Adapted Books for Special Education – 20 Seasonal Interactive Adaptive Books

Product Description

These interactive adapted books are designed to teach vocabulary and to work for a wide range of ages for students with autism and in special education. Adapted books are great for morning meeting, circle time, small group instruction as well as for independent work and independent reading once they have been introduced to the students.

This set includes 20 adapted books that are appropriate for early childhood and special education students addressing functional skills. Each adapted book includes visuals for students to have and insert into the books as they are read.

This interactive adapted book bundle includes… 

• 5 books for each season – winter, spring, summer, and fall
• Vocabulary with pictures and words that can be matched to the pictures and text on the pages
• Each seasonal set has one photo book and 4 books with illustrations using clip art.

The books have the option to find the matching or corresponding picture or the word to complete the sentence. The picture cards can be stored on an extension page that have matching pictures.

There are 2 options:

1. One with matching pictures
2. One with a blank page with no pictures so you can rearrange them.

Winter Interactive Adapted Books:

1. Winter Clothes in Different Climates – This illustrated book focuses on cold and warm climates during winter by talking about clothing of 2 children and comparing and contrasting the clothes they wear (e.g., Dustin wears a coat. Sarah wears a t-shirt.). At the end of the book, there is a choice board with visuals that the students can use to answer if they live in a warm or cold climate.
2. Winter Sports – This illustrated book focuses on the sports that take place primarily in winter indoors and outdoors.
3. Dressing for Cold Weather – This illustrated book concentrates on the clothes we wear when the weather is cold by helping Sam get dressed.
4. Let’s Make Hot Chocolate – This illustrated book focuses on the process of making instant hot chocolate. It includes a mix of nouns and verbs and includes visuals to support a yes/no question at the end for whether the students like hot chocolate.
5. Things We Do in Winter – This illustrated book targets verbs and depicts common activities that people do in the winter (mostly in snow).

Spring Interactive Adapted Books: 

1. Spring Cleaning – This illustrated book focuses on cleaning materials for spring cleaning the house. At the end of the book, students can choose the yes or no visual to answer “Do you help your family clean the house?
2. Let’s Plant a Vegetable Garden – This illustrated book focuses on the vocabulary related to planting a vegetable garden.
3. Animal Babies – This photographic book focuses on the names of baby animals. The pictures in the book are of the baby animal and the pictures the student matches have a grown animal and baby to help differentiate animals that look similar as babies (e.g., sheep vs. goats).
4. Signs of Spring – This illustrated book focuses on the early signs of spring including snow melting, flowers blooming, leaves turning green. It also includes yes and no for answering a question at the end whether the student likes spring. Some pictures are identical and some are not.
5. Things We Do in Spring – This illustrated book targets verbs and depicts common activities that people do in the spring.

Summer Interactive Adapted Books:

1. What Do You Do on Summer Vacation? – This illustrated book focuses on common activities for summer vacation. It includes at-home activities as well as travel.
2. Going to Camp – This illustrated book targets verbs and depicts common activities that people do at camp or while camping.
3. Let’s Go to the Pool – This illustrated book focuses on the vocabulary related to going to the pool.
4. Let’s Go to the Beach – This photographic book focuses on the things you might see at the beach / shore. The photos match identical photos.
5. We’re Going to the Park – This illustrated book focuses on common activities you might do at a park. At the end of the book, students can choose the yes or no visual to answer “Do you like to go to the park?”

Fall Interactive Adapted Books:

1. What Happens in Fall? – Fall nouns in photos
2. It’s Time for Fall Fun – Illustrated book focusing on fall nouns and verbs
3. Let’s Go Apple Picking – Illustrated book on parts of an apple
4. Going to a Football Game – Illustrated book on nouns related to football
5. From Orchard to Table – Illustrated book with verbs related to picking apples to baking a pie

Check out the preview here!

What are teachers saying…

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “This was an excellent resource to use with my early learners. It provided so many opportunities for student teacher interactions. It was also very highly motivating for my students!! Very highly recommended!” – Janet G.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “I love using these interactive books in my self-contained classroom. This provides students with appropriate vocabulary for discussing activities they can do outside of school throughout the year. I like to use this resource during centers as an independent work activity or small group activity.” – Transition is the Mission

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “This adapted book was great and so easy to put together! Kept my students engaged and ready to learn!! Thank you!” – Annemarie M.

These books include visuals to work with my morning meeting starter kits:

• Preschool*Elementary Morning Meeting Starter Kit
• Middle and High School Morning Meeting Starter Kit

For more adapted books, check out:

• Interactive Adapted Books Category

© Christine Reeve

This product is copyrighted to Autism Classroom Resources-Christine Reeve 2019 for use in one classroom. They may not be copied for additional classes without purchasing extra licenses.