Product Review and Give-Away: Basic Vocabulary Screener and Progress Tracker from Speaking Freely SLP

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I am teaming up with Speaking Freely SLP to do a product review and give-away of her fabulous product!  I was excited to use the "Basic Vocab Screener and Progress Tracker" for pre-kindergarten and kindergarten children.  I chose this product because evaluating progress in expressive vocabulary can be a daunting task without using a standardized test.  This tool is great to use as a vocabulary screener or a progress monitoring tool for vocabulary.  It includes pictures of 120 commonly-used and high frequency vocabulary words in the following categories:

        Household Items,  Food,  Colors,  Emotions,  Outdoors,  Clothes,  Shapes,  Body Parts,                                                         School,  Transportation,  Animals and Verbs.

You can use it as a print copy or save a tree and use it on your Ipad (IOS 7 or better).  The pictures are clear, colorful and engaging and most are actual photographs.  Here's how I used it:

First, I printed off the HELPFUL data collection sheet (page 1 is pictured below):

Data Collection Sheet

Then, after downloading the product, I showed my students the pictures on my mac book pro and took a baseline (plus if the student named the picture, minus if he/she did not or was incorrect) of their performance on the data sheet. Before writing my next progress reports, I plan to re-administer it to these students and I will have objective data to report regarding the vocabulary acquisition progress of my students!  My students liked it because it was on my computer and they enjoyed the colorful images.  I've included a sample image below to give you an idea of the quality of the images.   Check out the picture of the tiger below! Crisp!

Full size and small images are available as are color and black and white!  You could use the smaller images as stimuli for vocabulary games and activities too.

Sample image from Basic Vocab Screener & Progress Tracker

SLO Writing?
Are you struggling with writing an SLO (student learning objective)?  Why not write your SLO on improving vocabulary and use this product and the data collection sheets as your progress monitoring tool? Stress-free SLO writing and progress monitoring!!

Comment to Win!
This product is reasonably-priced at $5.00 for 185 pages!! However, if you comment on my facebook page (link below) along with your email address so I can email you if you win,  I will include you in a drawing to win it!   I will announce the winner on Saturday, April 25th, 2015 on my
Badger State Speechy Face book Page so be sure to like my page so you will see the update and find out if you have won!!

               Here's a link to Speaking Freely SLP's product and store on Teachers Pay Teachers:
                                              Basic Vocab Screener and Progress Tracker

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                   Thanks for stopping by to check out this review.  I appreciate your interest!
                                                                       Donna