Vocational Task Box

About this resource

EVERYTHING INSIDE — 22 pages, 152 type-in fields

• 36 price tag cards across 3 levels (13 rounds: 6 rounds of 2 cards, 4 rounds of 3 cards, 3 rounds of 4 cards), 18 priced under 5 dollars and 18 priced 5 dollars or more
• 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): an UNDER 5 box and a 5 OR MORE box, a "My name" line, a one-line instruction for the student, and six card-sized slots in each box
• Cards that touch edge to edge, so every cut is one straight line
• An answer key listing every round by level, plus the lowest and highest price in each box
• 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 tags 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 a stock-room item with a price tag: a stapler, a roll of tape, a hand truck. The student reads the price and files the tag in the UNDER 5 box or the 5 OR MORE box. The rule is printed on the mat so no card is a guess: under 5 dollars goes in UNDER 5, 5 dollars or more goes in 5 OR MORE, and exactly 5.00 is 5 OR MORE. Prices print as a number with the word "dollars," in plain text and a rounded font, with no pictures. They are invented for practice and are not any store's. 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: 6 rounds, 2 cards each. One tag under 5 beside one tag 5 or more; every price is at least 1.75 dollars from the 5 line.
• Level 2: 4 rounds, 3 cards each. Some rounds hold two under-5 tags and one 5-or-more tag, others the reverse, so filing the cards one-and-one will not work; the closest price is 0.50 dollars from the 5 line.
• Level 3: 3 rounds, 4 cards each, cut as a block. Two under and two over in every block, with every price within one dollar of the 5 line, so the student has to read the cents. One tag is priced exactly 5.00.

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 — the cards are item names and prices, one tag to a card. The only other printing is the big bin labels on the sort mat.

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.

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 criterion field are blanks for your district's own wording and your team's own number. It counts one thing: tags filed in the correct box.

Who This Is For

Special education teachers and paraprofessionals running life-skills or pre-vocational stations in middle and high school, 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.