Is and Are Picture Cards

About this resource

One figure is doing something. Several figures are doing the same thing. Which small word goes in the blank, "is" or "are"? Twelve verbs, each with a ONE card (one figure, "One ____ running.") and a MANY card (three of the same figure, "Many ____ running."): 24 cut-apart cards in full color and again in ink-saver black and white. The file also has a sort mat and three student sheets a child can work on with a pencil, four probe forms that mark the ONE cards and the MANY cards apart, 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 -- 26 pages, 413 type-in fields

The Picture Cards

• 24 cards in full color on 2 pages: 12 verbs (run, dance, sleep, sing, walk, climb, cry, cook, swim, ski, ride, sit), each a ONE card and a MANY card
• The same 24 cards again on 2 ink-saver pages in pure black outlines, for the photocopier
• Cards are big cut-apart pieces laid edge to edge, 4 across and 3 down, so cutting is a few straight lines
• The frame is printed on each card with a blank; the answer is never printed on a card. A note under the cards names the 5 pictures a child may name another way (sleep, sing, cook, ride, sit)

Student Pages

• Sort mat with two big boxes, "is" and "are", for the cut cards
• 3 student sheets with a My name line, one short instruction and big pictures: circle the picture that matches the sentence, circle "is" or "are", and circle then write the whole sentence on primary writing lines (4 items each, a different set of 4 verbs on each sheet)

Probe And Track

• 3 quick probe forms (A, B, C), 4 verbs and 8 cards each, no verb on two forms -- together the whole 12-verb deck
• Full-Deck Probe -- all 12 verbs, a mark for the ONE card and a mark for the MANY card, a column for what the child said word for word, and an answer key for the student sheets
• 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 (one figure and the group of three), a weekly practice table, and lines for what a family heard outside of practice time
• Phrase Bank -- 23 observable-language starters across 6 groups (accuracy, what was said, carryover, the log and graph, the family page, 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 covers is and are only.

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 using is and are -- every one of those is your own call, written once and reused every session. The ONE cards and the MANY cards are marked and tracked apart, because a child can get one right without the other.

Who This Is For

Speech-language pathologists, special education teachers and paraprofessionals with young or pre-reading students who are working on is and are with one figure and with more than one, 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).