Real Photo Language Cards: Define and Describe

Do your students struggle defining words? Do they tend to try to use it in a sentence when you ask for a definition? If this sounds familiar, these cards will help. These cards were created to provide picture stimuli and prompts to help students learn how to define and describe functional vocabulary. I start with using nouns that are easily recognizable, this will give your students confidence and success that you can later build on with other types of vocabulary (more advanced or actions). Each card comes with visuals and prompts to help your student form a basic definition of the word. I always prompt my students to start with the main category and then 3 defining features or attributes (A dog in an animal that barks, plays fetch, and lives in your house). I work with my students not to give vague attributes or features (example: if it is animal, I do not accept “It has eyes.” I explain to my students that all animals have eyes and we need to think of something unique about the anima