Summer Match and Flip Books | Shape Color Part to Whole Matching | SLP SPED
Product Description
These Summer Match and Flip Books build foundational matching skills with a hands-on, low-prep adapted book format. Students flip through colorful summer-themed pages to practice matching by shape, matching by color, AND matching part to whole — three different matching subskills across four engaging summer themes. Features big pieces for little hands and students with fine motor challenges.
☀️ Perfect for:
- Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) targeting matching, attributes, and summer/bug vocabulary goals
- Special Education teachers building summer, end-of-year, and outdoor exploration 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
- Extended School Year (ESY) summer programs
- Summer camps and homeschool families
🫧 What's Included — 4 Match and Flip Books:
- Match the Wands to the Bubbles (Matching by Shape)
- Match the Magnifying Glass to the Bugs (Matching Part to Whole)
- Match the Bugs to the Jar (Matching by Shape)
- Match the Baseballs to the Gloves (Matching by Color)
🎯 Skills Targeted:
Visual discrimination, picture-to-picture matching, shape matching and shape recognition, color matching and color identification, part-to-whole matching (a higher-order visual reasoning skill), summer vocabulary (bubbles, bugs, magnifying glass, baseball, glove, jar), 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
- Speech therapy warm-ups and matching drills
- ABA discrete trial training
- Morning tubs and centers
- OT sessions targeting visual scanning and fine motor
- Early finisher activities
- Summer, bugs, baseball, and outdoor exploration thematic units
- Extended School Year (ESY) summer therapy
- Summer camp language activities
- Homework or home practice for tele-therapy
I have just bundled all of my Match and Flip Books into two different growing bundles. You can see those bundles at the links below:
Match and Flip Books Bundle II
If your students enjoy these activities, I have a growing collection of Match and Flip Books. You can find those here:
For more hands-on spring, or summer themed activities, please see the links below.
