Days of the Week Sequence Task Box

About this resource

EVERYTHING INSIDE — 22 pages, 150 type-in fields

• 12 days-of-the-week cards across 3 levels (4 cards each), every card a four-day run of consecutive weekdays with one blank the child fills by working out the missing day — text only, no pictures
• Every card twice: accent-colored tiles for a laminated classroom box and black-on-white ink-saver tiles for the photocopier — plain printed day names either way
• 2 day strips (color and ink-saver), Monday through Sunday in order, grouped into the five school days and the weekend, each tile with the day spelled out under it
• An answer key listing every run by level, its answer, and the days printed on the card
• A task box data sheet (16 rows: date, level, cards used, cards correct, cards given, percent, help given, initials)
• A percent graph, 14 sessions across, with a level box under each session
• A filled example — an invented student, 8 sessions, every percent re-counted from its own row
• A family practice page with six of the same cards and a short reference strip
• A phrase bank: 25 lines in 6 groups (spoken lines for running the box, written starters for the note afterward)
• Start Here, a contents page with page thumbnails, and a "what's next" back page

A task box built around one skill most sort-and-count sets skip: reading a run of weekdays and working out which one is missing, not naming a picture. Every tile is plain printed text — the day's own name — so there is no picture to misread and no art library to run out of. It comes with the same data sheet, graph and phrase bank as the rest of the collection, so this practice turns into a line on a page a case manager can bring to a meeting.

Three Levels, And The Blank Moves With Them

• Level 1 — 4 cards, two days to choose from. The blank is always the LAST day in the run ("Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, __"), and the wrong choice is always at least three weekdays away from the answer, so the first cards are nearly impossible to get wrong.
• Level 2 — 4 cards, three days to choose from. The blank is one of the two MIDDLE days, so the child has to read the day on each side of the gap, not just continue the week forward. The wrong days are never the day right before or after.
• Level 3 — 4 cards, four days to choose from. The blank is the FIRST day in the run ("__, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday") — the child has to work out what day came before the days shown — and one wrong choice is a near-miss: the day right after the blank, already printed on the card.

Moving up a level changes the blank's position and the number of choices at the same time, so a student cannot answer by card position alone. Nothing on a card says its level except a dot code in the corner (one, two or three dots), so a mixed-up box sorts itself back together.

NO PICTURES, ON PURPOSE — every tile on every page is plain printed text, the day's own name, drawn the same way in both the color set and the ink-saver set. There is no picture library to run out of and no image to misread; the only thing a child reads is a word.

What This Is, And What It Is Not

It is a fillable PDF: type into the data sheet, the graph header, the family page and the example-style notes, or print and use a pen. The card pages and day strips print on cardstock or plain paper and cut along dashed lines. It works offline with no account or subscription. It is NOT an editable online slideshow or word-processor document, and it is not a test of anything.

It carries no prompt hierarchy, fading schedule or mastery rule, and it does not decide what a percent means for a student or when to move up a level. The goal line and the criterion field are blanks for your district's own wording and your team's own number. It measures one thing: cards with the missing day correctly marked.

Who This Is For

Special education teachers and paraprofessionals running independent work stations or task box rotations with students working on the order of the days of the week, case managers who need that practice to show up as data, and the families who get the practice page sent home.

More In The Collection

This is one set in the Task Box Collection; more sort, counting and sequencing boxes are being added to the collection regularly, all on the same cards-plus-data shape.