Functional task boxes for special education

Do you use task boxes in your special education classroom? If you don’t, check out this blog post for 8 ways to use task boxes for special education. You can use task boxes for one on one instruction, classroom centers or stations, with early finishers, with morning work and much more. There are so many benefits to including this special education activity into your lesson plans. Use these task boxes during independent work stations or homework today!

Who is prepping more work boxes this summer? I just love getting new ideas, especially for our older life skill students! Christina Bailey, a transition life skill teacher, offered to share a bunch of her work boxes on my blog! Thank you Christina! Christina works with transition aged students (19-26 years old) with severe cognitive and/or health impairments. Her school serves students from multiple school districts within the county who learn best in an alternative placement. Are you ready?…

Try this Mailing A Letter FREE valentines day kids activity for teaching life skills. This is perfect to use at home or in the classroom. This would be fun for a community helpers theme! #lifeskills #valentinescraft

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DIY Task Boxes You can spend a fortune, literally a fortune, on meaningful task boxes for your Vocational Class, Autism Unit or Self-Contained classroom… believe me. So learn more about making your OWN vocational work task boxes DIY-style! Read more...

From developing fine motor skills, letter and number recognition, sight words, sorting, sequencing, reading, and math, these task boxes for autism tasks will help develop important life skills and beyond!

This free Community Signs Task Box is perfect for helping students in special education gain a better understanding of the world around them. Use this in your independent work library to give students a fun activity that can give you 1:1 time with individuals. This freebie has two levels that will challenge your students' understanding of signs. Pair this with some great books on community signs to help your students with special needs understand more on the topic. #SpecialEducation…

At the beginning of the year, I am always that hot mess teacher; HOWEVER, there is always one thing I make sure I have running smoothly by the end of September... independent work stations. Without independent work, SPED teachers would literally never get anything done. Plus, work boxes are a great way for students to

I've been a little MIA, but I wanted to share the latest task boxes we made in our classroom! The cool thing about these is they are all made with cheap supplies from the Dollar Tree! We are focusing on increasing our supply of "put in" or level 1 task boxes because we have a lot of younger kiddos this year who need them. These are checkers pieces from a checkers game. Cute smiley face pencil sharpeners! Tip: hot glue the pencil sharpeners shut so you don't have any mishaps ;) All of this…