Feelings Communication Board — Spelling
AAC · Grades K–5 · 14 cards
Session summary (SOAP)
Stays on this screen. Nothing is saved or sent.
Mark a card Correct, Correct with cue or Incorrect and the summary writes itself here.
How to run it
Practise the long ones. Frustrated, surprised and nervous are the words most worth having stored or predicted, because a student who has to spell out eleven letters while upset will give up before finishing. For a keyboard user with word prediction, accuracy on the first three letters is what matters, so fru and ner deserve more attention than the full word does.
Cueing ladder
Start at the top. Add support one step at a time.
- IndependentSet up the moment, then wait with an expectant look for 10 seconds.Log as correct
- GesturePoint toward the device or the right area of the page.Log as cued
- ModelTouch the symbols on the device yourself while you say the message.Log as cued
- Partial physicalOnly if the team agrees and the student accepts touch: a light touch at the elbow toward the page. Never press the symbol for them.Log as cued
Adjust it
Fewer symbols on the page, and model the message several times before you expect it.
Wait longer before prompting, or expect one more symbol in the message.
Matching IEP goal
During structured activities, Student will use their AAC system to name how they feel in 8 of 10 opportunities across 3 consecutive sessions, given no more than a gestural prompt.
Send it home through the parent portal →About this activity
The fourteen emotion words — happy, sad, mad, scared, tired, excited, hurt, surprised, frustrated, proud, sick, bored, nervous, calm — as a spelling task. Derived from the flashcard deck, and aimed at literate or emerging-literate AAC users who type rather than select symbols, for whom the longer emotion words are exactly the ones that take too long to produce in the moment.
What to listen for
Watch frustrated, which is the longest and the most irregular here. Notice whether the student abandons a word partway — that is exactly what will happen in a real moment, and it is an argument for storing the word rather than spelling it. Check whether prediction is being used, since it changes which part of the word matters.
Carrying it home
Ask for one feeling word spelled aloud when it comes up naturally. Spelling proud after something went well attaches the letters to a real moment rather than a list.
What's in this activity
- happy
- sad
- mad
- scared
- tired
- excited
- hurt
- surprised
- frustrated
- proud
- sick
- bored
- nervous
- calm
Questions
- How does this differ from the flashcards?
- Same fourteen words, built from letters. It suits AAC users who spell to communicate rather than selecting symbols.
- Do I need an account?
- No, it plays free with no login.
- Should long emotion words be stored rather than spelled?
- Usually yes. A student who is frustrated is not going to spell out eleven letters, and a stored word that arrives immediately is worth more than one that arrives correctly a minute later.
Use this board with your caseload
With a free account, every correct, cued and incorrect mark is saved to the student and scored against their IEP goal, with the data written up for you. Assign it as home practice through the parent portal.
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