Life skills and special education
Life Skills Task Boxes for Special Education
Functional Skills Task Cards 6-12
- Grades
- Grades 6–12
- Formats
- Google Slides, PDF, PowerPoint
- Pages
- 36
- Answer keys
- Included
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Life skills task boxes built for teens, not little kids. This set of 10 functional skills task card sets gives middle and high school special education students real-world practice they can do on their own: counting money, next dollar up, telling time, reading a calendar, safety signs, menus and receipts, sorting, personal information, daily routines and measuring. Every set comes with a box label, a recording sheet, an IEP data sheet and an answer strip, and every card has exactly one correct answer.
What's included
- Teacher guide: what's in each box, honest prep steps, learning goals and a suggested schedule
- Setup guide: building and storing the boxes, the independent work routine and how each task type works
- Prompting, data and differentiation guide: prompt codes, data steps with a worked example, card levels (Levels 1 to 3 in Sets 2-6, 8 and 10; Levels 1 and 2 in Set 1), smaller versions of the sort and sequence sets, errorless options and sample IEP goal wording
- Standards page and contents
- 10 color-coded task box labels
- Set 1 Count the Money: 16 cards (bills, then bills and coins)
- Set 2 Next Dollar Up & Enough?: 16 cards
- Set 3 Time & Elapsed Time: 16 time and elapsed-time cards (10 with analog clocks, 6 written-time problems)
- Set 4 Reading a Calendar: 12 cards + a full-page calendar mat
- Set 5 Community & Safety Signs: 12 clip cards
- Set 6 Menu & Receipts: 12 cards + a full-page cafe menu mat
- Set 7 Sort It: 20 cards + 4 header cards (needs vs. wants, kitchen vs. bathroom)
- Set 8 Personal Information: 12 clip cards
- Set 9 Daily Routines: 16 sequencing cards (4 routines)
- Set 10 Measuring: 12 cards with true-size inch rulers
- 10 recording sheets (2 per page)
- 4 errorless recording sheets (Sets 1, 2, 5 and 8, all on one page)
- 10 IEP data sheets (card-by-card prompt codes for 6 sessions) + a rotation and progress summary page
- Answer strips for all 144 cards
How to use it
This is a low prep resource: print the card pages on card stock, cut the cards apart and store each set in its own box or zip bag with its label, recording sheets and answer strip. The cutting takes some time once; after that the boxes are reused all year. Use them in independent work stations, para-led small groups, morning work or as quick IEP probes. Every card shows its set and card number, so mixed-up cards go straight back to the right box.
Skills practiced
Counting moneynext dollar upcomparing a price with the money you havetelling timeelapsed timereading a calendarsafety signsreading a menu and checking a receiptsorting and categorizingpersonal informationsequencing routinesmeasuring to the 1/4 inchworking independently
