Vocabulario: la casa — Drag Drop
Language · Grades K–2 · 1 card · Spanish-language material
How to run it
Ask for the word in a phrase rather than alone, since four items is too few to build vocabulary and just long enough to practise a sentence frame. La mesa, la silla — both feminine, both taking la — which makes this small set incidentally useful for gender agreement as well. Use the full flashcard deck when vocabulary is the goal.
Cueing ladder
Start at the top. Add support one step at a time.
- IndependentPresent the item and wait 5 seconds of quiet before helping.Log as correct
- HintGive a clue about the word's category, what it does, or where you find it.Log as cued
- Two choicesOffer two answers, the right one not always second.Log as cued
- ModelGive the answer in a sentence; the student says it back and uses it once more.Log as cued
Adjust it
Use fewer items and start with the ones the student already knows, such as 'mesa' and 'ventana'.
Ask for the word in a sentence of the student's own, or a second example from the same group.
Matching IEP goal
Given vocabulary cards, Student will name, sort or define target words in 8 of 10 opportunities across 3 consecutive sessions, given no more than an indirect cue.
Send it home through the parent portal →About this activity
A four-word drag-and-drop round — mesa, ventana, cuchara, silla — drawn from the fourteen-word home vocabulary deck. Very short, which makes it a warm-up or a quick check rather than the main practice: four items named and placed takes a minute.
What to listen for
Watch the article. All four of these take la, which makes the set a poor test of gender agreement and a fine place to establish the feminine pattern. Notice whether the child produces the word in Spanish or reaches for English — which language arrives first tells you something about where the vocabulary is strongest.
Carrying it home
Four household objects is a set any family already has. Naming them in Spanish as they are used gives more repetitions than a board ever will — pásame la cuchara at dinner is worth more than a dozen turns on a screen.
What's in this activity
- mesa
- ventana
- cuchara
- silla
Questions
- How is this different from the flashcards?
- It uses four of the fourteen words and asks the child to place them. It is a very short check rather than a vocabulary session.
- Is it free?
- Yes, no account or card needed.
- Which should I use first?
- The flashcard deck, which has all fourteen words. This works as a warm-up or a quick closing check.
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.
Track progress freeFree for SLPs. No card, no trial clock.