Waiting and Self-Control Cue Cards with Log

About this resource

EVERYTHING INSIDE — 23 pages

• A Waiting and Self-Control Chart: all 12 strategies on one poster, meant to be posted and taught from, not cut apart
• 12 waiting and self-control cards, 2 inches square, sized for velcro dots: wait, wait in line, quiet voice, raise hand, count, timer, watch, read, draw, stand, sit, calm
• Every card and the chart twice: a full-color set for the wall and the board, and a black-and-white ink-saver set for the photocopier
• A Waiting Strategy Board with one main "Which Waiting Strategy Am I Using?" slot and a six-slot "Strategies Used Today" strip with a time line under each
• Two desk-size waiting boards on one sheet, for a folder or a second setting
• 12 blank waiting cards with a type-in word line, for any strategy the printed set does not cover
• A how-to page: before the first day, the three moves every time, choosing a strategy, when a wait does not go smoothly, writing down what changes, picking a first set of cards
• A Waiting Strategy Log (16 rows: date, time, strategy used, how it happened, where, notes)
• A weekly roll-up (8 weeks) with a times-practiced-per-week graph
• A filled example — an invented student, one day on the log and three weeks on the roll-up, every number re-counted from its own row
• A family page with a kitchen-size board and six home waiting strategies on one sheet
• A hand-off page so a paraprofessional or another classroom runs the same chart and board the same way
• A phrase bank: 24 lines in 6 groups (spoken lines for the chart and board, written starters for the log, the roll-up and the note home)
• A storage and binder label sheet: 11 labels and a spine strip
• Start Here, a contents page with page thumbnails, and a "what's next" back page

A waiting and self-control reference tool that comes with its own data. Most cue-card sets stop at the pictures; this one adds a cut-apart card for every strategy, a practice board, a log, a weekly roll-up and a phrase bank behind it, so a strategy used at school turns into a line on a page a case manager can bring to a meeting.

The Chart And Cards

• The chart: all 12 strategies on one page, for teaching and for the wall
• The cards (12) — wait, wait in line, quiet voice, raise hand, count, timer, watch, read, draw, stand, sit, calm: the same 12 strategies, cut apart so one can move onto the board

Every picture is a concrete object or action, not an abstract idea — an hourglass, a person with a hand up, a pencil — chosen to be named in one word by a young child, in color AND in the black-and-white set; a word that failed in either set (or had no concrete picture at all, like "hands still" or "deep breath") was left out of both. Cards are 2 inches square; the board's main slot is sized to match.

The Board

• Waiting Strategy Board — one "Which Waiting Strategy Am I Using?" panel with a slot, and a "Strategies Used Today" strip of six smaller slots with a time line under each.
• Two desk-size waiting boards — two boards on one sheet, cut apart, for a folder or a second student.

The boards carry no pictures, so they print the same in color or black and white.

What This Is, And What It Is Not

It is a fillable PDF: type into the board's slots and time lines, the log, the roll-up, the family page, the hand-off page and the blank cards, or print and use a pen. The chart and card pages print on cardstock or plain paper; the cards 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 show a waiting or self-control strategy in a picture and keep a record of when it was used. It is not a behavior plan, a clinical finding, a screening tool or a program of any kind, and it promises no outcome. It carries no prompt hierarchy, fading schedule or mastery rule; it does not say why a strategy was chosen or what to do about it — how the chart 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. The log counts one thing: which waiting strategy was used.

Who This Is For

Special education teachers and paraprofessionals building self-control and waiting-tolerance strategies with students who need a concrete, visual routine for lines, turns and transitions, 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 is one of several sets in the Visual Supports Collection, alongside Classroom Attention and Listening Cue Cards, Self-Regulation Zones Check-In Chart and Strategy Cards, Manners and Polite Language Cue Cards and Personal Space Visual Cue Cards; more picture-card sets 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.