Insects and Bugs Matching Binder

About this resource

EVERYTHING INSIDE — 19 pages, 113 type-in fields

• A Bugs I See 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 Flies or Stays on the Ground sort board: two sort slots and two picture-match grids (bugs that stay on the ground; bugs that fly) — 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 sort board's two groups at full size (7 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

An insects-and-bugs vocabulary binder built on one seven-word bank (ant, snail, worm, cricket, beetle, mosquito, fly) run through two different boards — naming and requesting any of the seven at the first board, then sorting the same seven by whether the bug stays on the ground or flies 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

• Bugs I See (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 (ant, snail, worm, cricket, beetle, mosquito, fly): the child matches the identical card onto its picture.
• Flies or Stays on the Ground (page 9 in color, page 10 in ink-saver) — two sort slots (This bug stays on the ground, This bug flies), and two picture-match grids: a five-picture grid for the ground group (ant, snail, worm, cricket, beetle) and a two-picture grid for the flying group (mosquito, fly) — the same seven words, sorted by what each picture actually shows.

The Words

• Bugs I See cards (7): ant, snail, worm, cricket, beetle, mosquito, fly
• Ground sort cards (5): ant, snail, worm, cricket, beetle
• Flying sort cards (2): mosquito, fly
• Home page — the sort board's two groups at full size: 5 ground cards, 2 flying cards

Every picture was chosen to be named in one word by a young child, in color AND in the black-and-white set, and checked against its real Unicode and Fluent name before it was placed on a board: ant, snail, worm, cricket (the Fluent set's own folder name is "Cricket," not "grasshopper" — a different insect, so it is never called that here), beetle, mosquito and fly all check out cleanly. All seven bugs on the CEO's list passed; none were dropped. The sort board's split is a fact about each picture, not an invented category: ant, snail, worm, cricket and beetle are all shown on the ground in both sets (a cricket's own picture is not shown flying, so it sorts with the ground group rather than being forced into "crawls," which is not accurate for how a cricket actually moves), and mosquito and fly are both shown with wings, in flight, in both sets. The same seven-word bank is printed as cut-apart cards twice — once for the request board, once for the sort board — for 14 classroom cards plus 7 home-page cards, 21 in all; this is an honest seven-word bank run through two board types, not a padded 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 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.