Household Which-Room Picture Sort

About this resource

Cut, sort and glue. This deck gives a child 18 picture cards to cut apart and sort into three rooms of a home: kitchen, bathroom or living room. The cards join edge to edge, so cutting is straight lines only, and the three rooms are mixed on the page, so the page itself never gives an answer away. Three sort mats take a child from a faint picture guide to writing the words, and the adult pages score the same sort and track it over time.

WHAT IS INCLUDED -- 23 pages, 355 type-in fields

The Picture Cards

• 18 picture cards in full color, 6 for each of the 3 rooms, each a big cut-apart piece laid out 6 across and 3 down, with the word under the picture -- Kitchen: fork, bowl, teapot, salt shaker, jar, egg; Bathroom: shower, soap, sponge, plunger, toilet paper, lotion; Living Room: couch, television, telephone, plant, window, mirror
• The same 18 cards again as an ink-saver set in pure black outlines, for the photocopier
• A note on the card pages naming the 3 pictures that show one extra object in the frame (fork also shows a knife, bowl also shows a spoon, couch also shows a lamp), so you can decide once how that is marked

Sort Mats And Answer Key

• Sort Mat 1 -- two rooms (Kitchen, Bathroom), a faint picture of every card to match, and a "draw one more thing from this room" box for each
• Sort Mat 2 -- all three rooms, with room to glue six cards in each
• Sort Mat 3 -- write the word for each card, three columns of primary handwriting lines, plus lines to write a sentence
• Every mat has a "My name" line, one short instruction with a picture, and a small level shape (a dot, a square or a triangle, not a number)
• An adult answer key: all 18 pictures under their room, with the flagged pictures noted and a line to write your own rule

Probe And Track

• 3 quick probe forms (A, B, C), 6 pictures each, two from every room, with a + / - mark for every picture and the room printed under each word. No picture is on two forms: A, B and C together are all 18 cards
• Full-Deck Probe -- all 18 cards in one sheet, the room each belongs in, a mark for each and a line for the room the child chose
• Data Log -- 17 rows: date, form, correct, out of, percent, notes
• Percent Graph -- 14 probes across, 0-100 percent grid, a field for the team's own criterion
• Caseload Summary -- 16 rows: student, last form given, baseline, current, trend, decision

Share And Write

• Sort at Home -- a family update built from six of the same pictures, a sorting activity to do together, a weekly practice table and lines for what the family noticed
• Phrase Bank -- 18 observable-language starters across 5 groups (accuracy, which room, carryover, the log and graph, the caseload page)
• Filled Example -- an invented student, eight probes, every percent re-counted from its own row

ALSO INSIDE: Start Here, a contents page with page thumbnails, four section dividers, and a "what's next" back page.

What This Is, And What It Is Not

It is a fillable PDF: print the mats and cards for the child, and type into the log, graph, caseload page, family page and probe-form fields, or print those and use a pen. It works offline with no account or subscription. It is NOT an editable online slideshow or word-processor document, and it is not a norm-referenced or standardized test.

It carries no household-safety lesson and no elicitation, cueing or modeling script. It does not decide what counts as a correct sort, a criterion, or a typical rate for this sort: every one of those is your own call, written once and reused every session. It covers three rooms of 6 pictures each; it is not a word list, and it makes no claim about any real student's own home.

Who This Is For

Special education teachers, speech-language pathologists and paraprofessionals with young or pre-reading students working on sorting household vocabulary by room, and the families who get the sorting page sent home.

Pictures: Noto Emoji by Google, Apache License 2.0 (color); Fluent Emoji by Microsoft, MIT License (ink-saver black and white).