These community helpers worksheets are super helpful for the classic classroom theme!
Community helpers are often talked about in preschool, or maybe kindergarten classrooms. But they are also important to discuss with our older special education students in high school or transition programs.
I created this comprehensive packet to target a bunch of different language and social skill goals, all based on the community helpers theme.
Best of all, it uses real pictures, so it’s appropriate for any student you want to use it with!
Community Helpers Worksheets
I’m pretty excited about this huge 187 page product! It uses 5 real-life pictures of different community helpers (farmer, mail carrier, police officer, doctor, & teacher) and TONS of worksheets that go along with each. If you want to see a video of the assembled product, click here!
I assembled the entire packet in this binder! It’s a super easy grab and go resource for practically my entire caseload.
Every Picture This! product includes a file you can upload to your iPad containing pictures, as well as corresponding worksheets. Worksheets with and without pictures on the top are included for ease of use.
One Packet With 12 Language Areas
One of the best things about “Picture This!” is the variety of skills that can be targeted with a single picture. Use it all day for your caseload! Here are some of the goals I can work on with just this one product (inspired by my IEP goal bank!)
- WH Questions (levels 1-4)
- Given 2-3 picture answer choices, NAME will answer simple WH questions by pointing to the correct picture in 3/5 opportunities given minimal cues.
- Describing
- NAME will describe a pictured object in 3 or more ways in 8/10 opportunities given a familiar visual.
- Word Meanings
- NAME will define age-appropriate vocabulary words using synonyms, by negation (not a…), antonyms, and by example during structured activities with 80% accuracy and minimal cues.
- Sentence Formulation
- Given individual words from a sentence and a familiar visual, NAME will formulate a sentence to describe a picture in 3 out of 5 opportunities.
- Inferring From Details
- Given presented and incidental social scenarios, NAME will make an inference and describe a clue that contributed to his inference based on 4/5 opportunities provided minimal verbal cues.
- Identifying Emotions and Nonverbal Body Language
- NAME will correctly identify how others are feeling and identify at least one specific visual cue in 80% of opportunities given a familiar visual and gestural cues.
- Expected/Unexpected Behaviors
- NAME will use visual mapping to determine 2 or more possible outcomes to a social situation or problem, and determine which outcome would be most appropriate and why in 4 out of 5 opportunities given a familiar visual and minimal verbal cues.
- Think It vs. Say It
- When given a specific behavior, NAME will identify how it makes others feel, the consequences, and how that impacts how he feels about himself with 70% accuracy and a visual or graphic organizer.
- Appropriate Conversations
- NAME will identify how to greet and initiate a conversation, and will appropriately initiate a conversation in 3/5 opportunities provided moderate cues.
You can use this packet in a variety of ways depending on your preferences. Included is:
–1 PDF file containing the pictures – can be printed or uploaded to your iPad to save on ink! (I print them and keep them in the front of my binder)
Worksheets WITH the pictures on the top! Great for sending home for homework! No need for other materials!
Worksheets WITHOUT pictures on the top! Great way to save on ink!
How do you use it?? First, find a picture you’d like to target. There are FIVE different pictures included: mail carrier, doctor, teacher, farmer, and police officer. Note the number in the circle in the upper right hand corner. That number corresponds with the worksheets. For example, the farmer picture and worksheets all have the number 4 in the upper right corner (see below).
This packet is super versatile! I like to laminate many of the pages and reuse them with dry erase markers. You might prefer to pull up the pictures on an iPad and print everything in black and white (it definitely prints great in black and white).
Check out more pictures below.
I like to put pages like the one below is dry erase sleeves!
Below are two worksheets, 1 targeting body language and the other targeting identifying emotions.
Want to see more? I made a quick video tour of the product. Just click here to check it out!
Interested in purchasing this awesome community helpers worksheets packet? Click here to check it out in my Teachers Pay Teachers store.
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This looks like a great resource! I’d love to win!
Congrats on a job well done. Brava!
I WOULD LOVE TO USE THIS FOR OUR TECH CONNECTION SOCIAL AND LIFE SKILLS GROUP!
What a nice product, and you have it so well organized! This would be a wonderful resource to use with students.
This looks awesome! I looked at your preview too on TPT! I would love the chance to use this with my students!
Very comprehensive and reasonably priced as well. You do a really nice job organizing your products!
So thorough and comprehensive!
Once again, you knocked it out of the park with this product! This looks super amazingly wonderful! I would to win it!
This looks like a great product – I appreciate your pointing out its versatility in being printed/staying online/printed in color/printed in b and w, etc. I also love the real photographs – I know there’s research both ways, but I myself prefer the real pictures.
What a complete packet! Always looking for wonderful things for my life skills students.
What a wonderful product! I work at an elementary school with students Prek through 5th and this would work for all ages! The pictures make it adaptable for the young pre/early readers. And it targets so many language and pragmatic areas. Great work!!!
Looks like a fabulous product. I am always on the hunt for realistic photos. I think that students respond so much better to them than the cartoon drawings (especially middle schoolers). I especially like how you made them a PDF so I can pull them up on my iPad, makes the kids think they are looking at some pics I took! 🙂
I would love to have this to use with my students. It would benefit my entire caseload. Wonderful product as always. I greatly admire your creativity!
This would be perfect for SO many of kiddos! I love how many different goals you can target with this product! Looks very comprehensive!
This looks great! I’d love to win it!
This looks fabulous! This binder would be a great addition to add to my resources for my kiddos in the autistic support classes. What an engaging AND functional product!
This looks fantastic!
This looks comprehensive and user friendly. I hope I’m the lucky winner!
Wow! This looks amazing!!
This looks like an amazing resource!! I love the real pictures and all the activities with it!!
Wow! What an excellent resource I can use with my pre-k through 5th grade students!
This looks like such a great product! I work with Pre-K through middle/high students, and I think it would be good for all ages.
This would be so helpful!
This looks like such a useful resource! So many goals could be targeted.
Wow! This looks amazing!!
You’ve given me another summer materials project, thank you!
What an awesome book… I hope I win but even if I don’t, I’ll be purchasing it!
What dedication! This looks amazing. I have always wanted to do a product with real pictures and this one is great!