Grocery Store Matching Binder

About this resource

EVERYTHING INSIDE — 19 pages, 113 type-in fields

• A grocery-items request board: three request slots (I want, Put it in the cart, All done, I got) and an 8-picture match — with its own 8 cut-apart cards on the same sheet
• A shopping-tools-or-grocery-items sort board: two category slots (This is a shopping tool / This is a grocery item), a 3-picture tool grid and a 5-picture grocery-item grid — with 3 tool cards and 5 grocery-item cards
• Both boards twice: a full-color set for a laminated binder and a black-and-white ink-saver set for the photocopier
• 24 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 grocery-shopping vocabulary binder built for two skills at once: requesting (I want, put it in the cart) and sorting (shopping tool or grocery item), 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 requesting and sorting groceries turns into a week of counts a case manager can bring to a meeting.

The Boards

• Grocery items request (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 functional requesting phrases, and an 8-picture match (shopping cart, shopping bags, milk, bread, egg, cheese, canned food, basket): the child matches the identical card onto its picture.
• Shopping tools or grocery items (page 9 in color, page 10 in ink-saver) — two slots sort each card onto "This is a shopping tool" or "This is a grocery item," then two picture grids (3 tools, 5 grocery items) check the match.

The Words

• Grocery item cards (8): shopping cart, shopping bags, basket, milk, bread, egg, cheese, canned food
• Shopping tool cards (3): shopping cart, shopping bags, basket
• Grocery item cards, sort board (5): milk, bread, egg, cheese, canned food
• Home page — the same shopping-tool and grocery-item cards, full size (8 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. "Milk" is a glass of milk (the store's real codepoint name), the same simplified, child-facing label the store already uses for other pictures (a crescent moon called "moon," a running shoe called "shoe").

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 requesting 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 is one binder in the Morning Work & Adapted Books Collection; more matching binders (clothing, community signs, seasonal vocabulary) 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.