Categories for Speech Therapist - Oral Language activities

Are you working on basic vocabulary, categorizing and describing skills with your students? With this resource, you will be able to target these goals and many others. You can use it for independent and partner work in the classroom or in the speech room.

Categories is such an important area to target with your early language learners and having this resource will help them quickly generalize new vocabulary and the category they belong to. 

Your students will love using the cards to sort the images! 

What's included?

-52 different categories (cards) with 4 images per category to make it easily managed.

-For each category:

• Sorting cards ( image only /image +text) to work on association in color.
• Same Sorting cards ( image only /image +text) to work on association in black and white.
• Individual images in Color and B&W
• Sorting cards with text only
• Sorting cards templates 

-3 covers for the cards

Some ideas for using this resource:

• Categorization
• Finding "what doesn't belong" .
• Sorting 
• Association: image/ image or image/ word or word/ word
• Divergent and convergent naming
• Similarities and differences/comparing and contrasting
• What goes together and why?
• Make your own sorting categories

Storage tips:

• Laminate the colored version 
• Cut the cards and the individual images
• Use adhesive dots to keep the images on the cards
• Keep the cards in a task box.