Turn-Taking Task Box: Waiting and Sharing Social Skills, High School

This turn taking task box builds waiting and sharing in three levels, from simple turn orders to fair plans with a clock.

Why I made this: Taking turns sounds simple, but it pulls together a lot of hard skills: waiting, watching, asking, and accepting "not yet." It also shows up everywhere after school, from sharing a copier at work to taking turns in a conversation. This box starts with simple turn orders and builds up to planning fair turns with a clock, which is a skill my older students use on job sites.

What’s included (22 pages):

• Level A ●: 12 "whose turn?" cards with turn orders to finish

• Level B ■: 24 choice cards for waiting, sharing, and taking turns in class, at home, and at work

• Level C ▲: 24 cards with game rules, sign up sheets, and turn schedules with time and counting

• A "my turn, waiting, your turn" mat, a "while I wait" page, and 6 cue cards

• 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 practicing at home and around school, and blank cards

How I use it: I play a short game with the turn mat first, then students work on their level in the task box. We post a real sign up sheet for the class computer, and I take data on the data sheet and the adult check.

Who it is for: Special education teachers in structured, self contained, and life skills classrooms, resource rooms, counselors, and paras, for students in grades 5 to 8 and older students who need the same skills.

What you download: Turn Taking Task Box Social Emotional.pdf (22 pages, US Letter, print ready)

How this is different: This is a structured task box with levels and data. No live product teaches turn taking, and no text is shared.

Part of the Social Emotional 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.