Following Written Directions Worksheets

About this resource

Reading a direction is one skill. Doing step 1, then step 2, then step 3 — in that order, without skipping ahead — is a different one, and it is the one a child is actually tested on the moment a worksheet, a classroom job chart or a test gives more than one instruction at a time.

Every direction set in this pack is built so a finished picture has exactly one checkable result: draw one named shape, an exact count of a shape, color a named color, put an X, write a given word or number, or draw a line or dot in a stated position. Nothing asks a child to compare what they just free-drew (no "biggest" or "smallest" of their own shapes), because a hand-drawn size is not something two adults would always agree on — every other action here is.

EVERYTHING INSIDE (34 pages)

The Seven Page Types, Easiest To Hardest

Built For The Child Holding The Page

A big "My name" line, one short numbered instruction at a time, large rounded letters, and a blank box sized to the step count — nothing is pre-drawn, because the drawing is the task. No adult-only language, no scoring, no level word anywhere a child can read it.

Type In, Or Print

The name and date lines, the tracker, the class grid, the team note and the home page are type-in fields in any PDF reader. The student pages print clean in black and white and are pencil-and-crayon work. This is a fillable PDF; it is not a Google Slides or PowerPoint file.

Who This Is For

Kindergarten through second grade classrooms, self-contained and resource rooms, and any teacher who needs to see whether a child can hold more than one instruction in order — a skill that shows up on test directions, classroom jobs and multi-step work long before it has its own worksheet shelf.

What This Is, And What It Is Not