(The St Patrick’s Day edition)}

Descriptive Language
Guessing Game and Sentence Builder
Emily Richardson, M.S., CCC-SLP 2013

Includes:
Clue cards with I can describe:
Rainbow
matching answer
Shamrock
cards
Pot of Gold
Irish Flag
Picture Choice Board
Leprechaun
March
Descriptive Writing
Sentence Builder Using the descriptive
language of:
with sentence Color
structure and answer Location
choices Parts

Communication
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 (The St Patrick’s Day edition)
Descriptive Language Guessing Game and Sentence Builder

Emily Richardson, M.S., CCC-SLP 2013

Follow the clues to describe six items common to St Patrick’s Day. Visual structure is provided throughout the
activities. These activities promote descriptive language skills, social interaction with questioning and answers
between peers, and expanding sentence structure. It works bottom up to provide the detailed clues where
students generate the answer, as well as top down where the item is given and the student describes it with details.
The contents include:

~Clue cards with matching answer cards

•Describes six items (rainbow, shamrock, pot of gold, Irish flag, leprechaun, March) using the descriptions of
color, location, and parts. A visual picture choice board is provided if needed for answer choices.

~A poster to remind students of each category of clues (color, location, parts).

~Descriptive Writing Sentence Builder

•Each page has three sentences with supporting structure. There is also a word bank with three choices
grouped by descriptive label. Each sentence uses all three labels taught within the descriptive set.

~Communication notes to encourage carryover

~Student direction page for independent centers

Enjoy! I hope you find your pot of gold at the end of the rainbow!
to answer “What is it ?”

Clue #1 color

Clue #2 location

Clue #3 parts
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 to answer “What is it ?”

color location parts

The SHADE The PLACE PIECES that

of light where you go together
that is find to make a
reflected something whole
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Clue #1 It has seven different
colors.
Clue #2 It is found in the sky.
Clue #3 It has seven bands of The clues tell me…
colors in a specific order. It is a rainbow.
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Clue #1 It is green.
Clue #2 It is found in a field.
Clue #3 It has 3 or 4 heart
shaped leaves and a stem. The clues tell me…
It is a shamrock.
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Clue #1 It is black.
Clue #2 It is found at the
end of a rainbow.
Clue #3 It is a big container, The clues tell me…
with handles, and is filled It is a pot of gold.
with shiny coins.
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Clue #1 It is green, white, and
orange.
Clue #2 It is flown on a pole in
Ireland. The clues tell me…
Clue #3 It is material with three It is an Irish flag.
rectangular blocks .
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Clue #1 It wears green.

Clue #2 It is by a pot of gold or
in the shoemaker’s shop.
Clue #3 It has a little body, The clues tell me…
green clothes, sometimes It is a leprechaun.
an orange beard, and a hat.
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Clue #1 Green leaves and

colorful blossoms at this time.
Clue #2 In the Spring season.
Clue #3 It is made up of thirty-
one days.
What is it?
The clues tell me…
It is the month of March.
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 I can describe using color, location, parts.

A rainbow is , , and .
color location parts

A shamrock is , , and .
color location parts

A pot of gold is , , and .

color location parts

color location parts

black in a field has handles & coins
colorful at end of a rainbow has 3 or 4 leaves & stem
green in the sky has 7 bands of color

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 I can describe using color, location, parts.

A leprechaun is color
, location
, and parts
.
An Irish flag is color
, location
, and parts
.

March is a time , , and .

color location parts

color location parts

green, white, & orange in Ireland has 31 days
wearing green in spring has 3 rectangular blocks
with colorful blossoms by a pot of gold has a hat & beard

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 to answer “What is it ?”
Color - Location - Parts

rainbow shamrock pot of gold

Irish flag leprechaun March

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 to answer “What am I ?”

Read the clues that

1. describe color,
location, and parts.

2. Match the clues to

the correct answer.

Use the word bank

3. to write descriptive
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 We are learning how to “Follow the Clues” to answer questions and describe.
This unit is teaching me to follow the clues to answer “What am I?”
Clue #1 Color Clue #2 Location Clue #3 Parts

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Date: Activity & Therapy notes: Communication skills practiced at
home:

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Date: Activity & Therapy notes: Communication skills practiced at

home:

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Date: Activity & Therapy notes: Communication skills practiced at

home:

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