Teaching Common Pets: Building Early Language with Flashcards

This English set contains animal vocabulary prompts for pets such as cats, dogs, rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, parrots, and goldfish. It includes separate kitten and puppy sections, questions with printed answers, descriptive word lists, and animal sound or movement activities.

Publisher identified in the materials: Special Learning.

Material context: The selection also includes chicken, chick, duck, and duckling, so buyers seeking only household-pet vocabulary should note the wider animal list.

Cat and kitten, dog and puppy, and fish and goldfish have separate vocabulary sections. Prompts ask readers to identify an animal, name it, complete short statements, or describe it using the supplied words.

The small-animal sections include words such as whiskers, fur, tails, and long ears. Pretend-play prompts include meowing like a cat, wiggling the nose like a guinea pig, and moving fingers as if swimming like a fish.

What is inside this resource?

• Cat/kitten and dog/puppy label sections
• Guinea pig, hamster, mouse and rabbit vocabulary
• Bird, parrot, fish and goldfish vocabulary
• Animal descriptions, body parts and first-letter prompts
• Meowing, nose-wiggling and pretend-swimming activities

Material details: 160-page PDF, including front matter. This is a digital download; purchase does not include printed copies.

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