Language Development

Highlight the importance of teamwork, responsibility and kindness with these 36 wordless storytelling cards, designed to support 30+ games. An array of 12 character, 12 setting and 12 object cards help build literacy, sequencing and problem-solving skills. For children aged 3 to 10.

• 30 Games in One: Includes more than 30 games crafted by an education specialist to build literacy, sequencing and problem-solving skills in children ages 3 - 10.
• Learn About Communities: The 12 character cards each show a person with a different profession that helps keep the city healthy and safe, encouraging children to "try on" a range of jobs. The 12 object and 12 setting cards depict common urban fixtures, like parks, stores and city buses. Piecing together stories with the cards prompts children to think about how various people, institutions and vehicles can work together to make communities better.
• Writers' Workshop: The robust instruction booklet includes kid-tested directions for activities that help children understand basic story elements, as well as prompts for drawing and creative writing activities. The cards themselves are color-coded to indicate characters, objects and settings.
• Handy Deck Format: Like the popular Barefoot Books Build-a-Story Cards: Magical Castle, the Build-a-Story Cards: Community Helpers deck's 36 sturdy, versatile cards are designed to withstand travel, frequent solo or group play, and home or classroom use.

Spark imaginations with 36 colorful cards, featuring artwork by favorite Barefoot illustrator Miriam Latimer! Kids will delight in piecing together creative stories about dragons, castles, magic potions and more. Includes instructions for more than 30 games designed to teach children basic storytelling and writing skills, with a focus on social-emotional learning.

• Created by an Early Childhood Education Expert: Includes more than 30 games crafted by an education specialist to build social-emotional, literacy, sequencing and problem-solving skills in children ages 3 - 10.
• Social-Emotional Learning: The 8 red character cards each show a person or animal experiencing an emotion for children to identify. Piecing together stories with the cards prompts children to imagine why a character might feel a certain way or how characters might develop friendships and resolve conflicts, preparing them to understand their own emotions and handle social situations with confidence.
• Writers' Workshop: The robust instruction booklet includes directions for activities that help children understand basic story elements, as well as prompts for creative writing activities. The cards themselves are color-coded to indicate characters, objects and settings.
• Handy Deck Format: A smaller version of the format of Barefoot Books' best-selling Mindful Kids and Yoga Pretzels decks, the Magical Castle Build-A-Story Cards' 36 sturdy, versatile cards are designed to withstand travel, frequent solo or group play, and home or classroom use.

This deck of 36 wordless storytelling cards features more than 30 games to build basic mathematics, storytelling and writing skills in children ages 3 - 10. The 12 character, 12 object and 12 setting cards invite children to create stories about mermaids, pirates and more.

• 30 Games in One: This new addition to Barefoot Books' popular Build-a-Story Cards series features more than 30 games crafted by an education specialist to build basic mathematics, storytelling and writing skills in children ages 3 - 10.
• Early Mathematics Skills: The robust instruction booklet includes clear directions for using the cards to reinforce familiarity with basic mathematics concepts such as shapes, relative size and quantity, patterning, measurement, addition, subtraction, counting by 5s and 10s, and word problems.
• Writers' Workshop: Includes kid-tested directions for activities that help children understand basic story elements, as well as prompts for drawing and creative writing activities. Featuring delightful artwork by Bear series and Port Side Pirates! illustrator Debbie Harter, the cards themselves are color-coded to indicate characters, objects and settings.
• Handy Deck Format: Like the popular Barefoot Books Build-a-Story Cards: Magical Castle, the Build-a-Story Cards: Ocean Adventure deck's 36 sturdy, versatile cards are designed to withstand travel, frequent solo or group play, and home or classroom use.

Long awaited new product in the Language Builder Series! Available now!

Language Builder 3D - 2D Matching Kits provide the manipulative and photo materials for the most common introductory ABA and Autism Education lesson - matching. The Animal Matching Kit contains 16 animals and 16 photo cards:

• 2 each of 8 different realistic plastic animals: Horse, Cow, Pig, Dog, Cat, Bird, Giraffe and Lion
• duplicate cards to correspond with each animal.

The Birds and Cats were chosen specifically to compliment the similar matching animal pictures in the Basic Stages section of the Language Builder Picture Noun Cards, so you can move seamlessly to similar matching, sorting and categorization lessons.

Early language acquisition begins with the ability to understand objects as distinct and separate. Before learning that pictures represent real items (picture-object correspondence), children learn to match actual physical objects. This is a regular part of developmentally healthy play.

Next, when children master the skill of matching a 3D object to a 2D image, they understand that a 2D image can represent an actual object. Now you can use pictures to teach a variety of new language and functional skills!

Language Builder 3D-2D matching kits provide the tools so you can help children meet these critical language development milestones.

Long awaited new product in the Language Builder Series! Pre-order now!

Language Builder 3D - 2D Matching Kits provide the manipulative and photo materials for the most common introductory ABA and Autism Education lesson - matching. The Everyday Object Matching Kit is the most critical object matching kit, as it contains nesting items such as cups, bowls, and spoons... the items used for the very first ABA introductory matching activity.

The full kit contains 16 Everyday Objects and 16 photo cards:

• 2 each of 8 different realistic everyday objects: Cup, Bowl, Spoon, Shoes, Ball, Flower, Bed & Chair
• duplicate cards to correspond with each item.

Each of these items were chosen specifically to compliment the similar matching pictures in the Basic Stages section of the Language Builder Picture Noun Cards, so you can move seamlessly to similar matching, sorting and categorization lessons.

Early language acquisition begins with the ability to understand objects as distinct and separate. Before learning that pictures represent real items (picture-object correspondence), children learn to match actual physical objects. This is a regular part of developmentally healthy play.

Next, when children master the skill of matching a 3D object to a 2D image, they understand that a 2D image can represent an actual object. Now you can use pictures to teach a variety of new language and functional skills!

Language Builder 3D-2D matching kits provide the tools so you can help children meet these critical language development milestones.

Long awaited new product in the Language Builder Series!

Language Builder 3D - 2D Matching Kits provide the manipulative and photo materials for the most common introductory ABA and Autism Education lesson - matching. The Food Matching Kit contains 16 foods and 16 photo cards:

• 2 each of 8 different realistic plastic foods: Apples, Cookies, Bananas, Broccoli, Carrots, Corn, Orange and Bread
• duplicate cards to correspond with each food.

The apples and cookies were chosen specifically to compliment the similar matching foods pictures in the Basic Stages section of the Language Builder Picture Noun Cards, so you can move seamlessly to similar matching, sorting and categorization lessons.

Early language acquisition begins with the ability to understand objects as distinct and separate. Before learning that pictures represent real items (picture-object correspondence), children learn to match actual physical objects. This is a regular part of developmentally healthy play.

Next, when children master the skill of matching a 3D object to a 2D image, they understand that a 2D image can represent an actual object. Now you can use pictures to teach a variety of new language and functional skills!

Language Builder 3D-2D matching kits provide the tools so you can help children meet these critical language development milestones.

The Language Builder Autism Curriculum Cards are the most widely used photo language tools for teaching key language concepts to preschool age children; children and adults with autism, developmental delay, or speech/language delay; or to anyone first learning or re-learning basic language skills. The full kit includes 1413 Real Photo Flash Cards and 88 Realistic 3D Items from the following Language Builder products:

• Picture Noun Cards set 1
• Picture Noun Cards set 2
• Occupation Cards set
• Emotion Card set
• Sequencing Cards set
• Card Block set
• Card Verb set
• 3D-2D Foods Matching Kit
• 3D-2D Animals Matching Kit
• The 3D-2D Everyday Objects Matching Kit

All card sets in the language builder series offer the following features:
The back of each card is numbered and gives a label and category for the image, as well as suggested activities appropriate to the card. An included activity booklet provides more detailed instruction ideas. The cards are coated with a hi-gloss varnish for durability All images appear horizontally for consistent presentation. Each set comes in a sturdy “work-from” box for years of use. Each card is a standard photo 3 ½" x 5" size to allow easy incorporation of your own pictures.

The most requested Language Builder product ever is finally here and ready to ship!

Stages Language Builder Verbs & Action Words flash card set offers 230 Verb Cards to help kids recognize and name a large selection of action words.

Images in the Language Builder Verbs & Action Words card set show people from various ages, genders and ethnicities engaging in a range of common activities. This variation in actors allows for practice learning gender, pronouns and full sentences.

Many of the verb cards also offer more than one example, so you can increase generalization of the learned words. For example, the word "blowing" shows someone blowing a whistle, blowing bubbles, blowing out a candle and blowing their nose.

As with all tools in the Language Builder series, the Verb & Action Words images are current and familiar, and are featured in natural settings. Each picture includes plenty of context clues to make identification easy and fun, and to provide great topics for discussion.

For the convenience of the instructor, the back of each card is numbered and provides a label for the featured image, and lists suggested activities for which the card is targeted. An included activity booklet provides more detailed instruction ideas.

Each hi-gloss card is 3 ½" x 5" with horizontal presentation so the sets work together seamlessly with the other 1000+ images in the Language Builder Series.