Fruits and Vegetables Matching Binder

About this resource

EVERYTHING INSIDE — 19 pages, 113 type-in fields

• A fruits board: three request slots (I want, I am eating, All done, I had) and a seven-picture match — with its own 7 cut-apart cards on the same sheet
• A vegetables board: the same three request slots and a six-picture match — with its own 6 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
• 21 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 nine divider tabs (three of them blank)
• A home version: a smaller set of the same request-and-sort cards (8 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 fruits-and-vegetables vocabulary binder built for naming and requesting food at two separate, dedicated boards, each with its own tracker row. Most matching binders stop at the board; this one adds the tracker, the family update and the phrase bank behind it, so a unit's worth of naming turns into a week of counts a case manager can bring to a meeting.

The Boards

• Fruits (page 6 in color, page 7 in ink-saver) — the board stays whole above a cut line; the card band below cuts apart. Three slots for naming/requesting phrases, and a seven-picture match (apple, banana, grapes, strawberry, watermelon, pineapple, pear): the child matches the identical card onto its picture.
• Vegetables (page 9 in color, page 10 in ink-saver) — the same three request slots, and a six-picture match (carrot, broccoli, tomato, bell pepper, onion, mushroom).

The Words

• Fruits cards (7): apple, banana, grapes, strawberry, watermelon, pineapple, pear
• Vegetables cards (6): carrot, broccoli, tomato, bell pepper, onion, mushroom
• Home page — a smaller subset: 4 fruit cards, 4 vegetable cards

Every picture was chosen to be named in one word by a young child, in color AND in the black-and-white set; a word that failed in either set was left out of both. Orange was tried and dropped: Unicode's own name for the codepoint is "Tangerine," not "Orange," and the black-and-white picture is a plain circle with no mark inside it at all — not nameable as anything in particular on its own. Mushroom, bell pepper and onion were added to bring the vegetable board up from 3 words to 6 (see the module docstring for the full candidate list and every drop reason). At 13 total words the fruits board (7) and vegetables board (6) are an honest, uneven split rather than a padded 6/6.

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.