Veterans Day Activities for Special Education PRINT AND DIGITAL

Veterans Day Unit contains over 70 pages of material specifically designed for students with special learning needs, especially autism.

This unit on Veterans Day addresses the importance of this holiday in a simplified but rigorous way for students with diverse learning needs to make meaningful and authentic connections to the material.

Students have many opportunities to engage in repeated information on Veterans Day. This repetition encourages true appreciation of Veterans Day.

Finally, many of the Veterans Day activities and assessments include more than one version, suggestions for differentiation and options for presentation.

This unit is updated annually.

***There are digital activities included as well in the form of google slides. These make great independent learning centers and are differentiated.

⭐Looking for a good literacy unit to go with this holiday?

The Wall Literacy Unit CLICK HERE

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Veterans Day Unit includes:

⭐ This unit comes in 2 complete files. One is in color and one is in black and white.

In the zipped folder you will find:

• 5 day lesson plan
• Veterans Day activities in color
• Veterans Day activities in black and white
• Voice-recorded PowerPoint shows
• 2 book (PowerPoints) to use with activities
• Links and directions to digital activities

Veterans Day Activities:

• 2 Books Veterans Day (also in movie/mp4 format)
  • What is a Veteran: Explores what the vocabulary term veteran really means and who our veterans are.
  • History of Veterans Day: Exposes students to how and why Veterans Day became such an important holiday for our country. Extremely appropriate for older students as well as younger learners.
• Vocabulary board
• Veterans Day circle map star so students can visually organize what they have learned about Veterans Day (digital version)
• Veterans Day Pattern Worksheets (digital version)
• Writing prompt (digital version)
• Veterans Day Cloze Activity that can be used as an assessment (digital version)
• Veterans Day Art Activity
• Poppy flower craft
• Veterans Day Family Involvement Activity: gather information from parents about veterans who may be in their family.

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Much of what I have learned about curriculum development is incorporated in these units. For example, do not be afraid of repetition. It is critical that students with significant disabilities get to experience material over several days to be able to fully assimilate what is being taught. Also, adding visual supports to your printables and class activities helps students be able to pay more attention to the content you are presenting rather than the mechanics of what is expected. Finally, ask questions. Good questions!! Regardless of the material, if we can ask students good questions it will push them to think more deeply than before.