Check Writing Practice Program

Check Writing Practice is a comprehensive check writing program is for individuals who need a step-by-step process for learning to write personal checks. Students read (or can have read to them), a "real-life" one paragraph story. Then they write a check to make a small dollar amount purchase for a product or service. This easy-to-learn method teaches basic banking skills, and when used with the reproducible Check Writing Practice worksheets, gives students a true hands-on way to practice writing checks. From elementary students to adults preparing to open a checking account for the first time, all ages will delight in using this complete and realistic check writing system.  

 

Even participants who have no writing skills should be asked to verbally or in sign language instruct a paraprofessional on how to fill out a check for them, leaving the signature line blank so that the participant can sign or mark their check. Both teens and adults with severe developmental disabilities may be in real life situations where other people will write checks for them. This program will help them to be part of the check writing process to the best of their abilities, so they can help choose how the money in their checking account is spent. When participants are writing personal checks in the future to department stores, utility companies, video stores, dry cleaning stores, and other merchants, the skills they learned here will have given them a "real life" banking experience to write checks with confidence.