Prepositions of Place Picture Cards 3

About this resource

The eight words still open on the prepositions / spatial concepts shelf. Prepositions of Motion

Picture Cards (sold separately) covers through, over, across, around; Positional Concepts Picture

Cards and Picture Cards 2 (sold separately) cover in, on, under, behind, next to, above, below,

between, in front of. This deck covers beside, near, far, outside, along, past, toward and away: a

small creature (an ant, a beetle, a worm or a cricket) shown with a landmark (a brick wall, a

mountain, a bridge, an oil drum, a barber pole, a ring buoy), one scene per word, with a

directional arrow drawn right on the scene for the four direction words.

WHAT IS INCLUDED — 19 pages, 292 type-in fields

Picture Cards

• 8 scene cards in full color, each a cut-apart card of about 1.8 inches with the target

preposition printed underneath in large type. They sit edge to edge on one page, so 4 straight

cuts free the whole deck. Beside: an ant touching a brick wall. Near: a beetle a short gap from a

mountain. Far: a worm a clearly bigger gap from a bridge. Outside: a cricket standing clear of a

solid boundary line drawn around an oil drum. Along: a beetle on top of a three-brick-wide wall,

an arrow pointing along it. Past: a worm just beyond a mountain, an arrow continuing on. Toward:

an ant approaching a barber pole, an arrow pointing at it. Away: a cricket already a distance

from a ring buoy, an arrow pointing further away.

• The same 8 scenes again as an ink-saver set in pure black shapes, for the photocopier
• A note printed on both card pages naming the 5 pictures a young child may name another way

(cricket, "the insect, not the sport"; ring buoy, "life ring"; oil drum, "barrel"; brick wall,

"wall"; barber pole, "pole") so the scoring rule is decided once, before the first probe

• Three disclosed design notes on the card pages: beside is drawn touching, the same way the first

Positional Concepts deck draws next to — a close synonym, score either word correct if your team

treats them that way; outside is the only scene in this deck's own line that draws a boundary

line instead of two pictures only; toward and away are drawn as a matched pair (same layout, a

smaller or larger gap and the arrow pointing at or away from the landmark)

Probe And Track

• 2 quick picture probe forms (A, B), 4 scenes each, untimed, each scene marked correct / error /

approximation for the preposition word — Form A is the four place-and-distance words (beside,

near, far, outside), Form B the four direction words (along, past, toward, away), and together

they are the whole 8-scene bank with no scene repeated on more than one form

• Full-Deck Probe — all 8 scenes on one sheet, one row each, 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, baseline, current, trend, prepositions still missed,

decision

Share And Write

• Practice at Home — a family update built from four of the same scenes used in session (beside,

far, toward, along), a weekly practice table, and lines for prepositions of place a family heard

outside of practice time

• Phrase Bank — 19 observable-language starters across 6 groups (accuracy, what was said,

carryover, the log and graph, the caseload page, and the toward/away/past confusion the card page

discloses)

• 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

preposition word, a criterion, or a typical rate for prepositions of place — every one of those is

this clinician's own call, written once and reused every session. Pictures replace the objects and

the distance or path a clinician would otherwise have to arrange or draw by hand; they do not

replace the clinician's scoring rule.

Who This Is For

Pictures: Noto Emoji by Google, Apache License 2.0 (color); Fluent Emoji by Microsoft, MIT License

(ink-saver black and white).