Basic Concepts Assessment | Baseline & Progress Monitoring

Kitty Cat's Book of Basic Concepts is designed to informally assess students' receptive understanding of 34 basic concepts for baseline and progress monitoring. Unlike intervention materials that teach one concept at a time, this resource is designed to help you quickly identify students' understanding of individual basic concepts and monitor growth over time.

The concepts are organized into five categories:

• Descriptive

• Spatial

• Quantitative

• Comparative & Superlative

• Sequential

Two equivalent versions of the assessment (Book A and Book B) are included and may be used interchangeably for baseline testing and progress monitoring.

Each concept page includes five receptive prompts. The first prompt also includes an optional expressive extension that targets the opposite concept (e.g., receptive: on; expressive: off), providing an opportunity to gather additional expressive language information during the assessment.

The included data collection sheet makes it easy to document baseline performance and monitor student progress over time.

This resource can also be used as a small-group knowledge check (up to five students) to quickly identify concepts that may benefit from additional instruction or practice.

Concepts Included:

Descriptive

• big

• little

• open

• closed

• wet

• dry

• full

• empty

• same

• different

Spatial

• in

• out

• on

• off

• under

• over

• behind

• in front

• between

Quantitative

• one

• more

• less

• most

• least

• all

• none

• both

• each

Comparative & Superlative

• -er

• -est

Sequential

• first

• last

• before

• after

Great For

• Informal assessment

• Baseline assessment

• Progress monitoring

• Receptive language assessment

• IEP data collection

• Speech-language therapy

• RTI/MTSS

• Small-group language instruction

• Preschool through early elementary students

Assembly

Simply print the pages, insert them into plastic sleeves (optional), and place them in a three-ring binder or attach them with a ring clip for a durable assessment tool you can use year after year.

THIS UPDATE NOW INCLUDES Complex Clusters (initial/medial), differentiated vocalic /r/ (final) and CV patterns.

What’s included:

➜ Hierarchy & Cueing Level Definitions

➜ Table of Contents with links to pages

➜ Data Pages:

• 1 blank page (fill in your own target words)

• 26 pre-filled pages include 10 words per position for each target phoneme*

➜ 26 Stimulus Picture Pages:

• Each page includes 30 b/w images per target phoneme (10 per word position*)

Phoneme Targets: p, b, m, t, d, n, f, v, k, g, s, z, s blends, l, l blends, r, r blends, th, sh, ch, j PLUS Complex Clusters, differentiated vocalic /r/ and CV patterns.

*complex clusters = initial/medial word position only

differentiated vocalic /r/ = final word position only

cv patterns = vc, cv, cvc and varied cvcv patterns