The Best Free Following Directions Activities

Learning to follow both oral and written instructions is a vital skill that students need to learn at an early age.  However, grabbing their attention long enough to learn the complicated process can be challenging!

Following directions involves a combination of mental tasks. Therefore, for a student to be good at this, he or she needs to be proficient at the following skills, and he or she also needs to be able to do them simultaneously:

1. Attention is the ability to maintain focus on a selected stimulus, sustaining that focus and shifting it at will.
2. Receptive language is the ability to understand language “input” - including both words and gestures. 
3. Memory is the ability to understand and remember information over time.
4. Verbal reasoning is the ability to understand and reason with words.
5. Executive Functioning is the ability to multitask, self-monitor, self-initiate, plan, prioritize, and organize information.  It is the internal system that controls and regulates our cognitive processes.

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