Fruit, Vegetable and Meal Picture Cards

About this resource

One big card for every food: the picture and its name. Twenty-four cut-apart cards (6 fruits, 8 vegetables and 10 meal foods: grapes, watermelon, broccoli, potato, pizza, hamburger, pretzel and seventeen more), each in full color and again in ink-saver black and white. The file also has four student pages a child can work on with a pencil and glue, five probe forms that mark the food's name and its group (fruit, vegetable or meal) separately, and a log, graph and caseload page. The file never decides what counts as a correct answer; that stays your own scoring rule.

WHAT IS INCLUDED -- 25 pages, 563 type-in fields

The Food Cards

• 24 food cards in full color. Fruit (6): grapes, watermelon, pineapple, pear, cherries, strawberry. Vegetable (8): eggplant, potato, broccoli, onion, mushroom, bell pepper, tomato, cucumber. Meal (10): hamburger, pizza, hot dog, sandwich, fries, bread, croissant, pretzel, bagel, drumstick. Each card is a big cut-apart piece laid edge to edge in a 6-across, 4-down grid, so cutting is a few straight lines
• The same 24 cards again as an ink-saver set in pure black outlines, for the photocopier
• A note under the cards names the 9 pictures a child may name another way (mushroom, bell pepper, tomato, cucumber, hamburger, fries, bread, bagel, drumstick) and how the file groups them (tomato, cucumber, eggplant and bell pepper with the vegetables, as a grocery store does; breads and fries with the meal foods), so you can decide once how to mark them

Student Pages

• 3 "Circle the Food" pages with a My name line, one short instruction and big pictures to circle: two choices (4 questions), three choices (4 questions), and three choices plus two primary writing lines for writing a food's name (4 questions)
• 1 cut-and-glue sort page: three boxes (Fruit, Vegetable, Meal), nine foods cut from a block of touching pieces, and the child glues each food in its box
• The answers are on the full-deck probe page

Probe And Track

• 4 quick probe forms (A, B, C, D), 6 foods each, no food on two forms -- together the whole 24-food deck. Each food is marked for the name and for the group
• Full-Deck Probe -- all 24 foods in card order with the group beside each, a mark for the name, a mark for the group, and a column for what the child said, word for word
• 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, names or groups, 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 to write down the food names a child said at home, in the family's own words
• Phrase Bank -- 20 observable-language starters across 5 groups (accuracy, what was said, carryover, the log and graph, the caseload page)
• Filled Example -- an invented student, eight sessions, 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 is a picture-card and data set for food names and groups; it is not a box-and-pieces sorting task, and it has no story and no hook-and-loop pieces.

It carries no elicitation, cueing or modeling script. It does not decide what counts as a correct name or group, a criterion, or a typical rate for either -- every one of those is your own call, written once and reused every session. Pictures replace the printed word list a child cannot yet read; they do not replace your scoring rule. The file makes no statement about what any child should eat.

Who This Is For

Speech-language pathologists, special education teachers and paraprofessionals with young or pre-reading students who are working on food words and sorting, 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).