Purpose The purpose of this study was to find out an effective treatment method to improve affected side function and activity of daily living through taskoriented movement therapy that can be performed in daily life for stroke patients. Methods Taskoriented movement therapy was applied to six poststroke patients twice a week, 30 minutes a day, for a total of four weeks. As a tool for evaluating the function of stroke patients, postevaluation was performed 4 weeks after the preevaluation using the Korean Modified Barthel Index (KMBI), Manual Functional Test (MFT), and FuglMeyer Assessment Scale (FMA). Results Through postevaluation the following results were obtained significant improvements were made in both acute and chronic stroke patients and more significant improvements in acute patients with shorter incidence periods in KMBI and MFT. FMA showed more significant improvements in chronic patients with longer periods of development, but significant improvements were observed in one chronic subject, comparing to acute patients. Conclusion Task oriented movement therapy was found to be effective for the functional recovery of affected side function and improvement of performance activity of daily living in acute and chronic stroke patients.