Family Members Matching Binder

About this resource

EVERYTHING INSIDE — 19 pages, 120 type-in fields

• A Who Is It? board: three request/identify slots (I see, Point to, Show me) and a seven-picture match — with its own 7 cut-apart cards on the same sheet
• A Kids or Grown-Ups? sort board: two sort slots and two picture-match grids (kids; grown-ups) — with its own 7 cut-apart cards on the same sheet
• Both boards twice: a full-color set for a laminated binder and a black-and-white ink-saver set for the photocopier
• 28 cut-apart picture cards in all, counting the color set and the home page once
• A weekly tracker: 8 board jobs down, Monday to Friday across, one letter per cell (no help / pointed once / said the words / not run), a "no help" count per row and a week total
• A binder organizer: a front cover, a spine strip and 9 divider tabs (3 of them blank)
• A home version: the sort board's two groups at full size (7 cards) for the kitchen table, with a seven-day "we did it" row
• A family update with a team hand-off block for the next adult who runs the binder
• A phrase bank: 24 lines in 6 groups (spoken lines for running the boards, written starters for the note afterward)
• A filled example — an invented student, one week, every count re-counted from its own row
• An answer key listing every board, the cards it takes and what correct looks like, plus the full word list (classroom set and home set)
• Start Here, a contents page with page thumbnails, and a "what's next" back page

A family-members vocabulary binder built on one seven-word bank of generic, invented age and gender figures — baby, boy, girl, Dad, Mom, Grandpa, Grandma — run through two different boards: naming and identifying any of the seven at the first board, then sorting the same seven into kids and grown-ups at the second, each with its own tracker row. These are generic pictures, not any real family and not a photograph of any student's own household — the same picture is printed for every buyer of this file. Most matching binders stop at the board; this one adds the tracker, the family update and the phrase bank behind it, so a week of matching practice turns into a week of counts a case manager can bring to a meeting.

The Boards

• Who Is It? (page 6 in color, page 7 in ink-saver) — the board stays whole above a cut line; the card band below cuts apart. Three request/identify slots (I see, Point to, Show me), and a seven-picture match (baby, boy, girl, Dad, Mom, Grandpa, Grandma): the child matches the identical card onto its picture.
• Kids or Grown-Ups? (page 9 in color, page 10 in ink-saver) — two sort slots (This is a kid, This is a grown-up), and two picture-match grids: a three-picture kids grid (baby, boy, girl) and a four-picture grown-ups grid (Dad, Mom, Grandpa, Grandma) — the same seven words, sorted by the generation label printed on each card, not by any claim about a real family.

The Words

• Who Is It? cards (7): baby, boy, girl, Dad, Mom, Grandpa, Grandma
• Kids sort cards (3): baby, boy, girl
• Grown-ups sort cards (4): Dad, Mom, Grandpa, Grandma
• Home page — the sort board's two groups at full size: 3 kids cards, 4 grown-ups cards

Every picture was chosen to be named in one word by a young child, in color AND in the black-and-white set, and to be visibly distinct from every other card on the same board (man vs. woman, older man vs. older woman) — all seven candidates in the brief passed this check and none was dropped, unlike several other binders in this collection (see the module docstring for the full record). The same seven-word bank is printed as cut-apart cards twice — once for the identify board, once for the sort board — for 14 classroom cards (7 + 3 + 4) plus 14 home-page cards (7 + 3 + 4), 28 in all; this is an honest seven-word bank run through two board types, not a padded board.

Whose Family

These seven pictures are generic, invented age and gender figures — not a photograph of any student's real family, and not a claim about who does or does not live in any student's home. No slot on either board says "I have"; every prompt is a plain picture-naming or picture-sorting instruction ("I see," "This is a kid"), never a statement about a particular child's own relatives. The start page, the key page and the home page all say this explicitly, and invite the family to swap in their own family's words alongside the generic cards.

What This Is, And What It Is Not

It is a fillable PDF: type into the tracker, the organizer, the home page and the family update, or print and use a pen. The board pages print on cardstock or plain paper; the card band cuts off the bottom and the board stays whole. 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 count means for a student or when a board is done with. The tracker counts which boards were done and what help was given, and nothing else.

Who This Is For

Special education teachers and paraprofessionals running functional-vocabulary or naming practice with early, pre-reading or low-verbal students, case managers who need that practice to show up as data, and the families who get the home page.

More In The Collection

This binder is part of the Morning Work & Adapted Books Collection; more matching binders are being added to the collection regularly, all on the same boards-plus-tracker shape.

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