Compound Words Picture Cards

About this resource

A picture for every word part, and a picture for every finished word. Each compound word gets two cut-apart cards: a PARTS card (a picture of the first small word, a plus sign, a picture of the second small word) and a WHOLE card (one picture of the finished thing). The child looks at the two little pictures and says the one big word they make -- sun + flower, sunflower -- then looks at the whole card and names that. Two different jobs, scored separately, so you can see which one to work on. This is for the child who cannot yet read a word list; the file never decides what counts as a correct answer, that stays your own scoring rule.

WHAT IS INCLUDED -- 21 pages, 397 type-in fields

Picture Cards

• 12 PARTS cards in full color, cut-apart pieces laid edge to edge in a 3-across, 4-down grid -- a few straight cuts. Two big pictures, a drawn plus sign, and each small word under its picture
• 12 WHOLE cards in full color, edge to edge in a 4-across, 3-down grid -- the finished picture, big, with the whole word under it
• The same 24 cards again as an ink-saver set in pure black outlines, for the photocopier
• 12 compound words: sunflower, cowboy, rainbow, toothbrush, snowman, popcorn, ladybug, wheelchair, football, basketball, mailbox, pancake
• 13 pictures a child may name another way (for example bow drawn as a ribbon, pop drawn as a bang, pancake drawn as a stack) are listed on the card pages, so your team decides once how to score them

Probe And Track

• 3 quick picture probe forms (A, B, C), 8 cards each -- the parts card and the whole card for four words, so the three forms together are the whole 24-card deck with no overlap
• Full-Deck Probe -- all 12 words, both cards, on one sheet, 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, type (Parts / Whole), baseline, current, trend, decision

Share And Write

• Practice at Home -- a family update built from four of the same words used in session, with the two little pictures and the big one, a weekly practice table, and lines for the compound words 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 answer, a criterion, or a typical rate for building compound words -- every one of those is this clinician's own call, written once and reused every session. 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 compound word, word-building or morphology 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). The plus sign is drawn vector art, not a licensed icon.