Parts of Speech Picture Sort

About this resource

A picture and its word on every card, and a mat to sort them onto: 8 nouns, 8 verbs and 8 adjectives, mixed together on one cut-apart page. The child cuts, sorts and glues each card into Nouns, Verbs or Adjectives. The three mats start in different places, so the same 24 cards work for a child who needs a faint twin to match and a child who is ready to write each word under its group.

WHAT IS INCLUDED -- 22 pages, 414 type-in fields

The Cards

• 24 sorting cards in full color, each a big cut-apart piece laid edge to edge in a 6-across, 4-down grid, so the whole page is 8 straight cuts -- 8 nouns (dog, apple, house, car, fish, key, bus, tree), 8 verbs (run, swim, dance, climb, walk, ski, ride, hug) and 8 adjectives (happy, sad, angry, scared, surprised, hot, sick, silly)
• The same 24 cards again as an ink-saver set in pure black outlines, for the photocopier
• The cards are mixed on the page and none is color-coded by group

Sort Mats For Students

• 3 mats with a "My name" line, one short instruction with a picture, and a star to color when finished: a circle mat with a faint matching picture in each slot, a square mat with blank boxes, and a triangle page to sort and then write each word in its group on handwriting lines

Probe And Track

• 3 quick probe forms (A, B, C), 8 cards each, cards from all three groups on every form, no card on two forms
• Full-Deck Probe -- all 24 cards on one sheet, with a total for nouns, verbs and adjectives (out of 8 each) and for all cards (out of 24)
• 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, task, baseline, current, trend, decision

Share And Write

• Practice at Home -- a family update with six of the same pictures, a weekly practice table, and lines for words a family noticed outside of practice time
• Phrase Bank -- 18 observable-language starters across 5 groups (accuracy, what was done, carryover, the log and graph, the caseload page)
• Filled Example -- an invented student, eight probes, every percent re-counted from its own row

Read This Before You Buy

The 8 adjective pictures are faces: each shows how someone looks or feels, so hot and sick sit with happy and sad. The verb pictures show a person doing the action, but several of these words can also name a thing (a walk, a hug, a dance, a ride), so you decide once how you will mark that. 9 pictures have a second name a child may say (dog: puppy, ride: bike, happy: smiling, angry: mad, scared: worried, surprised: shocked, hot: sweaty, sick: fever, silly: goofy); the word is printed on every card, and the page lists them so you can decide before the first session.

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 teaching, cueing or modeling script. It does not decide what counts as a correct sort, a criterion, or a typical rate for sorting words -- every one of those is your own call, written once and reused every session.

Who This Is For

Speech-language pathologists, special education teachers and paraprofessionals with young or pre-reading students who are working on nouns, verbs and adjectives, 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).