Build Fall-based vocabulary while supporting early literacy, communication, and classroom participation!

These Fall Theme Vocabulary Cards help students connect pictures, printed words, spoken language, and meaning through explicit vocabulary instruction. Each card includes a large, easy-to-read word, a clear photograph or symbol, and a simple, student-friendly definition designed for beginning readers, AAC users, and students with language delays.

Use the cards during fall units, literacy centers, speech therapy, morning meeting, small-group instruction, play-based learning, or community-themed lessons. Students can identify Fall related vocabulary, sort, describe, answer questions, and create simple sentences.

What’s Included

This resource contains 17 Fall-themed vocabulary cards featuring:

Core and concept words:

• put
• on
• some
• all
  

Fall related vocabulary:

• Fall
• apple
• web,
• leaves
• jacket
• pumpkin
• costume
• football
• hayride
• acorn
  

Each vocabulary card includes:

✔ Large printed word

✔ Student-friendly definition

✔ Real-life photograph or communication symbol

✔ Clean, easy-to-read format

✔ Four cards per page for convenient printing and cutting

Bonus Teacher Resources

This resource also includes practical teaching supports to help students learn, understand, and use new vocabulary.

You’ll receive:

• How to Use Themed Vocabulary Cards to Build Word Knowledge
• Start-Up Steps for Teachers
• Ideas for sorting, matching, movement, play, and sentence-building activities
• Guidance for supporting students who communicate with AAC
• ELA Standards Alignment
• Suggestions for multimodal participation using speech, AAC, gestures, eye gaze, pointing, or partner-assisted scanning
  

Skills Supported

• Vocabulary and word knowledge
• Oral language development
• Print awareness
• Beginning reading skills
• Speaking and listening
• Categorization and describing
• Reading comprehension
• Simple sentence development
• AAC modeling and expressive communication
  

Perfect For

• PreK and kindergarten classrooms
• Early elementary special education
• Speech-language therapy
• AAC and communication-focused classrooms
• Autism support classrooms
• Seasonal units
• Literacy centers and small groups
• Homeschool and inclusive learning settings
  

Help students learn Fall words through repeated, meaningful practice while making vocabulary instruction accessible to learners with a wide range of communication needs.

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