Apple Match and Flip Books | Back to School Color Shape Counting | SLP SPED
Product Description
These Apple Match and Flip Books build foundational matching skills with a hands-on, low-prep adapted book format. Students flip through apple-themed pages to practice matching by color, shape, number, AND emotion — four different matching subskills in one engaging apple set. Perfect for back to school AND fall. Features big pieces for little hands and students with fine motor challenges.
🍎 Perfect for:
- Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) targeting matching, attributes, emotion identification, and color/shape/number vocabulary goals
- Special Education teachers building back to school, apple, and fall units
- Autism classrooms needing structured, repeatable work tasks
- Occupational Therapists working on visual discrimination and fine motor skills
- ABA therapists running discrete trial and matching programs
- Early Childhood, Pre-K, and Kindergarten teachers introducing matching concepts
- Math Intervention and RTI / MTSS teachers (counting + shapes)
- Homeschool families with young learners
🍏 What's Included — 4 Match and Flip Books:
- Match the Apples by Color (Color Matching)
- Match the Apples by Emotion (Emotion / Expression Matching)
- Match the Apples by Shape (Shape Matching)
- Count the Seeds (Number / Counting Matching)
🎯 Skills Targeted:
Visual discrimination, picture-to-picture matching, color matching and color identification, shape matching and shape recognition, number recognition and counting, emotion identification (matching by expression), 1-to-1 correspondence, apple and fall vocabulary, receptive language, following directions, fine motor skills (Velcro manipulation), and independent work skills.
How to Use:
Print, laminate, and add Velcro for years of use. Students remove pieces from the storage page, look at the target on each page, and match the correct piece. Perfect for independent work bins, morning tubs, structured teaching trials, speech therapy sessions, or center rotations. The big-piece format makes this resource accessible to young students and students with fine motor challenges.
🍂 Ways to Use:
- Independent work systems and TEACCH tasks
- Back to school and apple thematic units
- Fall and Johnny Appleseed units
- Speech therapy warm-ups and matching drills
- Math centers (counting seeds and shapes)
- ABA discrete trial training
- Morning tubs and centers
- OT visual scanning and fine motor sessions
- Early finisher activities
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