To make a picture control journal, take a picture of each activity that you want your child to complete(best if you can use a picture of the actual items they will be using) and put it onto the paper in the appropriate place.  I also recommend that you place the words of what the child is to do underneath the picture.  Use easy words, and limit the number of things expected of them based on their developmental level (not their ability to communicate which may be lower than their developmental level).  With words on the page, the child can begin to see that words provide information and are valuable.  Often the children memorize the words, and can then follow the same sequence using the words only, without the pictures added.  For this type of control journal, it is usually beneficial to make one page for each general time period.  I generally add pictures to a simple version of individual big pages when I make a picture control journal.  Please click on the individual big pages tab above.  It is very important that this also be called a control journal if this is the phrase that you use for what the other children in your family use...just because it has pictures on it, does not mean that it is any less or more important than what everyone else in the family uses to organize themselves.

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