Community Helpers Following Directions & Listening Skills Coloring Pages

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Are your students not listening or struggling to follow your directions? Do you need to teach them how important it is to follow directions and listen? Do they need to practice reading and following written directions? 

Use these engaging community helper-themed, no-prep, follow-the-directions worksheets to promote fine motor, listening comprehension, and reading skills. 

Great for occupational therapy activities or speech therapy sessions, early finishers, or a fun activity with a purpose in the classroom. You can also use them as a classroom brain break when you add a gross motor movement after each direction.

An excellent listening activity where students must listen to the directions to complete the picture. Students must listen to or read the directions to complete the coloring pages correctly. You can combine two directions and give them as multi-step if your students can handle the challenge.

Images included: The set includes a doctor’s office, dentist’s office, police station, fire station, airplane, and post office. Please see the preview to get an idea of what is included in this set.

What is Included in the Following Directions Packet?

This digital download includes:

• 6 pages that a teacher or peer reads the directions and the students complete the coloring pages
• 6 pages where students read the directions and complete the coloring pages
• 6 pages where students write their own directions and trade with a peer that completes the coloring pages

Directions are one step, but you can easily add a step to the listening directions.

Want to Extend or Change the Activity?

Make it a gross motor brain break by adding an exercise after each direction.  “Circle the snowman then do 10 squats.” or “Draw 2 clouds in the sky then do 10 jumps.”

Consider changing my directions for more of a challenge.  “Color the tree blue.” or “Draw a hat on the bird.”

When Is a Good Time to Use the Directions Packets?

These NO PREP worksheets can be printed for the classroom or be added to remote distance learning packets. Use these packets during:

• small group instruction
• whole classroom activity
• an Occupational Therapy session to work on listening skills and visual motor skills

What Skills Are Students Working on With this Packet?

Students are practicing the following skills:

• receptive language
• following step-by-step directions
• fine motor skills
• visual motor skills
• reading comprehension

Occupational therapy (OT) Tip:  Have students use short pencils or broken crayons and write on an incline or vertical surface to promote a more functional grasp.