Household Furniture Matching Binder

About this resource

EVERYTHING INSIDE — 19 pages, 113 type-in fields

• A Furniture Request board: three request/identify slots (I want, I see, Show me) and a seven-picture match — with its own 7 cut-apart cards on the same sheet
• A Sit or Lie On It, or Not board: two sort slots and a three-picture and a four-picture grid on the same seven household things, split by what each picture shows — 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
• 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 9 divider tabs (3 of them blank)
• A home version: the same seven-word bank, split into its two sort groups, 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 household-vocabulary binder built on one seven-word bank (bed, chair, couch, door, mirror, clock, window) run through two different boards — naming and requesting any of the seven at the first board, then sorting the same seven by whether the picture shows something you can sit or lie on at the second, 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 week of matching practice turns into a week of counts a case manager can bring to a meeting.

The Boards

• Furniture 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 request/identify slots (I want, I see, Show me), and a seven-picture match (bed, chair, couch, door, mirror, clock, window): the child matches the identical card onto its picture.
• Sit or Lie On It, or Not (page 9 in color, page 10 in ink-saver) — two sort slots ("You can sit or lie on it," "You do not sit or lie on it") and a three-picture and a four-picture grid on the same seven things, so the exact seven words appear on both boards (see WHY "SIT OR LIE ON IT" IS A PICTURE SPLIT, below).

The Words

• Household request cards (7): bed, chair, couch, door, mirror, clock, window
• Sit-or-lie cards (3): bed, chair, couch
• Not-sit cards (4): door, mirror, clock, window
• Home page — sit-or-lie cards (3) and not-sit cards (4): the same seven words, split the same way

Every picture was chosen to be named in one word by a young child, in color AND in the black-and-white set. Not every word is furniture in the strict sense — door, mirror, clock and window are common household fixtures, not furniture pieces — so this binder's own pages describe the bank as "household things," never as seven pieces of furniture, alongside the two rejected candidates dropped before this word bank was set (see WORD-BANK NOTE, below).

WHY "SIT OR LIE ON IT" IS A PICTURE SPLIT, NOT A RULE ABOUT EVERY BED, CHAIR OR COUCH

The second board sorts by what each PICTURE shows, not by a rule about every real bed, chair or couch everywhere: the bed, chair and couch are all drawn with a mattress, seat or cushion a body could rest on, in both picture sets; the door, mirror, clock and window show none of that — a flat panel, a framed glass oval, a clock face, a four-pane frame. This board is only a claim about what these seven pictures show, the same kind of checkable, picture-only split this collection's other sort boards (on-the-road-or-not, has-fins-or-not, furry-or-not) already use.

Word-Bank Note

Two words this line originally considered for this binder — "rug" and "lamp" — were dropped before this file was built: the picture a first pass considered for "rug" is the identical Unicode picture that is actually named LUGGAGE (no rug glyph exists in either art set), and the picture considered for "lamp" is actually an ELECTRIC LIGHT BULB, not a furniture lamp. Rather than force either mismatch, this binder ships with seven words that were each individually confirmed under their real Unicode name, with a real picture in both this store's color and ink-saver sets, at card size.

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 sit-or-lie sort is a claim about what each picture shows, not a rule about every real bed, chair or couch everywhere. 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.