Match the Pairs

The classic draw-a-line matching page. What is being matched is the main setting, so one familiar layout carries many lessons: find the same picture, match a big picture to its small one, match a picture to the letter or the syllable it starts with or to its written word, join the pictures that rhyme, match a numeral to that many dots or to its number word, match a capital to its lower-case partner, or an animal to its baby. The right-hand column is always scrambled so that no answer is a straight line across the page. Letters, syllables, words and rhymes follow the picture's name in the book's language, so a Portuguese page joins the cão to the pão.

Age

ages 3–9

Answer key

Included, free

Skills

visual discriminationclassificationfine motorvocabulary

What you can change

• How many pairs

  3–8 pairs

• What is being matched

  Picture to the same picture, Big picture to small picture, Picture to its first letter, Picture to its written word, Number to that many dots, Number to its word…

• Biggest number

  5–20

• Print the names under the pictures

• Which letters

  Any letters, A to M, Easily muddled

• Letters and words shown as

  lower case, Capital first, UPPER CASE

• Around each item

  Nothing, Thin box, Shaded panel

• Every page also takes the book's language, page size, theme and pictures.