Category Naming and Classification Picture Cards 2

About this resource

A picture card for every item on the probe, organized by category, so a child who cannot yet read a word list still has something to look at — and every card asks for two things: what the item is, and what group it belongs to. This is the smaller, two-category companion to the original Category Naming and Classification Picture Cards: 8 items across 2 categories (Animals; Everyday Objects), not 15 across 5 — a simpler entry point into the same naming-and-classifying task, built entirely from a different, non-overlapping word bank.

WHAT IS INCLUDED — 19 pages, 343 type-in fields

Picture Cards

• 8 picture cards in full color across 2 categories — Animals (poodle, ram, mosquito, scorpion) and Everyday Objects (broom, toolbox, file cabinet, bolt) — large, each card's own category name printed on it, 4 cards to a row so one category fills one row, touching cut-apart pieces with a dashed cut line
• The same 8 cards again as an ink-saver set in pure black outlines, for the photocopier
• A note printed on both card pages naming the 5 pictures a young child may name another way (poodle "dog," ram "sheep," mosquito "bug," file cabinet "drawers," bolt "screws") so the scoring rule is decided once, before the first probe

Probe And Track

• 2 quick picture probe forms (A, B), 4 pictures each — two items from every category on each form, so every form tests classification across the whole bank — untimed, item and category each marked correct / error / approximation separately; Forms A and B together are the whole 8-item bank with no overlap
• Full-Deck Probe — all 8 items on one sheet, scored at item level and category level, with a verbatim column for what was actually said
• Data Log — 17 rows: date, form, correct, out of, percent, notes
• Percent Graph — 14 probes across, 0–100 percent grid, a field for the team's own criterion
• Caseload Summary — 16 rows: student, level, baseline, current, trend, decision

Share And Write

• Practice at Home — a family update built from four of the same pictures used in session (two per category), a weekly practice table, and lines for the groups a family noticed outside of practice time
• Phrase Bank — 18 observable-language starters across 5 groups (accuracy, what was said, carryover, the log and graph, the caseload page)
• Filled Example — an invented student, eight probes, every percent re-counted from its own row

What This Is, And What It Is Not

It is a fillable PDF: type into the log, graph, caseload page, family page, and probe-form headers, or print and use a pen. It works offline with no account or subscription. It is NOT an editable online slideshow or word-processor document, and it is not a norm-referenced or standardized test.

It carries no elicitation, cueing or modeling script. It does not decide what counts as a correct item or category name, a criterion, or a typical rate for category naming — every one of those is this clinician's own call, written once and reused every session. The category labels printed on the cards (Animals, Everyday Objects) are a working set, not a fixed rule; use your own goal's wording if it differs. Pictures replace the printed word list a child cannot yet read; they do not replace the clinician's scoring rule.

Who This Is For

Speech-language pathologists and special education teams with young or pre-reading students on a category naming, classification, or receptive-expressive vocabulary goal who want a shorter, two-group starting deck, and the families who get the practice page sent home.

Pictures: Noto Emoji by Google, Apache License 2.0 (color); Fluent Emoji by Microsoft, MIT License (ink-saver black and white).