Zoo, Ocean and Sky Animal Picture Cards

About this resource

Twenty animals a child meets at a zoo, in the sea or in the sky, one big card each with the animal's name: giraffe, rhino, hippo, gorilla, tiger, whale, dolphin, shark, crab, eagle, swan and nine more. Every card is cut-apart ready in full color and again in ink-saver black and white. The file also has six student pages a child can work on with a pencil and glue (circle the animal, and three sort mats: zoo, ocean or sky), five probe forms that mark each animal's name and its group separately, and a log, graph and caseload page. The file never decides what counts as a correct name or group; that stays your own scoring rule.

WHAT IS INCLUDED -- 26 pages, 513 type-in fields

The Animal Cards

• 20 animal cards in full color: 10 zoo animals (giraffe, rhino, hippo, gorilla, tiger, camel, panda, koala, llama, sloth), 7 ocean animals (whale, dolphin, shark, crab, lobster, shrimp, squid) and 3 birds for the sky (eagle, peacock, swan). Each card is a big cut-apart piece laid edge to edge in a 5-across, 4-down grid, so cutting is a few straight lines
• The same 20 cards again as an ink-saver set in black outlines and solid shapes, for the photocopier
• The zoo, ocean and sky animals are mixed on the page on purpose, so the page itself gives nothing away. A note under the cards names the 13 pictures a child may name another way (gorilla, tiger, panda, koala, llama, sloth, whale, dolphin, squid, shrimp, eagle, peacock, swan) so you can decide once how to mark them, and says that Sky means the three birds

Student Pages

• 3 "Circle the Animal" pages with a My name line, one short instruction and big pictures to circle: two choices (4 questions), three choices (4 questions), and three choices plus two primary writing lines for writing an animal's name (4 questions)
• Sort Mat 1, Zoo or Ocean: three faint pictures in each box to match, a strip of six touching cut pieces to glue on them, and a box to draw one more animal for each group
• Sort Mat 2, Zoo, Ocean or Sky: three home boxes, and a grid of ten touching cut pieces (5 across, 2 down) to glue where each animal lives
• Sort Mat 3, Write the Animals: three home boxes with primary handwriting lines to write the animals for each, plus a draw-and-write box
• The answers are on the full-deck probe page

Probe And Track

• 4 quick probe forms (A, B, C, D), 5 animals each, no animal on two forms -- together the whole 20-animal deck. Each animal is marked for the name and for the group (zoo, ocean or sky)
• Full-Deck Probe -- all 20 animals in card order with the group printed beside each (the answer key), a mark for the name, a mark for the group, and a column for what the child said, word for word
• 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, names or groups, baseline, current, trend, decision

Share And Write

• Practice at Home -- a family update built from six of the same pictures used in session, a weekly practice table, and lines to write down the animals a child named at home, in the family's own words
• Phrase Bank -- 20 observable-language starters across 5 groups (accuracy, what was said, carryover, the log and graph, 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 is a picture-card and data set for naming animals and sorting them by where they live; it has no story, no animal sounds and no hook-and-loop pieces.

It carries no elicitation, cueing or modeling script. It does not decide what counts as a correct name or group, a criterion, or a typical rate for either -- every one of those is your own call, written once and reused every session. Pictures replace the printed word list a child cannot yet read; they do not replace your scoring rule.

Who This Is For

Speech-language pathologists, special education teachers and paraprofessionals with young or pre-reading students who are working on animal words and simple groups, 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).