KITCHEN: Functional Skills Unit

This digital resource includes 80 no-print, no-prep worksheets to support students with kitchen-related life skills and scenarios. It is packed with visuals and tools to help your students be successful, including…

• A Kitchen Checklist: The steps to doing dishes, following a recipe, and using the microwave as well as the skills involved with each task are outlined in this student-friendly, parent-friendly checklist. Great for use during community based instruction and/or classroom activities that involve cooking, as well as to send home for collaboration between the parent/guardian and SLP.

• Sequencing Activities: Pages include a visual for loading the dishwasher, as well as tasks with first/next/then/last sentence starters (i.e. how do you cook spaghetti?).

• Photo Identification Pages: These worksheets describe and discuss various appliances (microwave, blender, toaster, etc.) and cookware (utensils, pots, pans, etc.). Each worksheet includes WH questions with visuals on the item’s functions and features (i.e. where do we find it? why do we use it? etc.). Additional practice pages with comprehension questions also included.

• Hypothetical scenarios: Read short passages or situations and respond to questions in the areas of problem solving, cause and effect, and inferencing.

This resource opens up so many possibilities and helps keep therapy FUNCTIONAL! Great for teletherapy OR in-person sessions with middle or high school students working on developing important life skills. Have a scavenger hunt in the kitchen! Pair object pages (whisk, baking sheet, etc.) with cooking activities or even YouTube baking videos! The possibilities are endless!