Functional Vocabulary Matching Binder: Toys

About this resource

EVERYTHING INSIDE — 19 pages, 120 type-in fields

• An "I Want to Play" board: three request slots (I want, I am playing with, All done, I played with) and an eight-picture match — with its own 8 cut-apart cards on the same sheet
• An "Outside or Inside Toy Sort" board: two category slots (This is an outside toy / This is an inside toy), a 4-picture outside-toys grid and a 4-picture inside-toys grid — with 4 outside cards and 4 inside cards
• Both boards twice: a full-color set for a laminated binder and a black-and-white ink-saver set for the photocopier
• 32 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: the same request-and-sort cards, sized 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 toy-vocabulary binder built for two skills at once: naming/requesting (I want, I am playing with) and sorting (outside toy or inside toy), 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 requesting and sorting turns into a week of counts a case manager can bring to a meeting.

The Boards

• I Want to Play (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 requesting phrases, and an eight-picture match (soccer ball, basketball, teddy bear, kite, yo-yo, balloon, drum, puzzle piece): the child matches the identical card onto its picture.
• Outside or Inside Toy Sort (page 9 in color, page 10 in ink-saver) — two slots sort each card onto "This is an outside toy" or "This is an inside toy," then two picture grids (4 outside, 4 inside) check the match.

The Words

• Toy cards (8): soccer ball, basketball, teddy bear, kite, yo-yo, balloon, drum, puzzle piece
• Outside toys cards (4): soccer ball, basketball, kite, balloon
• Inside toys cards (4): teddy bear, yo-yo, drum, puzzle piece
• Home page — the same eight words, sized for the kitchen table

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. Two candidates from the original word list were tried and dropped for this reason: a "building blocks" picture whose real Unicode name is "Brick" and whose art is an offset brick-wall pattern, not toy blocks, in both sets; and a "doll" picture whose real Unicode name is "Nesting dolls" — a matryoshka figure, not a generic toy doll, in both sets. Three replacement words (balloon, drum, puzzle piece) were checked the same way and kept — see the module docstring for the full record, including three further candidates (robot, racing car/train, baseball) tried and set aside as a weaker fit for this specific board.

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 pairs naturally with the Clothing vs Toys Sort Task Box; more matching binders and sort task boxes are being added to the Morning Work & Adapted Books 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.