Number Word to Numeral Match Task Box

About this resource

EVERYTHING INSIDE — 22 pages

• 12 number word-to-numeral match cards across 3 levels: each card shows ONE number spelled out on a word tile and a row of plain numeral tiles under it — the child reads the word and marks the numeral it names
• Every card twice: a color-accent set for a laminated classroom box and a black-and-white outline set for the photocopier — a page is all one set or all the other, never mixed
• A number word reference strip (color and ink-saver): the numbers one through twenty, each over its own numeral, in a four-wide grid — a card never prints a word beside its numeral, so the strip is the one place a stuck child can check
• An answer key listing every card by level, with every numeral on the card named left to right and the right one in bold, plus each level's word list
• A task box data sheet (16 rows: date, level, cards used, cards correct, cards given, percent, help given, initials)
• A percent graph, 14 sessions across, with a level box under each session
• A filled example — an invented student, 8 sessions, every percent re-counted from its own row
• A family practice page with six of the same cards and the same "Read it. Which numeral?" prompt
• A phrase bank: spoken lines for running the box and written starters for the note afterward, in 6 groups, 25 lines total
• Start Here, a contents page with page thumbnails, and a "what's next" back page

No pictures anywhere in this file — every tile is plain text, so there is nothing to recognize by its picture and nothing to misname; the task is reading the word against a field of numerals.

Three Levels, Each Testing A Different Part Of Reading Number Words

• Level 1 — number words one through five, two numerals to choose from, at least four apart (two beside 2 and 7) — the first cards are nearly impossible to get wrong.
• Level 2 — number words one through ten, three numerals, each within three of the target (seven beside 6, 7 and 9), and the right numeral's position changes card to card, so position is never a shortcut.
• Level 3 — the teen and twenty words (eleven through twenty), four numerals, and every card includes the target's classic decade-word look-alike (fourteen beside 40, thirteen beside 30, sixteen beside 60, eighteen beside 80) plus that number's own digit reversal (fourteen beside 41) — the two mix-ups this skill is actually known for. Those two distractors are outside the one-to-twenty range on purpose: the point is reading the word correctly against a close numeral, not a claim that every number on the page stays under twenty.

Nothing on a card says its level except a dot code in the corner (one, two or three dots), so a mixed-up box sorts itself back together.

What This Is, And What It Is Not

It is a fillable PDF: type into the data sheet, the graph header, the family page and the example-style notes, or print and use a pen. The card pages and reference strip print on cardstock or plain paper and cut along dashed lines. 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 is not a number-sense curriculum: it carries no counting lesson, no place-value teaching, no prompt hierarchy, fading schedule or mastery rule, and it does not decide what a percent means for a student or when to move up a level. The goal line and the criterion field are blanks for your district's own wording and your team's own number. It measures one thing: cards with the numeral the number word names marked.

Who This Is For

Special education teachers and paraprofessionals running independent work stations or task box rotations with students reading number words for the first time, case managers who need that practice to show up as data, and the families who get the practice page sent home.

More In The Collection

This is one set in the Task Box Collection; more sort, counting and number-sense boxes are being added to the collection regularly, all on the same cards-plus-data shape.