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Functional Sight Words Matching Mats: Kitchen Words | Real Photos for Life Skills, Cooking & Recipe Reading

An engaging functional sight words resource for kitchen and cooking vocabulary — featuring 6 matching mats focused on words students will encounter in the kitchen with REAL PHOTOS throughout! This versatile set teaches students to recognize functional sight words for cooking, following recipes, kitchen tools, and food preparation — building independence, life skills, and functional reading.

With TWO levels of matching built in (Level 1 with visual support, Level 2 with words only), this resource serves a wide range of reading abilities.

★ Perfect for: Special Education Teachers, Autism Classrooms, Self-Contained Classrooms, Life Skills Classes, Transition Classrooms, Resource Rooms, Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs), Occupational Therapists (OTs), Reading Intervention, Paraprofessionals, ABA Therapists, ELL/ESL Teachers, Cooking Class Teachers, Early Childhood, PreK, Preschool, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, and Transition Programs

What's Included:

• 6 Matching Mats focused on kitchen/cooking words
• REAL PHOTOS throughout — authentic kitchen imagery
• TWO levels of differentiation:
  • Level 1: Word + visual support (for emerging readers)
  • Level 2: Words only (for more advanced readers)

• Multi-format assembly options — matching mats, binder, file folder game, or workstation task!

Skills Targeted:

• Functional sight word recognition for kitchen/cooking
• Kitchen vocabulary (utensils, tools, ingredients, appliances)
• Cooking vocabulary
• Recipe reading (a real-world life skill!)
• Functional reading for independence
• Sight word matching (word-to-picture and word-to-word)
• Visual discrimination
• Receptive and expressive language
• Following directions
• Independent work skills
• Real-world application for transition and life skills
• Cooking and food preparation skills

How to Use This Functional Sight Words Set:

This resource is incredibly versatile — assemble in multiple formats:

• Use as-is (printable matching mats)
• Binder format (assemble into a binder for portable use)
• File folder game (glue inside file folders for center use)
• Workstation task (perfect for independent work systems)

Students match the correct functional sight word to each real photo. Use the leveled options to differentiate.

Ways to Use:

• Life skills cooking instruction
• Functional reading lessons
• Recipe reading practice (pre-teaching recipe vocabulary)
• Transition program activities
• Cooking class vocabulary instruction
• Independent work systems
• Centers and learning stations
• Small group instruction
• 1:1 teaching sessions
• Speech therapy (functional vocabulary, kitchen vocabulary!)
• Occupational therapy
• ELL/ESL functional vocabulary instruction
• Para-led skill practice

For more functional sight word matching mats, please see the link below.

Functional Sight Words Matching Mats