkins, explaining that there is no wrong way to complete the task. Whether used for independent work or as part of a group activity, this file folder game promotes success and engagement.

This resource is ideal for special education teachers, therapists, or parents seeking a structured, error-free activity that supports early learners in building essential skills through hands-on, interactive play.

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Are writing sentences a struggle for your students? This winter-themed sample set provides an enjoyable and meaningful way for students to learn how to write complete sentences. By cutting and pasting scrambled words, students can form complete sentences with proper capitalization and punctuation. Pictures and sight words are included to help guide students in constructing the sentences, and there is also space to practice writing the sentences independently. As a teacher, this engaging worksheet set is a valuable addition to enhance your instructional toolkit for teaching pre-writing and writing skills.

Remedial activities, small group lessons, introduction to reading or spelling, as well as functional ELA time are great ways to incorporate these worksheets. These worksheets are in both color and black and white for easier printing.

This is a great addition to any early elementary ELA curriculum, ELL/ESOL as well as Functional ELA curriculum for life skills (any age)! This is also a great addition to a homeschool writing unit!

❀ What's Included:

3 3-Letter Winter Worksheets in Color

❀ How To Use:

Whole Group Instruction

Small Group Remediation

Individual Packets

Progress Monitoring (Reading Key Words from Flash Cards or you can circle challenging words on the worksheets)

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This is a four page resource which includes 3 pages of an activity which can be used individually or in a group setting to explore bullying, what it is, the impacts and what to do when you are being bullied or witness it.

This resource also includes facts about bullying, an anti-bullying pledge script activity and a one page poster of five ways to handle a bully.

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In this product, students will write about experiences in for which they feel gratitude and expand upon that experience. If you wish to purchase the full product, a link is included on the last page of the product.

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Use this FREE data collection form to gather data on what tangible items or activities are motivating for your students! This data helps you determine areas of interest, ideas for social skills/ play skills time, and creating a token economy or choice board with reinforcements that are motivating for your student! Great to use during play or play centers at the beginning of the year within a special education classroom. This can also be used throughout the school year when more motivators are needed!

These surveys are perfect for special education elementary and early childhood age students with the following needs:

• Intellectual Disabilities
• Autism

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Christmas Smiley Face Behavior Chart Editable

Help your younger students navigate their behavior journey with the Christmas Smiley Face Behavior Chart Editable! This tool breaks the day into sections, allowing students to reflect on their choices by coloring a happy, straight, or sad face for each time frame. With its engaging autumn theme, this chart fosters self-awareness and makes behavior tracking simple and enjoyable.

Why Choose This Chart?

• Perfect for Younger Students: The smiley face visuals are easy to understand and ideal for younger elementary-aged learners.

• Encourages Reflection: Students can evaluate their behavior and see their progress visually throughout the day.

• Simple and Effective: Provides clear, straightforward feedback without overwhelming details.

• Flexible Formats: Available in digital and printable versions to suit your classroom needs.

How to Use

1. Set Up the Schedule: Input or write in the daily schedule.
2. Student Monitoring: Have students color a happy, straight, or sad face for each time frame based on their behavior.
3. Celebrate Growth: Use the chart as a tool to encourage discussions about behavior and celebrate achievements.

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Download the Christmas Smiley Face Behavior Chart Editable today to engage your students and foster positive behavior with a fun, Christmas-themed tool!

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Students that have difficulty using traditional coloring methods like, crayons or markers, will enjoy the use of Dot Stamp markers as a new coloring tool. 

OT Therapeutic tip: This activity promotes eye hand coordination while using vision to guide the hand for accurate stamping on the circular dot. 

Please enjoy these Fall inspired characters as a fun, seasonal Dot Stamp marker activity! 

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This is a free sampler of my Vocabulary/World Wall Cards and includes pages from six of my Vocabulary resources: Transportation, Emotions and Feelings, Fall Holidays (Halloween is included here), Fruit, On the Farm, and Summer. This is a great way to try out the vocab/word wall cards to see if they're a good fit for your classroom or homeschool!

These are perfect for centers, flash cards, vocabulary word walls, and more! Low prep...just print, cut, and laminate. Also includes a write and wipe version of the cards so you can laminate them and use them in writing centers! The On the Farm and Summer pages are the "write and wipe" version and are perfect for working on prewriting. All full vocab sets comes with both a regular and write and wipe version of each card.

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This Free Functional Numeracy Skills - Winter Counting Circle Card set is the perfect resource to get you started with task box activities in your classroom! Students count the number of winter images they see with a prompt. When they have mastered that level, they can count the number of winter images with no prompt.

These activities can be used with photo boxes, file folders, zipper pockets, plastic bins, or any other organizational system that you are using in your classroom.

Task box label included so that you can easily track and choose activities for students.

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Are you currently teaching about Winter?

This Reading passage is created with picture support for non-readers or low level ESL students.

This short passage tells all about Winter's weather and activities. Students can read successfully by using the symbol/picture supports to guide them.

NO PREP, Just print & it's ready to use!

If you enjoyed this resource, check out my other picture-supported reading passages!

Winter with Cut & Paste

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Download this FREE Play Doh Count File Folder Game for your small group math and independent work stations! This NO PREP file folder game includes 10 counting problems up to 8!

This resource is perfect for students in autism unit and MD classrooms.

Simply:

• print single sided in color
• cut game pieces and glue one match to a file folder
• laminate the remaining set
• use velcro to create match game

Easily engage your young learners and use this resource for years to come!

Save your prep time and grab this fun file folder game today!

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I created this worksheet to go along with UFLI for students who need additional practice with the focus letters, practicing heart words, and reading words.

Directions: Roll the dice. Read the word. Color the box.

Includes:

Letters: A, a

Heart Words: the

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This is a NO PREP, print and go resource!

This resource includes:

• 2 different worksheets
• 2 example worksheets
• 1 color in the money worksheet
• 1 circle the money worksheet

For the full versions of this resource click below:

Dollar Up $1 & $5

Dollar Up $1, $5, $10

This resource is designed to help students practice using the “DOLLAR UP” strategy. Students are provided with visually engaging REAL product images with price tags and are asked to identify how much money is needed and to circle or color the correct amount of money.

This resource is great for tracking IEP objectives for life skills and vocational skills.

How to use this product:

•Print out and have students complete as a worksheet/ workbook.

•Print & laminate for repeated use for fast finishers.

•Project pages onto the board to complete as a class. Havestudents take turns coloring or circling the correct amount of money.

•Project pages onto board and have student use the cut out or laminated money to present the correct dollar up amount needed for each question.

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