This resource provides special education teachers, therapists, and parents with practical, easy-to-implement ideas for creating over 80 different work tasks to be used to teach students to work independently and for an established length of time. Examples for work tasks include "Matching pictures to their initial letters", and "Sorting chips by color". Contains classroom and home-tested ideas of addressing skills in six areas: sorting, matching, reading, writing, mathematics, and motor tasks. The ideas are designed for early learners, ages 2-10. • The writer is a special educator with over twenty years experience working with students with autism, and mentoring teachers of children with autism from preschool through the secondary grades. • Contents: Acknowledgements, About this Resource, What are task boxes?, Creating an independent work system, Stuff to save for task boxes, What do you do with the stuff once you get it?, Tricks and tips for task box construction, Task boxes to make: Motor tasks, Matching tasks, Sorting tasks, Reading tasks, Writing tasks, Math tasks, Appendix I: Sample IEP goals, Appendix II: Data sheets for tracking independence. • Written by Kimberly A. Henry. Paperback, 144 Pages, 2005.
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