ALLEGHENY INTERMEDIATE UNIT
Core Word Comparison for Language
Building with AAC
Dori Anderson and Kendra Bittner
2/27/2013
The following compilation compares five core word vocabulary lists: Natural Language Board 300+ Words Color Word Board by Van Tatenhove, G., 2007;
Toddler’s Vocabulary Arranged by Frequency by Marvin, C., Banajee, M., Dicarlo, C., & Stricklin, S.B., 2003; Preschooler’s Vocabulary Arranged Alphabetically by
Beukleman, D.R. & Bilyeu, D., 1994; Core Vocabulary List for Students with Intellectual Disabilities by Van Tatenhove, G., 2011; Clinical Application of BanaJee &
Van Tatenhove Lists Compared to the Dolch List by Bittner, K., 2012.
Color Core Word Board
Toddler’s Vocabulary
Preschooler’s
Vocabulary
Core Vocabulary for
Students with
Intellectual Disabilities
Core Vocabulary &
Dolch Core
X
X
PRONOUNS
Who
Self
He
I
X
It
X
Me
She
They
We
You
X
Everybody
Everything
X
He’s
X
I’ll
I’m
X
It’s
X
X
She’s
Somebody
Someone
Something
X
They’ll
They’re
X
We’ll
We’re
X
You’ll
You’re
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Hers
X
X
Possessive
Her
X
Him
X
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Color Core Word Board
Toddler’s Vocabulary
Mine
My
X
X
Us
Your
Preschooler’s
Vocabulary
Core Vocabulary for
Students with
Intellectual Disabilities
X
X
X
X
Our
Ours
Their
X
X
Yours
His
X
X
Myself
X
Core Vocabulary &
Dolch Core
X
X
X
People
Aide
Baby
Boy
Brother
Bus Driver
Child
Family
Father
Friend
Girl
Grandma
Grandpa
Man
Mother
X
X
X
Girls
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Children’s
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Mom
Mommy
Names of People
OT
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Color Core Word Board
Toddler’s Vocabulary
PT
People
Person
Preschooler’s
Vocabulary
Core Vocabulary for
Students with
Intellectual Disabilities
X
X
X
Sister
Speech Language Pathologist
Teacher
Woman
Core Vocabulary &
Dolch Core
Person’s
Pet Name
X
X
X
X
Determiners
A
All
Any
Each
Every
None
Some
That
The
These
This
Those
Nouns
X
X
X
X
X
X
An
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Animal
Ant
Airplane
Appliance
Art
Bathroom
Ball
X
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Color Core Word Board
Bed
Toddler’s Vocabulary
Preschooler’s
Vocabulary
Core Vocabulary for
Students with
Intellectual Disabilities
Core Vocabulary &
Dolch Core
Bean
X
Bird
Birds
Body
Book
X
Box
Breakfast
Bus
Bugs
Camp
Car
Cat
Cent
Chair
Circle
Class
Computer
Candy
X
X
X
X
Cookie
Corn
Cup
Desk
Dinner
Dog
Dollar
Doctor
X
Door
Duck
Ear
Eye
Face
X
Finger
4
Color Core Word Board
Toddler’s Vocabulary
Preschooler’s
Vocabulary
Core Vocabulary for
Students with
Intellectual Disabilities
Core Vocabulary &
Dolch Core
Fire
Five
Food
Foot
Fun
Game
Glasses
Group
Hair
Hand
Home
House
Ice
Idea
Insect
Jacket
Job
Journal
X
Guys
X
X
Hands
Hill
X
Horse
X
X
X
Juice
Kitchen
Lesson
Light
Lot
Lunch
Mail
Mail time
Medicine
Money
X
X
5
Color Core Word Board
Toddler’s Vocabulary
Preschooler’s
Vocabulary
Core Vocabulary for
Students with
Intellectual Disabilities
X
Name
Core Vocabulary &
Dolch Core
Mouth
Music
Napkin
Nature
Neck
Number
Paper
Part
Party
Pet
Piece
Picture
Place
Problem
Question
Radio
Recess
Road
Room
School
Shape
Side
Snack
Story
Stuff
Supper
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Tape
Test
Therapy
Thing
X
X
6
Color Core Word Board
Toddler’s Vocabulary
Preschooler’s
Vocabulary
Things
X
Time
Toy
Core Vocabulary for
Students with
Intellectual Disabilities
Core Vocabulary &
Dolch Core
X
Toys
Town
X
Trees
Trouble
X
Turtles
TV
Van
Water
Way
X
X
X
Adjectives
+er
+est
All gone
Another
Afraid
Bad
Better
Best
Big
Bored
Busy
Clean
Cold
Cool
X
Different
Dirty
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Confused
X
X
Done
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Color Core Word Board
Toddler’s Vocabulary
Preschooler’s
Vocabulary
Core Vocabulary for
Students with
Intellectual Disabilities
Core Vocabulary &
Dolch Core
Dry
Dumb
Early
Easy
X
Empty
Enough
Even
Fast
X
Favorite
First
Fine
X
X
X
X
Finished
Five
Good
Great
Happy
Hard
High
Hot
Hungry
Important
Kind
Last
Late
Little
Long
Loud
X
X
Full
Funny
Gone
X
X
X
X
Head
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Light
X
X
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Color Core Word Board
Toddler’s Vocabulary
Mad
Many
Mean
Medium
Messy
Preschooler’s
Vocabulary
Core Vocabulary for
Students with
Intellectual Disabilities
Core Vocabulary &
Dolch Core
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
How
Middle
More
Most
New
Next
Nice
Old
Only
Other
Pretty
Quiet
Real
Right
Sad
Same
Sick
Smart
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
One
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Scared
Short
X
Silly
Slow
X
Soft
X
Strong
Tall
9
Color Core Word Board
Toddler’s Vocabulary
Preschooler’s
Vocabulary
Core Vocabulary for
Students with
Intellectual Disabilities
Core Vocabulary &
Dolch Core
Thirsty
Three
Two
Whole
Why
Tired
True
Ugly
X
Wet
Wild
Weak
Wrong
X
Black
White
Red
Green
Yellow
Purple
Blue
Orange
X
X
X
X
Interrogatives
How
Why
Where
Who
What
X
X
X
X
X
X
Where’s
Which
X
X
What’s
X
X
X
X
X
10
Color Core Word Board
Toddler’s Vocabulary
Preschooler’s
Vocabulary
Core Vocabulary for
Students with
Intellectual Disabilities
When
X
X
X
How much
X
X
Already
X
Core Vocabulary &
Dolch Core
Adverbs
Again
Almost
X
Alright
Also
Always
Away
Here
Just
Maybe
Much
Never
Now
Ready
Really
So
Still
Then
There
Together
Very
X
X
X
Else
X
Here’s
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Sometimes
Somewhere
X
X
X
X
Too
X
Well
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
11
Color Core Word Board
Toddler’s Vocabulary
Preschooler’s
Vocabulary
Core Vocabulary for
Students with
Intellectual Disabilities
Core Vocabulary &
Dolch Core
X
X
Yet
Verbs
+s
+ing
+ed
+en
+er
To+
Add
Answer
Ask
Bet
Bite
Break
Bring
Build
Buy
Call
Carry
Catch
Change
Clean
Climb
Close
Color
Come
Cook
Count
Being
X
X
X
X
X
X
Came
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Comes
X
X
X
X
X
12
Color Core Word Board
Toddler’s Vocabulary
Cut
Dance
Draw
Dress
Drink
Drive
Drop
Eat
Core Vocabulary &
Dolch Core
X
X
X
X
Eating
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Fixed
X
Fly
Follow
Forget
Get
Guess
Hear
Help
Core Vocabulary for
Students with
Intellectual Disabilities
X
End
Excite
Fall
Feel
Find
Finish
Fix
Give
Go
Preschooler’s
Vocabulary
X
X
Found
X
Gets
Getting
X
X
Goes
Going
Gonna
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
13
Color Core Word Board
Hide
Hold
Hug
Hurt
Imagine
Join
Joke
Jump
Keep
Kiss
Kick
Know
Laugh
Learn
Leave
Let
Lift
Like
Listen
Live
Look
Toddler’s Vocabulary
Preschooler’s
Vocabulary
Core Vocabulary for
Students with
Intellectual Disabilities
Core Vocabulary &
Dolch Core
X
X
X
X
X
X
Jumped
Jumping
X
X
Leaves
X
X
X
X
Looking
Lose
Love
Make
Match
Meet
Miss
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Made
X
X
X
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Move
Name
Need
Open
Paint
Pay
Pick
Play
Point
Pour
Pretend
Pull
Push
Put
Quit
Read
Relax
Remember
Ride
Run
Say
See
Share
Show
Shut
Sing
Sit
Sleep
Sound
Toddler’s Vocabulary
Preschooler’s
Vocabulary
X
X
Named
X
X
X
Core Vocabulary for
Students with
Intellectual Disabilities
X
X
Core Vocabulary &
Dolch Core
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Said
Saw
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
15
Color Core Word Board
Toddler’s Vocabulary
Preschooler’s
Vocabulary
Core Vocabulary for
Students with
Intellectual Disabilities
Core Vocabulary &
Dolch Core
Stand
Start
Stay
Stir
Stop
Swim
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Thanks
X
X
X
Swing
Take
Talk
Teach
Tell
X
Think
Threw
Throw
Try
X
Trying
X
Turn
Understand
Use
Visit
Wait
Walk
Want
Wash
Watch
Wear
X
X
Used
X
X
X
Wanted
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Went
Win
Work
X
X
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Color Core Word Board
Toddler’s Vocabulary
Preschooler’s
Vocabulary
Write
Yell
Core Vocabulary for
Students with
Intellectual Disabilities
Core Vocabulary &
Dolch Core
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Negation
Aren’t
Can’t
Couldn’t
Didn’t
Haven’t
Isn’t
X
X
X
Wasn’t
Won’t
Not
Don’t
Doesn’t
Auxiliary Verbs
What
Am
Are
Is
Be
Can
Could
Did
Do/does
Had
Has
Have
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Doing
X
X
X
May
Might
Must
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Color Core Word Board
Should
Was
Were
Will
Would
Toddler’s Vocabulary
Preschooler’s
Vocabulary
Core Vocabulary for
Students with
Intellectual Disabilities
Core Vocabulary &
Dolch Core
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Cause
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Conjunctions
And
As
Because
Both
But
If
Or
Than
Unless
Until
X
X
X
While
Prepositions
Where
About
Across
After
Around
At
Back
Before
Bottom
By
Down
For
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
18
Color Core Word Board
From
Front
In
Inside
Next to
Of
Off
On
Out
Outside
Over
Toddler’s Vocabulary
Preschooler’s
Vocabulary
Core Vocabulary for
Students with
Intellectual Disabilities
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
To
X
X
Top
Through
Under
Up
With
X
X
Core Vocabulary &
Dolch Core
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Interjections
Yes
X
Ah
Bye
X
Ya
X
Yeah
No
Maybe
Excuse me
Fine
Good bye
Hello
Hi
X
X
X
X
Huh
X
X
X
X
19
Color Core Word Board
Let’s
Toddler’s Vocabulary
Preschooler’s
Vocabulary
Core Vocabulary for
Students with
Intellectual Disabilities
Core Vocabulary &
Dolch Core
X
X
X
Hum
X
Oh
Okay
Please
Sorry
Surprise
Thank you
Welcome
OK
X
X
Um
Time
When
Today
Tomorrow
Tonight
Yesterday
Morning
Afternoon
Noon
Night
Evening
Day
Week
Weekend
Month
Year
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
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Color Core Word Board
Toddler’s Vocabulary
Preschooler’s
Vocabulary
Core Vocabulary for
Students with
Intellectual Disabilities
Core Vocabulary &
Dolch Core
Friday
Sunday
Minute
Second
Hour
O’clock
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Winter
Spring
Summer
Fall (Autumn)
Hurry
Late
Later
First
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