Silverware Sorting and Rolling Work Task Box: Food Service and Home Living, Ages 14 to 21

This silverware sorting and rolling work task box teaches a real food service and home living job at three levels: sort forks, spoons, and knives, sort by type and size, then roll the right sets in napkins from a ticket.

Why I made this: Rolling silverware is one of the first jobs a lot of students are given in a restaurant or a school cafeteria, and it shows up at home every time the dishwasher is emptied. It takes sorting, counting, following steps, and keeping things clean. The Re wash bin and the Supply Note are on purpose, because on a real shift, the right move with a dirty fork or an empty napkin stack is to set it aside and tell someone.

What’s included (23 pages):

• Level A ●: 12 picture cards to sort into forks, spoons, and knives

• Level B ■: 24 picture cards to sort by type and size (dinner fork, salad fork, knife, teaspoon, soup spoon)

• Level C ▲: 24 roll up tickets, including 3 Re wash notes and 3 napkin shortages

• A 3 bin mat, a 5 bin mat, a "How to roll silverware" picture steps page, and a clean hands page

• Ready and Re wash mats and Supply Notes

• 3 practice pages, an answer key with self check codes, a data sheet, and a 10 session accuracy graph

• A try it for real plan with a supervisor check, a generalization page for the school cafeteria, a restaurant, and home, and blank tickets

How I use it: I start with real plastic silverware and the 3 bin mat, then move to the size clues and the 5 bin mat. When students can sort, I teach the 8 rolling steps and the clean hands rules, and we finish with Level C tickets and a real rolling job in the cafeteria.

Who it is for: Special education, life skills, transition, and vocational teachers in grades 6 to 12 and 18 to 21 programs, and families working on home living skills.

What you download: WT06 Silverware Sorting Rolling Work Task Box.pdf (23 pages, US Letter, print ready)

How this is different: Food Prep and Fast Food task cards teach the whole kitchen or restaurant job with vocabulary and scenarios. Task Analysis Data Sheets | 20 Life Skills + Job Skills Routines | Special Ed has one rolling silverware routine as a step list. This box is the hands on version: picture cards to sort, a mat, 24 roll up tickets with twists, and a data sheet, at three levels. No text is shared with the other Vocational Work Task Boxes.

Part of the Vocational Work Task Box series.

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