Literacy
Literacy Activity Sampler
Six varied activities for reading response, sentence building, comprehension, comparing messages, functional reading, and creating accessible text.
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Each seven-page PDF includes the library cover and six selected activities from a 36-activity collection. The samples show different skills and formats so teams can explore the approach without publishing the full volume.
All activities preserve a shared learning purpose while allowing flexible response modes, access supports, and Journey Routes.
Phonics
Phonics Activity Sampler
Six structured activities spanning sound organization, CVC word building, heart words, word ladders, controlled text, and real-life signs.
Math
Math Activity Sampler
Six accessible activities for showing mathematical thinking, number relationships, calculation, time, budgeting, position, and mapping.
Communication & access
Make participation visible and possible.
Use these tools to understand how a learner communicates, make choices, accesses teaching, asks for help, and participates with dignity.
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Communication & Access Toolkit
An elementary toolkit for teaching help, stop, break, yes/no, choice, feelings, regulation, routines, transitions, and communication repair with original My Journey pictograms.
12 pages · PDF and editable Word document
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My Learner Access Passport
A learner-owned planning tool for recording communication, response modes, regulation, access conditions, prompting, safety, and team decisions.
12 pages · Print or complete digitally
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Core Communication & Learning Visual Supports
Printable help, stop, break, wait, choice, learning, regulation, and self-advocacy cards with original icons and space to personalize.
33 pages · US Letter · Cut-apart cards
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Real-Life Visual Library
128 age-respectful photographs covering people, places, routines, communication, safety, travel, health, food, work, and independence.
46 pages · 128 photographs · US Letter
Preview PDF ↗Useful Symbols Bank
A ready-to-use bank supporting communication, routines, emotions, sensory needs, safety, life skills, employment, and community participation.
10 pages · 144 symbols · A4
Preview PDF ↗My Journey Classroom Visuals — Color
A complete set of 84 original My Journey pictograms for academic subjects, communication, community learning, life skills, movement, therapies, work, and transition.
7 pages · 84 original pictograms · Color · A4
Preview PDF ↗My Journey Classroom Visuals — Ink-friendly
An ink-friendly version of the complete 84-pictogram My Journey classroom visual set for economical printing, coloring, and personalizing.
7 pages · 84 original pictograms · Ink-friendly · A4
Routines & participation
Turn the day into something learners can see.
These examples help teams preview what is happening, show when change is coming, and build a shared rhythm without turning visuals into a compliance system.
Preview PDF ↗Weekly Visual Timetable
A weekly overview example for previewing subjects, repeated routines, community learning, and the shape of the school week.
Printable PDF · A4
Preview PDF ↗Daily Visual Timetable
A detailed daily routine example that makes lessons, breaks, transitions, choice, and changes easier to anticipate.
Printable PDF · A4
Download PowerPoint ↗Editable Visual Timetable Slides
Six editable PowerPoint templates using the original My Journey visual system: one weekly overview and five daily routines ready for teams to adapt.
6 editable slides · PowerPoint · A4 portrait
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Special Education Pull-Out Sessions
Two realistic 30-minute literacy and math walkthroughs with explicit teaching, guided practice, access supports, prompt fading, independent checks, fictional data, and a reusable run sheet.
19 slides · View-only PDF and editable PowerPoint
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Special Education Push-In Sessions
Two realistic literacy and mathematics classroom visits showing how a special educator can join, support, fade, and rejoin while preserving the shared target, learner participation, independence, and useful progress data.
30 slides · View-only PDF and editable PowerPoint
Literacy & social-emotional learning
Teach a meaningful skill through an authentic purpose.
These accessible lesson packs model explicit teaching, multiple response modes, age-respectful materials, and transfer into communication and everyday life.
Preview PDF ↗Community Notice Reader
Teach learners to find and use the purpose, date, time, place, cost, and next action in authentic community notices.
24 pages · Literacy lesson pack · A4
Preview PDF ↗Build · Change · Read: Short a
An explicit, systematic, cumulative, and diagnostic short-a CVC lesson with visual schedules, word building, decoding, spelling, and response choices.
26 pages · Foundational reading · A4
Preview PDF ↗Repair Café: When My Message Is Misunderstood
A practical SEL and communication lesson for noticing a breakdown and using try again, show me, stop, or that is not what I meant.
24 pages · SEL lesson pack · A4
Math, planning & recognition
Connect learning to real decisions and progress.
Use mathematics for a practical decision, see the four-year journey at a glance, and recognize achievement without ranking a learner’s worth or access needs.
Preview PDF ↗Weekly Food Budget
An authentic math pack for comparing prices, totaling, estimating, deciding if there is enough, and revising a plan using fictional practice prices.
25 pages · Math lesson pack · A4
Preview PDF ↗Four-Year Learning Journey
A one-page overview of all 24 units, 144 weeks, four program years, and three fluid Journey Routes for planning conversations.
1 page · Planning poster · Letter
Preview PDF ↗Achievement Certificates
Bronze, Silver, and Gold course-completion certificates based on evidence, transfer, agency, context, and learner-led review—not disability or support level.
4 pages · Landscape Letter
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Add the learner’s own words, photographs, language, symbols, access tools, and response modes.
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Introduce the resource during calm practice, model its meaning, and use it consistently.
Honor
Respond when a learner communicates help, stop, break, no, private, or a different choice.
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