Download: SLAM Kittens Love Milk (English)
This set of language elicitation cards and questions was designed as a tool to be used in assessing language for preschool and elementary school aged children. These cards elicit an evidence-based language sample that can be analyzed using the Guidelines for Analysis. Developed by Cate Crowley and Miriam Baigorri. Illustrated by Tina Yeung.
Crowley, C. & Baigorri, M. (2025). School-age Language Assessment Measures: Kittens Love Milk. Leadersproject.org https://www.leadersproject.org/2025/12/14/slam-kittens-love-milk-cards/
Translations:
- SPANISH (español): SLAM Kittens Love Milk Spanish Translation
SLAM Guidelines for Analysis support note-taking and analysis: click here (Kittens Love Milk GFA coming soon!)
SLAM BOOM! Cards for Teletherapy/Telepractice Dog Comes Home: coming soon!
Find other SLAM materials here!
Evaluation Questions:
- Can you put these in order with me?
- Tell me the story (eliciting complex sentences and markers of narratives and language)
- What are the kittens thinking here? (Can give a prompt so they see that there is a leaky milk carton, but initially don’t give them the causal connection that they want to drink the milk that is spilling unless they need a dynamic prompt to do that.)
- Why don’t these cats (the ones with the filled bellies) follow the woman up the stairs?
- What was the little kitten’s idea when she followed the woman up the stairs and then jumped into her bag?
- Why doesn’t the woman know that the kitten is in her bag?
- What do you think the woman is going to do now that she sees the kitten in her bag?
- What would you do if you found a kitten in your grocery bag?