2D Shape Identification Sort Task Box

About this resource

EVERYTHING INSIDE — 22 pages, 152 type-in fields

• 12 shape identification cards across 3 levels (4 cards each), one shape drawn per card, and a row of shape-NAME choice tiles below it — never a picture choice, so naming can never be read off a drawing
• Eight real 2D shapes in the box: Circle, Oval, Square, Rectangle, Diamond, Triangle, Star and Heart — every one of them is the correct answer on at least one card, not just a distractor
• Every card twice: filled, colored shapes for a laminated classroom box and outline-only shapes for the photocopier
• 2 shape reference charts (color and ink-saver), all eight shapes listed in one fixed order, plus three shape-family groupings (curved shapes side by side, straight-sided shapes side by side, pointed shapes side by side)
• An answer key listing every card by level, the shape shown, and the shape names printed on it
• A task box data sheet (16 rows: date, level, cards used, cards correct, cards given, percent, help given, initials)
• A percent graph, sessions across, with a level box under each session
• A filled example — an invented student, 8 sessions, every percent re-counted from its own row
• A family practice page with six of the same cards and a mini reference chart
• A phrase bank: 25 lines in 6 groups (spoken lines for running the box, written starters for the note afterward)
• Start Here, a contents page with page thumbnails, and a "what's next" back page

A task box built around telling 2D shapes apart by sight — every shape drawn as its own clean outline, filled color or ink-saver line art, never a photo or an emoji picture. It comes with the same data sheet, graph and phrase bank as the rest of the collection, so this practice turns into a line on a page a case manager can bring to a meeting.

Three Levels, And The Choice Set Grows With Them

• Level 1 — 4 cards, two shape names to choose from: Circle and Square only, the most different-looking pair in the whole library (no curves at all against four equal straight sides), so the first cards can be answered on sight alone.
• Level 2 — 4 cards, four shape names to choose from: Square, Rectangle, Triangle and Star. Square carries over and Rectangle is the level's own near-miss — the same four right angles, different proportions — while Triangle and Star add real variety.
• Level 3 — 4 cards, six shape names to choose from: Circle, Oval, Square, Rectangle, Diamond and Heart. This is the only level where all three classic mix-ups sit on one card: Square against Rectangle, a Diamond that is easy to call "a Square turned sideways," and an Oval next to a Circle.

Nothing on a card says its level except a dot code in the corner (one, two or three dots), so a mixed-up box sorts itself back together.

NO PICTURE-MATCHING, ON PURPOSE — the choice a child marks is always the shape's NAME in plain text, never a second picture of a shape. Matching one drawing to another would let a child answer without naming anything; reading and marking a name is the actual skill.

What This Is, And What It Is Not

It is a fillable PDF: type into the data sheet, the graph header, the family page and the example-style notes, or print and use a pen. The card pages and reference charts print on cardstock or plain paper and cut along dashed lines. It works offline with no account or subscription. It is NOT an editable online slideshow or word-processor document, and it is not a test of anything. It does not cover 3D shapes, sides-and-corners vocabulary, or area and perimeter — it is 2D shape identification only, naming which shape is which.

It carries no prompt hierarchy, fading schedule or mastery rule, and it does not decide what a percent means for a student or when to move up a level. The goal line and the criterion field are blanks for your district's own wording and your team's own number. It measures one thing: cards with the right shape name marked for the shape shown.

Who This Is For

Special education teachers and paraprofessionals running independent work stations or task box rotations with students working on shape identification, case managers who need that practice to show up as data, and the families who get the practice page sent home.

More In The Collection

This is one set in the Task Box Collection; more sort, counting and identification boxes are being added to the collection regularly, all on the same cards-plus-data shape.