April Year of Core Vocabulary Resources

Core vocabulary resources are the focus of today’s post. In 2013, when schools and other clinical programs were expanding their emphasis on teaching core vocabulary words, PrAACtical AAC published a set of resources for families and professionals that included symbol cards, sample sentences to model, activity suggestions, and more. All of these were based on a small set of core words for each month (see that post here). We followed that with a second set of Year of Core Vocabulary Word resources for a new list of words (click here for that post).

Over the years, the resources were expanded and grew to include a wonderful series of calendars with daily activity suggestions developed by AAC SLP and co-founder of Talking AAC, Rachael Langley. Many other contributors over the years added to these efforts. In 2020, a new series was launched, School Year of Core Vocabulary Words, authored by guest contributors Michaela Sullivan, Alisa Lego, and Beth Lytle. Michaela Sullivan and Lindsay Dougherty co-authored the Older Student Lessons posts in 2023-24.

We’re reprising those posts for anyone interested in following along and utilizing the resources developed by quite a few people in the AAC community. You can access the resources for April words by clicking on the images below.

Set 1 & Set 2 Words

School Year of Core Vocabulary

School Year of Core Vocabulary Words – Older Student Lessons