Vocabulario: la escuela
Vocabulario académico básico del salón: lápiz, pizarrón, mochila, maestra, recreo.
Session summary (SOAP)
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Mark a card Correct, Correct with cue or Incorrect and the summary writes itself here.
How to run it
Ask for both languages where the student has them. A child who knows pencil and not lápiz has a Spanish vocabulary gap in a domain where they spend six hours a day, which is worth knowing and is easy to miss. Name the objects where they are, since every item on this list is within reach in a classroom. Eight minutes covers the fourteen.
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 'lápiz' and 'pizarrón'.
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
Fourteen Spanish words from the classroom: lápiz, pizarrón, mochila, maestra, recreo, cuaderno, libro, tijeras, goma, salón, pupitre, regla, biblioteca, tarea. For a bilingual student in an English-medium classroom, this is often the vocabulary that goes missing — the objects are all around them and named in the other language.
What to listen for
Watch for the pattern of what is missing. A bilingual student typically has home vocabulary in Spanish and school vocabulary in English, and this deck maps exactly onto the gap. Notice tarea and pupitre, which have no exact single-word English equivalent a child would use — homework and desk are close and not identical.
Carrying it home
Ask a child in Spanish what they did at school. The answer requires this vocabulary, and a family that asks in Spanish gets it practised daily without any materials.
What's in this activity
- lápiz
- pizarrón
- mochila
- maestra
- recreo
- cuaderno
- libro
- tijeras
- goma
- salón
- pupitre
- regla
- biblioteca
- tarea
Questions
- Is this board in Spanish?
- Yes, all fourteen words are Spanish. This page is in English so an English-speaking clinician can find and evaluate it.
- Is it free?
- Yes, all fourteen cards play with no account.
- Why does school vocabulary go missing in Spanish?
- Because school happens in English for many bilingual students. They spend six hours a day with these objects and hear them named only in one language, which leaves a real gap in the other.
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.