Free Adapted Books For Special Education
10 printable interactive books, ready to print, cut, and velcro. Use them as-is or open any book in the free maker and make it your own. No email required. Preschool and kindergarten teachers will recognize them as interactive books; parents often call them velcro books.
Snack Choices
An 'I want' requesting book with eight snack pages, ready to print, cut, and velcro.
8 pages · Free PDF
Sensory Breaks
An 'I need' book for asking for breaks and sensory tools, with eight regulation pages.
8 pages · Free PDF
Feelings
An 'I feel' book with eight emotion pages, from happy and excited to worried and tired.
8 pages · Free PDF
I Spy Colors
A color hunt book: find the one thing that matches each color and velcro it into the sentence.
6 pages · Free PDF
I Spy Classroom Objects
A find-it book for classroom vocabulary: hunt for the named object and velcro it in place.
8 pages · Free PDF
I Spy Halloween
A Halloween hunt book: find the pumpkin, the ghost, or the bat in the scene and velcro it into the sentence.
8 pages · Free PDF
I Am Thankful
A Thanksgiving book: eight things a child can be thankful for, one picture per page, and the sentence 'I am thankful for my family'.
8 pages · Free PDF
I Spy Christmas
A Christmas hunt book: find the tree, the gift, or the reindeer in the scene and velcro it into the sentence.
8 pages · Free PDF
I Spy Farm Animals
A farm hunt book: find the cow, the pig, or the chicken in the scene and velcro it into the sentence.
8 pages · Free PDF
I Spy Zoo Animals
A zoo hunt book: find the lion, the elephant, or the giraffe in the scene and velcro it into the sentence.
8 pages · Free PDF
How to use these books
- Pick the book closest to a real moment in your day.
- Click Customize This Book to change pages in the maker, or print the PDF as-is.
- Print at 100 percent, actual size. The card page includes a 1 inch square so you can check before cutting.
- Build it your way: laminate and velcro, sheet protectors in a binder, or print once and glue.
- Read it together first. The choice column stays in view on every page, so your child can match without turning back.
Want to build your own from scratch? The free maker starts with a blank book and the same picture library.
Open the Adapted Book MakerFourteen printable adapted books with moving picture cards, each in color and ink-saver, US Letter and A4, with a class set of cards, comprehension cards and a data sheet per book, plus a teacher guide.
Frequently asked questions
- Are these adapted books really free?
- Yes. Every book downloads as a free PDF with its pages, picture cards, and assembly instructions included. You can also open any book in the free maker and change the pages before printing. No email is required.
- What do I need to build one?
- A printer and scissors at minimum. The classic build adds a laminator and velcro coins, but every book includes a binder build for classrooms without a laminator and a glue-in version that needs no velcro at all.
- Who are adapted books for?
- Early readers and pre-readers who learn best hands-on: autistic children, AAC users, speech therapy clients, and special education classrooms. Parents use them at home the same way teachers use them at centers, and the reading level stays gentle: one picture, one predictable sentence per page.
- Can I change the pages in a book?
- Yes. Every book opens in the adapted book maker with all of its pages loaded. Swap any picture, change the words, add pages, or switch the sentence starter, then download your custom version.
- Do these work for preschool and kindergarten?
- Yes. The I spy books and the seasonal books are built for circle time and centers: one picture, one predictable sentence, and a card that moves, which is what preschool and kindergarten teachers mean by an interactive book or a velcro book. Special education and speech therapy use the same pages for language goals.
- Which book should I start with?
- Start with the one that matches a real moment in your day. Snack Choices works at snack time from day one; Feelings fits a calm-down corner; the I Spy books work anywhere as a matching game. Requesting books usually get used the most because the child gets what they ask for.