Free Community Based Instruction Worksheets

What is included

• •Four public transportation scenario cards from the front of the deck, each with a photo, a situation and three lettered responses
• •The rider script page: all twelve sentences the deck asks a student to say, so nothing is ever asked for that the pack did not print
• •The reusable 20-row data sheet, with a prompt-level column and a setting column for the room, the stop or the community trip
• •US Letter print-ready PDF, everything single-sided

Questions from teachers

Is this community based instruction sample really free?

Yes, it costs nothing. Enter your email and it downloads right away. Your email lets the link reach you and joins the educators list for occasional resources, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

How do I get the pages?

Add your email on this page. The sample opens immediately, a copy is emailed to you, and it lands in your My Resources library so you can reprint it whenever you need it.

How do I use it on a community trip?

Read the four cards at a table in the room first, so the situations are familiar before anything is at stake, then take the same cards to a real stop. Score each card on the data sheet with the prompt level you used (I independent, V verbal, G gesture, P physical) and whether the response was independent, one row per card per outing. The setting column is what lets you see a student who answers correctly in the room and needs a prompt at the stop.

What is the rider script page for?

It is every sentence the deck asks a student to say, printed in one place: asking a driver whether the bus goes where the student is going, asking for a stop to be called out, saying that a seat or the securement space is needed, and saying that someone is bothering them. There are twelve of them, and they are pulled out of the cards themselves, so a card and its script line cannot drift apart. A student who cannot say them out loud can show them instead.

What is in the full pack?

Twenty public transportation cards with a teacher answer key, a route card with nine fields covering the transfer and the ride home, the rider script page, a show-the-driver card of eight lines, a blank autism identification card, a teacher page of eight notes on fares, reduced fare, paratransit and the ADA, a portfolio sheet and four copy-paste IEP goals, in US Letter and A4.

Can I use the sample with more than one student?

Yes. Print the data sheet once per student or per outing; the cards and the script page are reusable as many times as you need for your own students.