Reading Work Schedules Task Box: Job Skills Functional Reading

This reading work schedules task box teaches students to read a personal schedule, a team schedule, and a posted change sheet in three levels, including hours, breaks, pay, and planning.

Why I made this: At job sites, schedules change every week, and my students are the ones who show up on the wrong day or at 3:00 AM instead of 3:00 PM. Reading a schedule means finding your name, the day, the time, the break rule, and the newest change. This box builds that one level at a time.

What's included (25 pages):

• 3 practice schedules: a personal schedule, a team schedule, and a schedule with changes

• Level A: 12 cards about the personal schedule

• Level B: 24 cards about the team schedule

• Level C: 24 cards about hours, breaks, pay, changes, and planning

• An answer mat, a "How to read a work schedule" page, and a "My schedule" page

• 3 practice pages, one for each level

• Answer key for every card

• Data sheet and a 10 session accuracy graph

• A try it for real page with an adult check

• Ideas for practice at school, home, and job sites, and blank cards

How I use it: We go over the 4 steps for reading a schedule, then students work on their level with the 3 practice schedules. When a student has a real job site, we fill out "My schedule" every week.

Who it is for: transition, special education, life skills, and vocational teachers, job coaches, and paras working with students in grades 9 to 12 and 18 to 21 programs.

How it is different from my other schedule resources: those focus on counting work hours. This box focuses on reading a personal schedule, a team schedule, and a posted change sheet, with a break rule and planning.

What you download: one printable PDF, 25 pages, US Letter.

From the author of The Transition Map (Jeremy D. Gooch), available in paperback and Kindle.

Part of the Job Ready Task Box series from The Transition Cliff. Jeremy D. Gooch, transition coordinator with 20+ years in education.

Made by Jeremy D. Gooch, special education teacher and transition coordinator. Drafting and layout had AI assistance; every page was checked by me.