Functional Life Skills - Clothes and Getting Dressed

Functional Life Skills - Clothes and Getting Dressed: An Overview

Designed specially for children with special educational needs, this resource lays paramount emphasis on fostering practical skills pertaining to clothing and dressing. The aim is to prepare students for daily challenges, boost independence, and cultivate informed decision-making ability in the absence of supervision.

Main Aims

• Fosters understanding about choosing appropriate clothes based on a range of factors from weather conditions to fit for different occasions.

• Covers practical aspects like managing buttons, zippers and shoe laces tying.

The resource comes complete with planning ideas, teaching slides that outline lessons comprehensively, vocabulary cards to enrich student language capacity regarding clothes while data tracking sheets help monitor learning progress over time.

Note-worthy Features:

• An array of activities ranging from whole class integration or small group use along with some suitable for independent workstation applications.

• A social story designed to stimulate conversational abilities among learners while making topics around clothing relatable through day-to-day scenarios.

• An engaging bingo game that aids in the grasp of naming conventions of clothing items thereby facilitating memory retention. Instruction cards filled with realistic photos visually represent each attire piece simplistically enhancing understanding and recall ability.
  

Resources included:

· Ideas for planning

· Teaching slides

· Vocabulary cards

· Data tracking sheets

· Social story

· Bingo game

· Instruction cards with real photos

· Labelling activities

· Picture to picture matching

· Word to picture matching

· Differentiated scenario question and answer

· Sequencing activities

· Sorting activities

This proficiency-enhancing resource is available across grade limitations and is ideal for educators dealing with students of varying ages and developmental milestones. Provided in a widely-used PDF format, it extends threshold-free access for teachers worldwide.

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