Category Naming and Classification Picture Cards

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 classifies ACROSS categories on one deck (five categories of three items each), not within a single category at a time.

WHAT IS INCLUDED — 19 pages, 436 type-in fields

Picture Cards

• 15 picture cards in full color across 5 categories — Animals (dog, cat, cow), Food (apple, banana, carrot), Clothing (shirt, shoe, hat), Vehicles (car, bus, train), Household (chair, bed, door) — large, one item under each, grouped under its category label, dashed cut-apart border
• The same 15 cards again as an ink-saver set in pure black outlines, for the photocopier
• A note printed on both card pages naming the 2 pictures a young child may name another way (shirt "T-shirt," shoe "sneaker") so the scoring rule is decided once, before the first probe

Probe And Track

• 3 quick picture probe forms (A, B, C), 5 pictures each — one item 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, B and C together are the whole 15-item bank with no overlap
• Full-Deck Probe — all 15 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 five of the same pictures used in session (one 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, Food, Clothing, Vehicles, Household) 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, 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).