Push and Pull Sort Picture Cards

About this resource

A cut-and-sort of the two force and direction words a K-2 or early language program drills: push and pull. Every scene is a small creature (an ant, a beetle, a worm or a cricket) beside an object, with an arrow drawn right on the scene showing the direction — away from the creature for push, back toward it for pull — so a student who cannot yet read the words "push" and "pull" can still see the difference.

WHAT IS INCLUDED — 22 pages, 301 type-in fields

Picture Cards

• 12 scene cards in full color, each a cut-apart card of about 1.8 inches with Push or Pull printed underneath in large type: 6 push scenes and 6 pull scenes, every one of the 12 mover/object pairings used once (no pairing repeats). They sit edge to edge on one page, so 5 straight cuts free the whole deck.
• The same 12 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 student may name another way (cricket, "the insect, not the sport"; ring buoy, "life ring"; oil drum, "barrel"; flag, "golf flag"; barber pole, "pole"), and a second note disclosing that 2 of the 6 objects (a bridge, a mountain) are not things a person would really push or pull in real life — the arrow decides the answer on this deck, not real-world physics, named plainly on the card page itself

Sort Mats And Answer Key

• Sort Mat — a push bin and a pull bin, each with a faint picture guide for an errorless first try, plus a simple draw-one-more extension box in each bin
• Write Mat — the same two bins, with a blank line under each card position to write push or pull, plus a short "pick one card, write a sentence" section
• Answer Key — all 12 scenes, grouped by the bin they go in, with the 2 not-really-pushable/pullable objects flagged again for the adult

Probe And Track

• 3 quick picture probe forms (A, B, C), 4 scenes each, untimed, every form two push and two pull scenes across all four movers — forms A, B and C together are the whole 12-scene bank with no scene repeated on more than one form
• Full-Deck Probe — all 12 scenes on one sheet, one row each, with a column for where the student actually put the card if different from the right bin
• 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, direction still missed, decision

Share And Write

• Push and Pull at Home — a family update built from four of the same scenes used in session (two push, two pull), a weekly practice table, and lines for push and pull a family noticed outside of practice time
• Phrase Bank — 19 observable-language starters across 6 groups (accuracy, which direction, carryover, the log and graph, the caseload page, and a note about the pictures)
• 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 push or pull answer, a criterion, or a typical rate for push and pull — every one of those is this adult's own call, written once and reused every session. Pictures replace the objects a clinician or teacher would otherwise have to arrange or draw by hand; they do not replace the scoring rule.

Who This Is For

Speech-language pathologists, early childhood and K-2 special education teachers with young or pre-reading students on a concept-word, receptive, or expressive language goal, and the families who get the practice page sent home. Pairs naturally with Prepositions of Motion Picture Cards (the same mover-and-landmark scene mechanic) and Noun Sort Picture Cards (the same cut-and-sort format) for a caseload working on more than one concept.

Pictures: Noto Emoji by Google, Apache License 2.0 (color); Fluent Emoji by Microsoft, MIT License (ink-saver black and white).