CVC Word to Picture Match Task Box

About this resource

EVERYTHING INSIDE — 22 pages

• 12 word-to-picture match cards across 3 levels: each card shows ONE three-letter CVC word on a word tile and a row of picture tiles under it — the child reads the word and marks the picture it names
• 14 short-vowel CVC words in the box: cat, dog, pig, bat, bed, hat, bus, van, pen, pin, tub, web, rat, box — 12 of them are the word on a card, all 14 appear as pictures
• Every card twice: full-color pictures (Google Noto Emoji) for a laminated classroom box and black-and-white line art (Fluent Emoji High Contrast) for the photocopier — a page is all one set or all the other, never mixed
• A word-to-picture reference strip (color and ink-saver): all 14 words, each over its own picture, in a four-wide grid — a card never prints a word beside its picture, so the strip is the one place a stuck child can check
• An answer key listing every card by level, with every picture on the card named left to right and the right one in bold, plus the full word list
• A task box data sheet (16 rows: date, level, cards used, cards correct, cards given, percent, help given, initials)
• A percent graph, 14 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 the same "Read it. Which picture?" prompt
• A phrase bank: spoken lines for running the box and written starters for the note afterward, in 6 groups
• Start Here, a contents page with page thumbnails, and a "what's next" back page

A matching-pair card, not a two-bin sort: the collection's beginning-sound boxes sort pictures by their first sound; this box goes the other way — the child reads a whole three-letter word and finds the one picture it names. Picture tiles carry no words, so there is nothing to letter-match; the word has to be read.

Three Levels, Each Testing Something Different

• Level 1 — two pictures to choose from. The wrong picture is a different kind of thing altogether (an animal beside an object) and its word shares neither the first letter nor the vowel with the target, so the first cards are nearly impossible to get wrong.
• Level 2 — three pictures. No wrong picture's word starts with the target's first letter or has its vowel, but two animals or two objects can now sit together, and the right picture's position changes card to card, so position is never a shortcut.
• Level 3 — four pictures with a near-miss: one wrong picture's word starts with the same letter as the target or has the same vowel (bat beside bed, pin beside pig, web beside bed) — the picture a child lands on after reading only the first letter, or only the middle, of the word.

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.

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 strip 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 is not a phonics program: it carries no lesson, no letter-sound teaching, 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 picture the word names marked.

Who This Is For

Special education teachers and paraprofessionals running independent work stations or task box rotations with students reading their first three-letter words, 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, phonics and number-sense boxes are being added to the collection regularly, all on the same cards-plus-data shape.