I work with following directions and understanding concepts with many of my preschool and kindergarten populations. Prepositions are great to target for both receptive and expressive goals as they are consistently used throughout the day.
This prepositions checklist with both receptive and expressive applications is super handy to whip out. Use the receptive list to see how many prepositions your student can understand, and then use the expressive checklist to see if they can name and identify prepositions. I have broken the checklist down into the 3 main types of prepositions; location, time and direction for a better understanding.
Circle the prepositions that the child understands/uses
The Common Core Standards refer to the use of prepositions: L.K.1e Use the most frequently occurring prepositions (e.g., to, from, in, out, on, off, for, of, by, with) and L.1.1i. If you want to find a place of all my FREE resources, follow my Pinterest page for the latest updates.
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Love this! Thanks!! 🙂
LOVE LOVE LOVE this! A GREAT way to explain to parents what we mean by temporal, location, and directional prepositions! Awesome!
Fantastic! I really like how broke it down into categories – with visuals!! Great resource. Thanks!
Do you have any ideas about how to target the “time” prepositions? Location and direction I use a lot of barrier games and describing pictures but I am having a hard time targeting time prepositions. I pretty much have them fill in the blank on worksheets which doesn’t help with carrover. Any ideas would be great!
Hi Marissa,
For some of the time concepts that are also conjunctions (eg. until, before, after) I play my conjunction game that was one of the first posts that I did: http://adventuresinspeechpathology.wordpress.com/2012/04/24/crazy-conjunctions/ I also do a lot of before/after sequences, charades, or giving directions as they are commonly used in the classroom.