Snack Choice Board for Special Education

About this resource

EVERYTHING INSIDE — 21 pages, 235 type-in fields

• One Snack Choice Board with a CHOICES panel and a MY CHOICE panel, plus two desk-size boards on one sheet for a folder or a second student — the same board for any snack time, so only which cards go in it changes
• 5 choice cards, 2 inches square, sized for velcro dots: pretzel, juice, grapes, cookie, popcorn — with an at-a-glance reference table and a sample pairing to start from
• Every card twice: a full-color set and a black-and-white ink-saver set for the photocopier
• 12 blank choice cards with a type-in word line, for any snack choice the printed set does not cover
• A how-to page: before the first day, the two moves every time, how many choices to offer, starting with the right pair, writing down what changes, what to do when a student changes their mind
• A Choice Log (16 rows: date, time, choices offered, choice made, made independently Y/N, initials)
• A weekly roll-up (8 weeks) with a percent-made-independently graph
• A filled example — an invented student, one school week on the log and three weeks on the roll-up, every percent re-counted from its own row
• A family page with a kitchen-size board and all five snack choices on one sheet
• A hand-off page so a paraprofessional, a lunchroom monitor or another classroom runs the same board the same way
• A phrase bank: 20 lines in 5 groups (spoken lines for the board, written starters for the log, the roll-up and the note home)
• A storage and binder label sheet: 10 labels and a spine strip
• Start Here, a contents page with page thumbnails, and a "what's next" back page

The Cards

• Snack choices (5) — pretzel, juice, grapes, cookie, popcorn

Every picture was chosen to be named in one word by a young child, in color AND in the black-and-white set. The juice card's picture is a boxed drink with a straw, drawn identically in both sets; "cookie," "pretzel" and "grapes" are single, unmistakable shapes. Cards are 2 inches square; the board slots are 2.25 inches so a card sits inside with room for a velcro dot.

The Board

• Snack Choice Board — a CHOICES panel and a MY CHOICE panel with name and date fields.
• Two desk-size snack choice boards — two boards on one sheet, cut apart, for a folder or a second student.

The boards carry no pictures, so they print the same in color or black and white. There is no request card and no all-done pocket: nothing is being asked for and nothing ends — a student is simply offered two or more real snack options and picks one.

What This Is, And What It Is Not

It is a fillable PDF: type into the board's name field, the log, the roll-up, the family page, the hand-off page and the blank cards, or print and use a pen. The card pages 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.

It is a way to offer a student a real choice between concrete snack options, and a place to write down which one they picked. It is not a request-to-leave system, a reward chart, a point system with rules, or a program of any kind, and it promises no outcome. It carries no prompt hierarchy, fading schedule or mastery rule; how the board is used with a student, and for how long, is what your team's plan says. The goal line and the criterion field are blanks for your district's own wording and your team's own number. The log counts one thing: whether the choice was made on the student's own.

Who This Is For

Special education teachers and paraprofessionals who build choice-making into snack time with early, pre-reading or emerging-language students, case managers who need that use to show up as data, and the families who get the home page sent home.

More In The Collection

This is a single in the Visual Supports Collection, alongside Choice Board and Snack, Play and Work Picture Cards (the three-context version), Snack Time Routine Visual Schedule Cards (a step sequence, not a choice board), First-Then Board and Activity Picture Cards, and Break Cards and Choice Board; more picture-card sets are being added to the collection regularly, all on the same cards-plus-data shape.

Pictures (color pages): Noto Emoji by Google, Apache License 2.0. Pictures (ink-saver pages): Fluent Emoji, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, MIT License.