Description
Are your kindergarten, 1st grade students, or older students not listening or struggling to follow your directions? Do they need to practice reading and following written directions? Use these no-prep, Follow the Directions Coloring Pages to promote fine motor, listening, and reading skills throughout the school year. This is included in the Following Directions Bundle DEAL.
Created by a certified occupational therapy assistant, this 23 page PDF is available immediately following payment.
What is Included in the Follow the Directions Coloring Pages PDF Packet?
Three styles of coloring pages are included:
- directions on a separate page that can be read to the group by an adult or peer.
- directions on the page for students to read and complete.
- students write their own directions for a peer to follow
There 5 several styles of each design. General scenery includes outer space, castles, Candyland, an evil science lab, a museum, pirates, under the sea, a volcano-prehistoric, a medieval village, an art gallery, an outdoor market, a ballroom, a carnival, a lighthouse and a city.
What Skills Are Students Working on With These Following Instructions Activity PDFs?
- listening comprehension
- fine motor skills
- visual-spatial skills
- visual motor skills
- reading and more!
Your students will enhance their direction-following skills by completing coloring pages based on step-by-step oral or written instructions. The teacher lead oral direction pages can easily be turned into multistep directions following lessons. Students must listen to or read the directions to complete the coloring pages correctly.
Occupational therapy (OT) Tip: Break crayons in half, and use short pencils to promote a fingertip grasp when students are coloring, drawing, or writing.
Ideas to Modify the Following Instructions Activities.
- Directions are one to two steps, but you can easily add a step to the listening directions.
- Focus on spatial skills and highlight the directions that include prepositions.
- Make it a gross motor brain break with an added exercise to complete after you give the direction.
When is a Good Time to Use These Activities?
Great for fun days, centers, workstations, occupational or speech therapy sessions, early finishers or they can be left for a substitute. Just print the worksheets for your students and they are ready to go.
