Vocabulary Growth and Semantic Knowledge Progress Monitoring Editable

About this resource

Vocabulary growth is the SLP or reading-interventionist question the store's existing sheets don't answer: not how accurately a student reads or produces a sound, but how many words they know, how fast new ones are sticking, and whether their word knowledge is broad-but-shallow or narrow-but-flexible. This fillable PDF is a full year of informal, team-set tracking for exactly that — never a standardized or norm-referenced vocabulary score.

WHAT IS INCLUDED — 25 pages, 795 type-in fields

Set Up The Caseload

• Code Key and How Bands Are Estimated — the spot-check method behind the three word-count bands (explicitly not a test, no percentile, no age-equivalent), 4 progress-status codes, 4 vocabulary-intervention strategy codes, and a field for what "known" means for this student
• Vocabulary Caseload Roster — 13 rows: student, band tracked, setting(s), primary strategy, status, next review
• Binder Cover and Spine Labels — a cover insert, 3 spine labels, 10 month filing labels, 8 index tabs and 4 print tips

Seven Ways To Watch Vocabulary Grow

• Vocabulary-Size Milestone Checklist — 3 word-count bands x 3 spot-checks each (9 rows): sample size, words known, percent, team's call, date
• New-Word Learning Log — 14 rows: new word, where first heard, understood when heard, used independently
• Semantic-Category Progress Sheet — 5 everyday categories (colors, animals, food, community helpers, body parts) x 3 seasonal checks (15 rows): target examples, examples known, percent of target
• Word-Association Observation Page — 12 rows for a target word and the related words the student gives on their own
• Multiple-Meaning Word Check — 12 common multiple-meaning words, each checked for a first AND a second meaning
• Breadth vs. Depth Rating Page — two 4-level team-defined scales plus an 8-entry dated rating log
• Vocabulary-Intervention Strategy Log — 15 rows: date, strategy code, word(s) targeted, whether it worked

Track, Report And Share

• Cumulative New-Word Tracker — two 10-month blocks (this year and next), new words per month and a running total
• Monthly Vocabulary-Growth Graph — a hand-plotted cumulative line, 0 to 100 by 10, ten months across
• Family Word-Learning Suggestions — a ready-to-send monthly note with 4 easy-at-home ideas and a week-by-week noticing chart
• Classroom Vocabulary Carryover Check-In — a second audience: the general education teacher, one week at a time
• Quarterly Semantic-Profile Summary — 6 rows (one per tool in this file): where the team started, where it is now, one sentence for the report
• Vocabulary Progress Phrase Bank — 14 observable-language starters across 5 groups, every one ending in a blank pulled from a page in this file
• A filled example for an invented first grader: a milestone checklist, a new-word week, a category summary, an association and multiple-meaning check, a breadth/depth read and a tracker total, every number checked against its own table

What This Is, And What It Is Not

It is a fillable PDF. Open it in a PDF reader, click a line, a box or a cell, type, press Tab to move on, and Save As once per student. It works offline with no account or subscription. It is NOT a Google Sheets file, a Google Doc or an Excel workbook, and it does not calculate a percent or draw the graph.

It is NOT a standardized or norm-referenced vocabulary test. The 100 / 200 / 500-word bands are round numbers a team sets and re-checks with its own spot-check sample; there is no percentile, no age-equivalent, and no score that goes in an eligibility file anywhere in this document. It is not a therapy program or a fixed word list — every category target, every "known" definition and every rating scale is written in by the team, from its own judgment.

Who This Is For

School SLPs and reading interventionists tracking vocabulary growth across a caseload, general education teachers handed the classroom carryover page, and families sent the monthly word-learning note.