A teacher shows how to use fall-themed picture matching tasks to assess reading and listening comprehension for students with limited verbal abilities. Students can match pictures to sentences, choose from three options, or find the picture that matches a spoken description. The format flips easily depending on whether you're targeting reading or listening skills.
This is one of my favorite tasks in the new Fall Work Task Mega Pack. This to me is just such a great task because for students with limited verbal skills, it can be really hard to assess reading comprehension. I want to show a few ways to use this. So you can use this as an independent work task and have students just match everything, but you could also use this as like a guided practice task and give, you know, maybe 3 options for a card. So show this to the student and then say, which one is he doing? And then you can work on reading comprehension by having the student find the right one, or work on listening comprehension by giving 3 options and then reading them. So say, okay, here's the picture. Is this a family? Blah blah blah. Did he rake the leaves into a huge pile, or did the farmer sell vegetables? And then the student would find the right one. You could also do the reverse. You could give one picture and— or one sentence here and say, "I baked the squash with salt and pepper. Which one is it?" And have them find it. Would be a nice way to work on listening comprehension, or it could be reading comprehension. Here, "I baked the squash." Have them read it and then have them match.
