Desk-Taped Mini Schedule Strip

About this resource

EVERYTHING INSIDE — 23 pages, 211 type-in fields

• 3 ready-made 4-step routines, each printed as two identical 2.75-inch wide strips so one sheet gives a desk copy and a spare: Morning Arrival (bus, coat, sit, calendar), Independent Work (timer, writing, quiet, all done), and Transition and Clean-Up (clean up, pack up, line up, wait)
• Every routine twice: a full-color strip and a black-and-white ink-saver strip for a photocopier or a second adult
• An "at a glance" picture diagram of the step order printed above the cut pieces on every strip page, so the sequence reads before any cutting happens
• A blank strip template: two identical 2.75-inch strips, four type-in lines each, for any routine the three ready-made strips do not cover
• A how-to page: cutting the sheet, taping it to the desk, showing a step, what to do when a step needs help, picking which strip goes on which desk, one strip for several adults, two strips on one desk, and replacing a worn strip
• A Desk Strip Log (16 rows: date, time, routine, step shown, completed without help Y/N, initials)
• A weekly roll-up (8 weeks) with a percent-completed-without-help graph
• A filled example — an invented student, one school day across two routines and three weeks on the roll-up, every percent re-counted from its own row
• A family page with six home practice steps (cut apart), the how-to line, and a week of home tries to initial
• A hand-off page so a paraprofessional, specials teacher or substitute uses the same desk strip the same way
• A phrase bank: 24 lines in 6 groups (what to say when pointing to a step, written starters for the log, the roll-up and the note home)
• A storage and binder label sheet: 10 labels and a spine strip
• Start Here, a contents page with page thumbnails, and a "what's next" back page

Every board and strip single in this collection already sells the same first/then-style schedule content on a flat 8.5x11 sheet mounted to a wall or a binder. This one is a size variant, not a shrink of the board: the content is re-laid, from the ground up, into a strip narrow enough (2.75 inches) to tape along the edge of a single desk, so the step order a student needs sits where they are already sitting.

The Three Routines

• Morning Arrival Routine (4 steps) — bus, coat, sit, calendar
• Independent Work Routine (4 steps) — timer, writing, quiet, all done
• Transition and Clean-Up Routine (4 steps) — clean up, pack up, line up, wait

Every word and picture is imported from the same word bank the collection's First Then Board and Activity Picture Cards already uses and has already passed a nameability read on; no new picture enters the collection with this product. No word repeats across the three routines.

Why Two Identical Strips On Every Sheet

Each routine prints as two identical cut-apart copies, side by side on one sheet: one tapes to the desk, and the second is a ready spare for a different desk, a backpack, or to send home on the family page.

What This Is, And What It Is Not

It is a fillable PDF: type into the log, the roll-up, the family page, the hand-off page and the blank strip, or print and use a pen. The strip sheets 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.

It is a way to tape a step order where a student is already sitting, and for an adult to write down whether a step was completed without help. It is not a behavior plan or a program of any kind, and it promises no outcome. It carries no prompting method or order to teach the steps in; how the strip is used with a student, and for how long, is what your team's plan says. The goal line and the criterion field are blanks for your district's own wording and your team's own number.

Who This Is For

Special education teachers, paraprofessionals and related-service providers who want a visual schedule within arm's reach of one desk instead of mounted on a wall, plus the case managers who need that use to show up as data, and the families who get the home page sent home.

More In The Collection

This single sits alongside First Then Board and Activity Picture Cards, Home Morning Routine Visual Schedule Cards, and Visual Supports Starter Set FREE in the Visual Supports Collection; more picture-card sets — schedule cards, routine strips, choice boards — are being added to the collection regularly, all on the same cards-plus-data shape.

Pictures (color pages): Noto Emoji by Google, Apache License 2.0. Pictures (ink-saver pages): Fluent Emoji, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, MIT License.