Describing and Attributes Picture Cards

About this resource

A picture card for every object on the probe, so a child who cannot yet read a word list still has something to look at — and every card asks the same three questions: what is it, what does it look like, and what is it for. Naming the object is a good start; describing it with two or more real attributes is the target.

WHAT IS INCLUDED — 19 pages, 377 type-in fields

Picture Cards

• 12 everyday-object picture cards in full color, large, one word under each, dashed cut-apart border: ball, apple, banana, balloon, umbrella, star, heart, cloud, box, book, flower, leaf
• The same 12 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 more specifically (ball "soccer ball," flower "tulip") so the scoring rule is decided once, before the first probe

Probe And Track

• 3 quick picture probe forms (A, B, C), 6 pictures each, untimed, each picture marked on three checkboxes — Category, Looks, Use — one per attribute actually stated; Forms A and B split the 12 objects with no overlap, Form C re-mixes 6 of them in a new order
• Full-Deck Probe — all 12 objects on one sheet, scored both independent and with a cue, with a verbatim column for what was actually said
• Data Log — 17 rows: date, form, attributes given, 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, condition, baseline, current, trend, decision

Share And Write

• Practice at Home — a family update built from six of the same pictures used in session, a weekly practice table, and lines for descriptive language a family heard 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 attribute, what a cue should look like, or how many attributes a goal requires — every one of those is this clinician's own call, written once and reused every session. Pictures replace the objects a clinician would otherwise have to gather, describe or draw; 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 describing, attributes, or 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).