Warehouse Order Picking Work Task Box | Location Codes | SPED

Warehouse Order Picking Work Task Box: a hands-on vocational work task box for high school special education, transition, and job skills programs. Students print, cut, and work through three levels on their own while you take accuracy data.

Why I made this: Warehouse and stockroom jobs come up a lot for my students, and the work is mostly reading codes carefully. A student who can read B-2-4 and not grab B-4-2 is a student a supervisor can trust. This box lets students practice the reading and the checking at a table before they are walking real aisles. The short picks are on purpose. On a real job, an empty bin is normal, and the right move is to write it up and tell someone, not to grab something close.

What's included:

• Level A: 12 one-item pick tickets

• Level B: 24 three-item pick tickets

• Level C: 24 five-item pick tickets with quantities, including 3 short picks

• 4 shelf grid mats (one per aisle, 12 bins each) and 48 item cards

• 3 EMPTY BIN cards and short-pick slips for Level C

• 1 page on reading location codes and 1 location grid page

• 3 practice pages, one for each level

• Answer key for every ticket and practice page

• Data sheet and a 10-session accuracy graph

• A plan for trying it for real at school, with a 5-item supervisor check

• Blank tickets and blank item cards

How I use it: Set up the four shelf grid mats with the 48 item cards. At Level A, students pull one item by its exact code. At Level B, they pick 3 items and check each one off. At Level C, they pick 5 items with quantities. Three bins are empty at Level C, so students write 0 and fill out a short-pick slip. Students check their picks against the ticket codes (cover codes with tape if they peek), and you record accuracy and prompt level.

How this set is different from my Job Site Task Cards: My Warehouse Job Skills Task Cards teach picking, packing, and forklift safety as site procedure cards. This Work Task Box is a tabletop picking station: shelf grid mats, item cards, pick tickets, short-pick slips, self-check codes, and a data sheet. No warehouse procedure cards or forklift content are repeated.

Part of the Work Task Boxes series: one layout across every job, three levels (A match, B use a reference, C handle twists), self-check codes, blank cards for your own site, and a data sheet with a 10-session graph.

Who it is for: high school special education, transition programs for ages 18 to 21, vocational and CTE classes, job coaches, and work-based learning teams. Grades 9 to 12 and adult transition. Level A works for emerging readers within that band. The tasks look like real jobs, not preschool sorting. No clipart or photos are needed, so the cards stay simple and age-respectful.

What you download: one printable PDF, 33 pages, US Letter. Answer key included.

Real workplaces vary. Use the blank cards to match your building's rooms, names, codes, and supplies. Always follow the training and rules at the actual job site.

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

Written by Jeremy D. Gooch, a teacher with 20+ years in education. All names, businesses, and places are made up.