Your special education middle school students will love exploring these community and safety signs short stories to support reading comprehension and visual literacy. Perfect for reading centers, you can teach and share the reading passages then have your life skills students answer the questions and talk about the community signs and safety information included on each page.
 
Who is it for?
Middle School Special Education
Reading Centers in Special Education
Resource Room
Pathways students
Transition Education
Teens who are learning to be independent in the community with support
 
Why teach community and safety signs?
Community and safety signs are an important part of visual literacy and build stronger independence skills. Help your students in middle school special education to understand how to find key information in the community, follow safety warnings and understand how text and symbols work together to create meaning.
 
Teaching tip
Students love printing and pasting these short stories into a scrapbook or large notebook. They can paste the story one side and the questions on the other. Encourage discussion about the signs included with each story.
What to do
Download, print and use the stories and activities with your class or group.