Visual Direction Cards: 12 Black and White Supply Cards with Step Numbers 1-8

Verbal directions are forgotten fast. These picture cards show every step in order, so students can check the board instead of asking.

These visual direction cards show students each step of a task with a picture, like read, cut, color, and glue. Number the steps from 1 to 8 so students know what to do and in what order, long after the verbal directions are forgotten.

What is in it

• 12 visual direction cards: read, write, glue, highlight, dab, erase, measure, cut, plus 2 color cards and 2 clip cards with different pictures
• Number cards 1 to 8 to show the order of the steps
• 4 cards to a page, 7 pages total
• Black and white, to print on bright cardstock

See every page in the Visual Direction Cards preview on TPT.

How to use it

• Post the cards in order on the board before each task
• Point to each step as you give the directions
• Students check the cards instead of asking what to do next

Where it fits

• Centers and independent work
• Special education and English learners
• Classrooms with no color printer
• Kindergarten and 1st grade

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Steps they can see

Post the cards before each task and point to them as you give directions.

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Made by a teacher who's been right where you are.

Jessica Ann Stanford, Teachers Follow Teachers