Basic Emotion - Identical Matching
by ABAmadeSimple © 2026
Price: $0.25 USD
Subjects: sel,speech,specialed,specialAba,specialExecutiveFunctions,emotionalAndBehavioralSkills,Special Autism
Grades: 0
Description
Help learners strengthen emotion recognition and visual discrimination skills with this engaging identical matching activity! Students will drag and drop real-life emotion pictures to match corresponding emotion photographs that show the same feeling. This resource targets four basic emotions: • Happy • Mad • Sad • Tired The activity includes 3 different exemplars of each emotion for a total of 12 real-life images. To promote generalization and flexible responding, each emotion is presented in 3 different field-of-4 array presentations, allowing learners to practice matching emotions across a variety of faces and expressions. Students will use drag-and-drop skills to match pictures showing the same emotion. Perfect for: • ABA therapy • Speech therapy • Special education • Early childhood classrooms • Social-emotional learning Skills Targeted: • Identical matching • Emotion recognition • Visual discrimination • Attending skills • Generalization across multiple exemplars • Drag-and-drop matching Features: ✓ Real-life photographs ✓ Field of 4 answer choices ✓ 12 unique emotion images ✓ 3 exemplars of each emotion ✓ 3 different array presentations for each emotion ✓ Interactive drag-and-drop format ✓ Multiple opportunities for practice and mastery Learners will build confidence identifying emotions across different people while developing important matching, discrimination, and social-emotional skills.