Color Matching File Folders Task Boxes
- 22 pages
- Not Grade Specific
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WHAT'S IN THE BOX — 22 pages, 150 type-in fields
What Makes A Card Harder, And The One Pair That Never Meets
This box asks for one thing only: look at the printed color swatch on top, then find its twin among the tiles below — visual color matching, so no card asks a child to mix colors or name a shade. Nearly any two colors are allowed to land on one card together — telling them apart is the whole point — with a single exception. Red and green are never placed on one card together: red-green color vision deficiency is the most common form of color blindness, the same reason a traffic signal never relies on color alone.
- Level 1 — 6 cards, 2 tiles: the match against one other color.
- Level 2 — 6 cards, 3 tiles: the match against two other colors.
- Level 3 — 6 cards, 4 tiles: the match against three other colors, asking only for a longer look across the row, never a close call between two colors that are hard to tell apart.
From card to card at every level, the matching tile moves to a different spot in the row (never sitting first every time), so a student who is guessing by position instead of reading the color shows up clearly on the data sheet.
A dot code tucked in the corner — one, two or three dots — is the only place a card's level ever appears, so a box that gets shuffled sorts itself back out.
About The Color Ink This Box Needs
Color identification cannot be tested in black and white — a gray duplicate of these cards would teach nothing. So, unlike this store's other matching task boxes, this file does not carry a second, ink-saver set of the color cards. One page inside says this plainly and points to the bonus section (a different, black-and-white-friendly skill: reading the printed color word) as a second activity for when ink is tight, never as a stand-in for the color cards themselves.
What This Is, And What It Isn'T
Type straight into the data sheet, the graph header, the family page and the example-style notes, or print it all and use a pen — either way, this is a fillable PDF. Cards and the color list are meant for cardstock, cut along dashed lines, six to a sheet, every cut a straight line. No account and no subscription; it opens and works offline. It is NOT an editable online slideshow or a word-processor document, it is NOT a color-theory lesson (no card mixes colors or names a shade), and it isn't a test of anything.
No prompt hierarchy, fading schedule or mastery rule rides along inside it, and nothing here decides what a percent should mean for a student or when a level change is due. The goal line and the criterion field stay blank, waiting on your district's own wording and your team's own number. What it tracks is narrow and specific: how many cards had the matching tile marked correctly.
Who This Is For
Special education teachers and paraprofessionals running independent work stations, file-folder tasks or task box rotations for students ready to match colors by sight; case managers who need that practice turned into data; and the families who take the practice page home.
More In The Collection
This set belongs to the Task Box Collection, where new sort, counting, matching and sequencing boxes keep joining the same cards-plus-data shape on a regular basis.
