• A boxed card game titled "Multiple Meanings Companion Cards" featuring a lavender-and-white checkered box design, large yellow title text, and an illustrated waitress holding a burger. The visible brand is Speak & Learn.
  • A Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) demonstrating how to use the Balancing Burger Multiple Meanings Companion Cards
  • A children's educational card titled 'bark' with a purple checkered border. The card shows two images labeled 'bark' at the top: a black-and-white dog on the left and tree bark on the right.
  • A Spanish language educational card titled 'foot' with a purple checkered border. The card features a photo of a human foot in a blue box and a yellow measuring stick in a red box, both labeled 'foot'.
  • A Spanish learning card titled 'bat' showing two images of the word 'bat' with different meanings: a small flying bird in a blue box and a wooden baseball bat in a red box. Below, there are exercises with colored icons prompting the user to write a sentence using 'bat', define its meaning, identify its part of speech, and complete a crossword-style word puzzle.
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Multiple Meaning Words: Balancing Burger Companion Cards

Multiple Meaning Words: Balancing Burger Companion Cards

Build Semantic Flexibility with Multiple-Meaning Words

By Rachele Ellsworth, M.S., CCC-SLP

Grades 1 - 6 | Ages 6 - 12

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Words that carry more than one meaning trip up many students, yet they appear constantly in reading and conversation. These companion cards give repeated, meaningful practice with high-utility multiple-meaning words.

Build semantic flexibility and word awareness through cooperative, game-based practice with multiple-meaning words.

This companion set expands the Balancing Language Burger with 50 content cards focused on homographs and multiple-meaning words, spread across six burger toppings. Students build the burger together while working each target word in more than one way.

Each card asks students to:

  • Define the target word
  • Use it in a sentence that shows a different meaning
  • Identify its part of speech

How to play:

  1. Pair the cards with the Balancing Language Burger game.
  2. A player rolls the die.
  3. The die shows a burger topping, so the player takes the matching card.
  4. The player answers the prompt on the matching card.
  5. After a correct response, the player adds that topping to the wobbly plate.
  6. Play continues cooperatively until the group builds one complete burger without it toppling.

Who are these companion cards helpful for?

These multiple-meaning-word companion cards are ideal for Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs), special educators, and classroom teachers. They suit students in grades 1 through 6 who are building vocabulary depth and flexibility. These companion cards suit individual therapy, small group intervention, classroom-based language programming, and home practice with families.

Why Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) love these companion cards:

Multiple-meaning words are a documented source of comprehension breakdown, and this deck gives concentrated, high-repetition practice in a format students want to keep playing. The define, use, and part-of-speech routine builds flexible word knowledge that transfers to reading.

Multiple Meaning Words: Balancing Burger Companion Cards includes:

  • 50 content cards spanning six burger toppings
  • 2 game variation cards

Please note: This is a companion card set for the Balancing Language Burger. The game is not included, but can be purchased separately here.

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