Core Vocabulary
Supporting Individual Access to the Universal Core Facilitated Materials
by Center for Literacy and Disability Studies, Department of Health Sciences, UNC-Chapel Hill
This module is part of a group and emphasizes the importance of individual core vocabulary systems and gives guidance for determining the format of the display. Facilitator guides and full documentation of the trainings make them perfect for professional development of instructional assistants or others working with these students.
Speech Without Limits YouTube Channel
by Jeanna Antrim
The Speech without Limits YouTube channel is a great source for ideas about how to use target core vocabulary across the day. Each video is short (about 2 minutes) and focuses on a single core word. You’ll see examples of activities and hear how you can word things differently to incorporate the use of the target word more often..
School Year of Core
by PRC Language Lab
The series has two levels of monthly vocabulary words along with a comprehensive set of ideas, resources, and materials.
School Year of Core Older Student Lessons
by PrAACtical AAC Blog
The series has two levels of monthly vocabulary words along with a comprehensive set of ideas, resources, and materials. These materials are specifically appropriate for older learners of all abilities.
AAC Made Easy. Vocabulary Lists
Fluent AAC
Suggestions for vocabulary to model on an AAC system for nearly 40 activities. Each activity includes ideas for words and phrases to communicate for different functions such as commenting, asking questions, directing others, etc.
Vocabulary Planners
These entries may overlap with the Device Trial Data content, as the planners are often used for data collection as well.
Vocabulary and Data Chart
Form for planning the trial contexts, selecting vocabulary, and setting up the data collection system.
SGD Planning and Data Documents
Collection of documents related to planning trial contexts and collecting data.
Building Language Where do I start?
by Speak for Yourself
A detailed graphic organizer to guide the collection of words associated with an activity to support modeling / aided language input. It includes prompt questions that are really helpful for identifying the most meaningful vocabulary across language functions.
Core Is All Around
by Lesson Pix
Lesson Pix is a website for making visuals for your students. In addition to the paid services they have many materials that are pre-made and available for download. The “Core Is All Around” graphic maps out how core vocabulary can be used across the day in an early childhood setting. Educators can see how they might create maps across different grades to plan for the use of core vocabulary all d
Core Vocabulary Activity First
by PRC / Saltillo
From Chat Corner resources page, select:
- “Activities to Teach Core”,
- “Choosing CORE Vocabulary Activity First Approach”
- pdf link
- A single pdf document includes separate pages for each activity entry. Each page is a graphic organizer of a target activity in the center, surrounded by different parts of speech such as: feeling words, questions, recurrence, negate/stop, nouns, describing words, people, and actions. Some activities also include an additional “communication script” handout.