Counting 11-20 Picture Task Box

About this resource

EVERYTHING INSIDE — 22 pages, 150 type-in fields

• 36 count cards across 3 levels (528 pictures to count): each card is a cluster of one object, its word, and a row of printed numeral boxes to circle, clip a clothespin on, or cover with a chip
• Every card twice: a full-color set for a laminated classroom box and a black-and-white ink-saver set for the photocopier
• 2 number strips (color and ink-saver): numerals 11 to 20, each beside that many bananas, a visual anchor that never appears on a card — every row shows a full ten plus the extra ones, so a teen number reads as "a ten and some more"
• An answer key listing every card by level with its count and the numerals printed on it, plus the full object list
• A task box data sheet (16 rows: date, level, cards used, cards correct, cards given, percent, help given, initials)
• A percent graph 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 a short strip and six of the same cards
• 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

The 11-20 sibling to the store's Counting 1-10 Picture Task Box: the same cards-plus-data shape, moved up to teen numbers, for a student who has 1-10 solid and needs the next range with a data sheet and graph already behind it.

The Three Levels

• Level 1 — 12 cards, counts 11 to 13, two numeral boxes. The wrong numeral is never next to the count, so the first cards are nearly impossible to get wrong.
• Level 2 — 12 cards, counts 13 to 16, three numeral boxes. The wrong ones are never closer than two away from the count, and the right box is first on four cards, middle on four and last on four, so a child who marks the same position every time gets some wrong and a child who counts gets them right.
• Level 3 — 12 cards, counts 15 to 20, four numeral boxes, and one of them is the numeral right next to the count — the box a child lands on after skipping a picture or counting one twice. Touching each picture while counting is the habit this level rewards.

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 and nobody at a shared table can see who has the two-box cards.

The Objects

• Level 1 (counts 11–13): apples, ribbons, crowns, gems, trophies, kites, penguins, rabbits, snails, ladybugs, clovers, candles
• Level 2 (counts 13–16): pigs, sheep, snowmen, shoes, crabs, flowers, mugs, volleyballs, bells, owls, watermelons, cacti
• Level 3 (counts 15–20): pears, carrots, bees, turtles, cupcakes, umbrellas, pencils, crayons, tulips, snowflakes, chicks, cats
• Number strip (never a card): bananas

Every object is one discrete thing a young child names in one word; every codepoint used exists in both the color set and the black-and-white set. Rendered and looked at, page by page, in both sets: every card is legible at print size and at the 250px thumbnail size.

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 cards themselves are a print task — the numeral boxes are printed squares a child circles, clips or covers, not type-in fields — and laminated cards take a dry-erase marker. The card pages and strips 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 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 numeral marked.

Who This Is For

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

More In The Collection

The Task Box Collection also has the Counting 1-10 Picture Task Box on the same shape, and ten sort boxes (food vs not food, big vs small, living vs not living, and more). New sets are added to the collection regularly.

Pictures (color pages): Noto Emoji by Google, Apache License 2.0. Pictures (ink-saver pages): Fluent Emoji, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, MIT License.