Kitchen Tools Matching Binder

About this resource

EVERYTHING INSIDE — 19 pages, 120 type-in fields

• A Kitchen Tools I Use board: three request slots (I want, I am using, All done, I used) and a six-picture match — with its own 6 cut-apart cards on the same sheet
• A Helping in the Kitchen board: three request slots (I see the, Please hand me the, I put away the) and the same six-picture match again — with its own 6 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
• 18 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 six-word bank at a smaller size for the kitchen table, with a three-slot board and 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 kitchen-tools vocabulary binder built on one six-word bank (fork and knife, kitchen knife, spoon, teapot, bowl, pot of food) run through two request boards with different framing sentences — naming and requesting any of the six at the first board, then a second, "helping" framing (I see the / please hand me the / I put away the) 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

• Kitchen Tools I Use (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 slots (I want, I am using, All done, I used), and a six-picture match (fork and knife, kitchen knife, spoon, teapot, bowl, pot of food): the child matches the identical card onto its picture.
• Helping in the Kitchen (page 9 in color, page 10 in ink-saver) — the same six-picture match a second time, under a different set of three request slots (I see the, Please hand me the, I put away the), for a helping-around-the-kitchen framing rather than a category claim.

The Words

• Kitchen Tools I Use cards (6): fork and knife, kitchen knife, spoon, teapot, bowl, pot of food
• Helping in the Kitchen cards (6): fork and knife, kitchen knife, spoon, teapot, bowl, pot of food
• Home page — the same six cards at a smaller size

Every picture was chosen to be named in one word by a young child, in color AND in the black-and-white set. This bank keeps all six candidates named in the CEO's brief — none were dropped — but a second draft was tried and set aside: splitting the six words into a "sharp / not sharp" sort board. A kitchen knife is unambiguously sharp, but "fork and knife" is a combined picture where only the knife side cuts, and sorting the whole picture as sharp-or-not would ask a young child to make a judgment call this file cannot make for them, unlike the furry-or-not split on this collection's Pets binder or the getting-ready-or-room split on its Bedtime binder, which are facts about a single object. Rather than force that split, this product runs the same six-word bank through two full boards with different request framings instead (see the module docstring for the full reasoning). The same six words are printed as cut-apart cards on both boards — 12 classroom cards plus 6 home-page cards, 18 in all — an honest six-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. Every card in this file is a picture on paper; it makes no claim about which kitchen tasks any student is ready to do with a real knife or a hot pot. 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.