Sports Matching Binder

About this resource

EVERYTHING INSIDE — 19 pages, 113 type-in fields

• A Sports Request board: three request slots (I want, We are playing, All done, we played) and a six-picture match — with its own 6 cut-apart cards on the same sheet
• A Which Sport? Identification board: three identification slots (Show me, That one is, My favorite is) and a second six-picture match on the same six-word bank — 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 (6 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

A sports-vocabulary binder built on one six-word bank (football, baseball, volleyball, tennis, hockey, bowling) run through two different boards — requesting any of the six at the first board, then identifying the same six from a named or shown prompt 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

• Sports 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 slots (I want, We are playing, All done, we played), and a six-picture match (football, baseball, volleyball, tennis, hockey, bowling): the child matches the identical card onto its picture.
• Which Sport? Identification (page 9 in color, page 10 in ink-saver) — three identification slots (Show me, That one is, My favorite is), and the same six-picture match printed and cut as its own second set of cards: the adult names or shows a sport and the child finds or matches the card, a receptive task rather than the first board's expressive request.

The Words

• Sports request cards (6): football, baseball, volleyball, tennis, hockey, bowling
• Which Sport? identification cards (6): football, baseball, volleyball, tennis, hockey, bowling
• Home page — the same six-word bank, one size down: 6 cards

Every picture was chosen to be named in one word by a young child, in color AND in the black-and-white set. Soccer ball and basketball were dropped outright: both are already cut-apart cards on this store's own Toys Matching Binder, and a card that already carries a name on one binder does not get a second, different-context binder. A "ball sports vs. not" split was tried for a second board and dropped: five of the six words (football, baseball, volleyball, tennis, bowling) are played with a ball and only one (hockey) is played with a puck, which is not an honest two-sided sort — a five-to-one split teaches nothing a plain request board does not already teach. The second board instead keeps the full six-word bank and changes the task: the first board is a request (the child asks), the second is an identification (the adult names or shows the sport and the child finds the matching card) — a real difference in what is practiced, not a relabeled repeat. Every word bank tuple in every sibling module in this collection was checked for a repeated codepoint before this bank was finalized; none of the six collides with another sibling's 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. Neither board assumes any student plays, watches or has ever seen any of the six sports — every prompt is a picture-naming or picture-identification request, not a fact about the child. 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.