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*Tray Tasking:
What Is a Tray Task?
Tray Tasking engages children in activities that promote the whole body preparation needed for the development of formal reading and writing skills while having fun. Children use practical, easy, and familiar household items as learning tools to strengthen:
• Crossing the midline
• Eye/hand coordination
• Arm and wrist muscle strengthening
• The use of both hands in harmonized ways
• Grasping control
Trays are set up with two important directionalities in mind: Top to bottom and left to right; the same principles for formal reading and writing. A child manipulates the items organized on a tray using movements that require them to engage their eyes, arms, and hands in top-to-bottom and left-to-right directions. Tray activities are usually displayed on open shelving as a learning center.
It's helpful to designate a table next to the shelves to become the Tray Task Table.
EXAMPLE:
The idea for this particular tray task would be to use the tool to pick up and transfer each item from the left side of the bowl to the right side of the bowl.
What Is a Tray Task?
Tray Tasking engages children in activities that promote the whole body preparation needed for the development of formal reading and writing skills while having fun. Children use practical, easy, and familiar household items as learning tools to strengthen:
• Crossing the midline
• Eye/hand coordination
• Arm and wrist muscle strengthening
• The use of both hands in harmonized ways
• Grasping control
Trays are set up with two important directionalities in mind: Top to bottom and left to right; the same principles for formal reading and writing. A child manipulates the items organized on a tray using movements that require them to engage their eyes, arms, and hands in top-to-bottom and left-to-right directions. Tray activities are usually displayed on open shelving as a learning center.
It's helpful to designate a table next to the shelves to become the Tray Task Table.
EXAMPLE:
The idea for this particular tray task would be to use the tool to pick up and transfer each item from the left side of the bowl to the right side of the bowl.