Teaching Object Labels: Building Early Language with Flashcards

Object Labels is an English flashcard resource with object names and prompts for matching, identifying, labeling and sorting. An accompanying instructional booklet covers matching, receptive identification, verbal imitation and expressive labeling, with examples that extend to object features, functions and categories.

Publisher identified in the materials: Special Learning.

Instructional booklet original credits: SBSA Clinical Team and Michele LaMarche, as printed in the 2013 booklet. The card text carries a 2015 Special Learning notice.

Material context: Lesson 2 focuses on identifying items; the booklet explicitly limits that lesson to receptive identification within the broader topic of receptive language.

Object Labels contains English card text across 18 categories: accessories, animals, appliances, body parts, clothing, electronics, food, furniture, household items, jewelry, musical instruments, nature, school supplies, sports equipment, tools, toys, vehicles and weather. Examples include washing machine, guitar, bicycle and cloud.

The accompanying instructional booklet, copyrighted 2013, contains lessons on identical and non-identical matching, receptive identification, verbal imitation and expressive labeling. Its receptive identification section also covers object features, functions and categories, with examples involving a pig and a fork.

The card text includes brief prompts for matching, selecting a named item, naming it, sorting and selecting a category. The booklet also discusses getting started, mixing tasks and reinforcement.

What is inside this resource?

• Everyday object categories, including animals, food, clothing, household items and vehicles
• Matching lesson covering identical and non-identical examples
• Receptive identification by object name, feature, function and category
• Verbal imitation examples using object names
• Expressive labeling examples with spoken or signed responses

Material details: 19 PDF files, containing 460 pages in total including front matter. This is a digital download; purchase does not include printed copies.

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