First Author
Product Description:
First Author is a writing curriculum that guides educators to teach beginning writing skills to students with special needs including autism. It helps prepare students for the alternate assessment (including DLM, STAAR, and NCSC). It is designed to help students see themselves as authors who have the potential to share and communicate with others.
Main Features:
- Scripted lessons guide educators through the process of teaching writing to students with special needs. It covers a range of abilities from scribbling to writing complete words and paragraphs.
- A comprehensive group of measurement tools monitors writing development, communication, and behavior.
- Guides standards-based IEP goals tied to Common Core State Standards and alternate standards including examples for writing, language, speaking and listening.
- Structured classroom time is broken down through mini-lessons (4x/week), writing time (4x/week), and sharing time (Author’s Chair) (1x/week).
- Guides instructional supports for each student including “writing” tools and communication methods.
- Includes:
- Curriculum Guide.
- Instruction Guide with 80 Mini-lessons and 63 Tip Sheets.
- Assessment Guide (includes standards-based IEP goals).
- Classroom Posters.
- Teacher Resource CD with reproducible tools.
- First Author Writing Curriculum Guide (spiral binder) with an appendix, containing support tools.
- First Author Mini-lessons and Tip Sheets (spiral binder). Posters
- Teacher Resource CD with posters and reproducible tools including a data collection tool, sample parent letters, Meet the Author materials, Author’s Toolkit labels and tabs, communication boards, letter boards, topic boards, Writing Measure form, and PD tips for supporting adults.