Functional Life Skills - Clothes and Getting Dressed

Teaching life skills to children with special educational needs helps to give them knowledge and skills to handle daily tasks, become more independent and know how to take action when an adult is not around to help. The teaching of life skills should be thought of as a crucial part of the curriculum for children with special needs as it prepares them for day to day challenges and helps them become more productive members of their communities.

This resource provides planning, teaching slides, vocabulary cards and data tracking sheets as well as a range of different activities perfect for use with a whole class, small group and some of them can be used as independent workstation activities.

This unit covers clothes and getting dressed, and teaches children about the importance of dressing appropriately for weather, wearing different types of clothes for different occasions and about how to fasten buttons, zippers and tie shoe laces.

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

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