Good Choice Bad Choice Sort Task Box

About this resource

EVERYTHING INSIDE — 22 pages, 159 type-in fields

• 72 scenario cards across 3 levels (26 rounds: 12 rounds of 2 cards, 8 rounds of 3 cards, 6 rounds of 4 cards), 36 good choices and 36 bad choices
• Every card twice: tinted cards for a laminated classroom box and black-on-white cards for the copier
• A two-box sort mat (color and ink-saver): a Good Choice box with a check mark, a Bad Choice box with a cross, a "My name" line, a one-line instruction for the child, six card-sized slots in each box, and two writing lines under "Now write one good choice of your own"
• Cards that touch edge to edge, so every cut is one straight line
• An answer key listing every round by level
• A "Where to Use It" page: morning circle, small group, independent station, act it out, anchor chart, sent home, plus lines to add cards from your own class
• A task box data sheet (16 rows: date, level, rounds given, 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 figure re-counted from its own table
• A home page with six of the same cards to cut apart and a weekly play log
• A phrase bank: spoken lines for running the box and written starters for the note afterward, in 6 groups
• Start Here, a contents page with page thumbnails, and a "what's next" back page

Each card is one short, invented, everyday situation in a large, rounded font: "Share the crayons," "Grab a toy from a friend," "Hand in a lost mitten to the teacher." The child reads the card and puts it in the Good Choice box or the Bad Choice box. It comes with the same data sheet, graph and phrase bank as the rest of the collection, so independent work turns into a line on a page you can bring to a meeting.

Three Levels, Each Asking Something Different

• Level 1: 12 rounds, 2 cards each. Short, plain situations, one good choice beside one bad choice.
• Level 2: 8 rounds, 3 cards each. Some rounds hold two good choices and a bad one, others two bad choices and a good one, so sorting the cards one-and-one will not work.
• Level 3: 6 rounds, 4 cards each, cut as a block. Longer cards, two good and two bad in every block, and in each block a bad choice sounds a lot like a good one (telling the teacher you spilled it, or saying a friend did), so the child reads to the end.

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.

LAMINATE-READY AND NO COLOR NEEDED — the two boxes are told apart by their words and by a check or a cross, never by color alone, so the black-and-white set works the same as the tinted one. There are no pictures: nothing to wear off, nothing to misread.

What This Is, And What It Is Not

It is a fillable PDF: type into the data sheet, graph header and home page, or print and use a pen. Cards and mats 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.

Every card is invented and has one plain answer. No card names a child or describes a punishment, and the box carries no behavior plan, prompt hierarchy, fading schedule or mastery rule. What your class does after a real choice, the goal wording and the criterion are blanks for your own team and your district's wording. It counts one thing: cards placed in the correct box.

Who This Is For

Special education teachers and paraprofessionals running independent work stations, morning circle or social skills group, case managers who need that practice to show up as data, and the families who get the home page.

More In The Collection

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