Lunar New Year Matching Binder

About this resource

EVERYTHING INSIDE — 19 pages, 120 type-in fields

• A Lunar New Year Request board: three request/identify slots (I want, I see, Show me) and a six-picture match — with its own 6 cut-apart cards on the same sheet
• An At the Parade or At Home board: two sort slots and two three-picture grids on the same six Lunar New Year words, split by where each thing is most often seen or done — 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
• 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 9 divider tabs (3 of them blank)
• A home version: the same six-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 Lunar New Year vocabulary binder built on one six-word bank (red envelope, red paper lantern, dragon, firecracker, fireworks, dumpling) run through two different boards — naming and requesting any of the six at the first board, then sorting the same six by where each is most often seen or done 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.

Lunar New Year is celebrated by many cultures and communities — including Chinese, Vietnamese and Korean traditions — with different customs, foods and dates each year. This binder does not describe any one country's or family's traditions in particular; the six words are common, widely pictured sights across those celebrations.

The Boards

• Lunar New Year 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 six-picture match (red envelope, red paper lantern, dragon, firecracker, fireworks, dumpling): the child matches the identical card onto its picture.
• At the Parade or At Home (page 9 in color, page 10 in ink-saver) — two sort slots ("This happens at the parade," "This happens at home") and two three-picture grids on the same six Lunar New Year words, so the exact six words appear on both boards (see WHY "AT THE PARADE OR AT HOME" IS A USE SPLIT, below).

The Words

• Lunar New Year request cards (6): red envelope, red paper lantern, dragon, firecracker, fireworks, dumpling
• Parade cards (3): dragon, firecracker, fireworks
• At-home cards (3): red envelope, red paper lantern, dumpling
• Home page — parade cards (3) and at-home cards (3): the same six words, split the same way

Every picture was chosen to be named in one or two words by a young child, in color AND in the black-and-white set.

WHY "AT THE PARADE OR AT HOME" IS A USE SPLIT, NOT A RULE ABOUT EVERY CELEBRATION

The second board sorts by where each of these six things is most often seen or done, not by a rule about every celebration everywhere: the dragon, the firecracker and the fireworks are things set off or performed outside, in a street or a parade; the red envelope, the red paper lantern and the dumpling are things given, hung or eaten at home. Lunar New Year is marked differently by different families and communities — this board is only a claim about a common, widely pictured use for each of these six things, the same kind of checkable, use-based split this collection's other sort boards (on-the-road-or-not, outside-or-inside toy, sit-or-lie-on-it-or-not) already use.

Word-Bank Note

The six words here — red envelope, red paper lantern, dragon, firecracker, fireworks, dumpling — were each re-checked (real Unicode name, both the color and ink-saver picture set, and looked at rendered) before entering this module, and checked against every other live sibling's word list; none collides with a sibling at the same codepoint.

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 parade-or-home sort is a claim about a common use for each picture, not a rule about every celebration 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.