Informal Language Assessment for School-Baesd Speech-Language Pathologists
This language screener and assessment is a quick, efficient way to screen, assess, or progress monitor a variety of oral and written language skills for students in middle and high school. It is designed for SLPs, ESL teachers, special education teachers, reading and/or language interventionists, and ELA teachers providing interventions or support. It's low prep, with no print and lower ink options, and comprehensive!
This language screener and assessment is a quick, efficient way to screen, assess, or progress monitor a variety of oral and written language skills for students in middle and high school. It is designed for SLPs, ESL teachers, special education teachers, reading and/or language interventionists, and ELA teachers providing interventions or support. It's low prep, with no print and lower ink options, and comprehensive!
This language screener and assessment is a quick, efficient way to screen, assess, or progress monitor a variety of oral and written language skills for students in middle and high school. It is designed for SLPs, ESL teachers, special education teachers, reading and/or language interventionists, and ELA teachers providing interventions or support. It's low prep, with no print and lower ink options, and comprehensive!
What will you get?
In your zip file, you'll find:
Data Pages
Each area is presented on a data page that doubles as the stimulus page for the assessor to read. Mark student responses + or - and use the white space to make notes.
Photo PDFs
Photo prompts for a variety of skills are included as a separate PDF.
Student Stimulus Pages
Some of the sections are also provided as an optional student stimulus page so that they can read items themselves.
Boom Card Links
Most of the skill areas are also provided as Boom decks.
The skills assessed are:
✨ Phonemic Awareness
✨ Expressive and Receptive Labeling
✨ Expressive and Receptive Functions
✨ Expressive and Receptive Associations
✨ Expressive (divergent and convergent naming) and Receptive Categories
✨ Expressive and Receptive Antonyms
✨ Expressive and Receptive Synonyms
✨ Expressive and Receptive Multiple Meaning Words
✨ Expressive and ReceptiveAnalogies
✨ Expressive and Receptive Figurative Language
✨ Homonyms
✨ Expressive and Receptive WH Questions
✨ Expressive and Receptive Context Clues
✨ Expressive and Receptive Position Words
✨ Word Retrieval (cloze sentences)
✨ Expressive and Receptive Emotions/Emotional Vocabulary
✨ Roots, Prefixes, Suffixes
✨ Following Directions (1, 2, 3 Step, Temporal, Conditional, Multistep)
✨ 1-3 Sentence Comprehension
✨ Inferences (from descriptions and based on paragraphs)
✨ Auditory Memory
✨ Reading Comprehension (comprehension questions, sequencing events)
✨ Describing (objects and scenes)
✨ Problem Solving
✨ Why Questions (explaining reasons)
✨ How Questions (sequencing)
✨ Cause and Effect
✨ 14 Morphemes
✨ Parts of Speech
Expressive and Receptive Labeling, Receptive Double Meanings, Receptive WH Questions, Expressive and Receptive Position Words, Describing Objects, Describing Scenes, and 14 Morphemes include real photos and visuals for students to use as stimuli or answer choices.
All skills except Phonemic Awareness and Auditory Memory are included as Boom decks.
Who can use it?
✨ SLPs (It was designed especially for them!)
✨ Special education teachers writing language-based goals for IEPs
✨ ESL teachers who need to determine oral and academic language strengths and weaknesses
✨ Reading and/or language interventionists planning remediation
Who will it help?
✨ Students with language impairments
✨ Students with reading disorders
✨ Students with specific learning disabilities
✨ Students with ADD/ADHD
✨ Students with Autism
✨ Students learning English as a second language
✨ Students in approximately 5th-12th grade (and possibly a little younger!)
Why will you love it?
✨ Low prep! No cutting or prepping is required: just print, load onto a laptop/tablet, and use!
✨ All black and white ink except for photo stimulus (and those are designed to be no print!)
✨ Boom decks included!
✨ Comprehensive—assess nearly 40 areas of oral and written language
✨ No fluff—streamlined and efficient
How will it help you?
This screener is the perfect tool for a variety of needs:
Screening for initial language evaluations or need for remediation
Gaining additional information during formal evaluations
Writing IEP goals, strengths, and weaknesses
Planning ESL instruction or Tier 2/3 remediation lessons
Obtaining progress monitoring data
Take the stress out of IEP season and therapy/remedial session planning!
What should you look at before you buy?
Check out the images to get a good idea of what this product includes!