Visual Discrimination File Folder Games Set 2 | Shadow Matching | OT SLP SPED
Product Description
Practice visual discrimination skills with these Shadow Matching File Folder Games (Set 2). Students match each picture to its shadow — a foundational visual-perceptual skill — across 10 different file folder games featuring fruits, veggies, pets, birds, and fish. The cute graphics work in morning tubs, centers, and independent work stations all year long.
🍎 Perfect for:
- Occupational Therapists (OTs) targeting visual discrimination, visual-perceptual skills, figure-ground, and visual scanning goals
- Special Education teachers building visual discrimination and independent work skills
- Autism classrooms working on visual matching and independent work tasks
- Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) targeting food, pet, and animal vocabulary and categorization goals
- ABA therapists running discrete trial matching programs
- Early Childhood, Pre-K, and Kindergarten teachers
- ELL/ESL teachers building food and animal vocabulary
- Homeschool families with young learners
🐶 What's Included — 10 Shadow Match File Folder Games:
- Fruits and Veggies Shadows Match 1 & 2
- Just Fruits Shadows Match 1 & 2
- Pets Shadows Match 1 & 2
- Birds Shadows Match 1 & 2
- Fish Shadows Match 1 & 2
🎯 Skills Targeted:
Visual discrimination, shadow / silhouette matching, figure-ground discrimination, visual-perceptual skills, visual scanning, food/fruit/vegetable vocabulary, pet/bird/fish vocabulary, categorization, following directions, fine motor skills, and independent work skills.
How to Use:
Print, laminate, and assemble as matching mats or binder activities (or add Velcro for file folders). Students use their visual discrimination skills to match each picture to its correct shadow. Use one game at a time for focused practice or rotate through all 10 as a complete visual discrimination center. Works as independent work, morning tubs, or small group instruction.
🐟 Ways to Use:
- OT visual-perceptual and visual discrimination sessions
- Visual discrimination IEP goal practice and data collection
- Independent work systems (TEACCH)
- Speech therapy food, pet, and animal vocabulary sessions
- ABA discrete trial matching training
- Morning tubs, centers, and early finisher activities
- Food/nutrition, pets, birds, fish, and ocean thematic units
- ESL/ELL food and animal vocabulary lessons
- Take-home and tele-therapy practice
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