Table of Contents

• 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?
• Task Boxes to Make:
• MOTOR TASKS
• Put blocks in slot
• Pull clothespins off box, put in hole
• Put mini balls in hole
• Pull blocks off box, put in hole
• Pull teddy bears off box
• Put big checkers in slot
• Park cars in spot
• Assemble film canisters and drop in slot
• Put poker chips in slot
• Put coins in bank
• Put facial features on a potato toy
• Block construction
• MATCHING TASKS
• Plastic egg color match
• Clothespin color match
• Puzzle piece outline match
• Blocks color match
• Tile sample color match
• Simple picture match
• Match block pattern
• Memory match
• Shape match
• Border picture match
• Box top match
• Object to photo match
• Lotto picture match
• SORTING TASKS
• 2-Color car sort
• 3-color poker chip sort
• 4-color game piece sort
• 3-way colored beads sort
• Colored straw sort
• Boy-girl sort
• Teddy bear color sort
• Balls and Blocks sort
• Ghosts and pumpkins sort
• Apples and pumpkins sort
• Paint card sort
• Crayon sort
• Plastic utensil sore
• Sort sports cards by category
• File index cards by color
• Same/different sort
• Texture sort
• Category sort
• Sort by size
• READING TASKS
• Alphabet sequence
• Upper-to-lower case letter match
• Word-to-word match
• Word-to-picture match
• Clothespin word-to-picture match
• Blocks-to-color words match
• Paperclips-to-color words match
• Sentence to picture match
• Initial sound sort
• Initial letter match
• Character and setting sort
• 3-part story sequence
• File by first letter
• File words by category
• Alphabetical order on clothespins
• Holiday-to-month name binder
• Opposites binder
• WRITING TASKS
• Trace lines
• Draw lines to match
• Spell name sequence
• Letter match to spell word
• Attach clothespins to spell words
• Simple sentence construction with pictures
• Simple sentence construction with words
• MATH TASKS
• 1:1 Correspondence with pegs and film canisters
• 1:1 Correspondence with cotton balls and ice-cube tray
• Count dots, match to number
• Count sets of items, match to number
• Sequence numbers on strip
• Make sets on a box
• Fill in the sequence with missing number
• Sequence by skip counting
• Size seriation
• Make sets in ice cube tray
• Make sets in cups
• Extend pattern with stickers
• Appendix I: Sample IEP goals
• Appendix II: Data sheets for tracking independence

About the Author

Kimberly Henry holds a Master's degree and Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study from Johns Hopkins University. With twenty years of experience working with students with autism, she is now a Teacher Specialist for a public school system, and an adjunct faculty member at several universities.

Reviews

""While reviewing this book, I immediately recognized some activities that my son did . . . and I remembered how much he benefited from these activities . . . such as sorting and matching, reading, math, and motor tasks. The book also provides IEP goals in an Appendix, which can be a helpful resource for parents.""