Give your students the tools to describe like pros with this fun, visual, and engaging back-to-school themed describing wheel!
Looking for an easy, hands-on activity to boost vocabulary, describing skills, and expressive/receptive language? This Back to School Describing Wheel is the perfect addition to your speech therapy toolbox—low prep, highly interactive, and full of visual supports. It’s designed for speech-language pathologists, special educators, interventionists, and even classroom teachers working on Tier 1 and Tier 2 language interventions under MTSS or RTI frameworks.
Students place a school-themed vocabulary picture in the center of the wheel and work their way around using prompts like: What does it look like? What category is it in? What action is it doing? What color is it?—making it ideal for describing, categorization, critical thinking, and language expansion.
What’s Included:
1 Describing Wheel Mat with 8 prompts: emotion, size, senses, gender, category, action, shape, and color
20+ Back to School Vocabulary Picture Cards (e.g., pencil, backpack, apple, lunchbox, notebook, school supplies, students)
Visual supports on each section to support emergent learners
Low-prep print-and-go format
Why You’ll Love This Resource:
Engaging and hands-on for students
Supports descriptive language, receptive and expressive language, and vocabulary expansion
Themed for Back to School, making it ideal for August/September therapy sessions
Simple setup = less prep for you, more learning for them
Great for both small groups and individual therapy
Who It’s Perfect For:
Speech-language pathologists (SLPs)
Special education teachers
General education teachers providing Tier 1 or Tier 2 support
Parents or homeschool educators
MTSS/RTI teams looking for meaningful language interventions
How It’s Versatile:
Can be used to target descriptive vocabulary, sentence formation, WH questions, and language formulation
Flexible enough for mixed groups and adaptable across a range of skill levels
Works great as a warm-up, center activity, or progress monitoring tool
This describing wheel makes teaching expressive and receptive language skills simple, structured, and FUN.
Whether you're working on expanding vocabulary or prepping for a back-to-school language unit, this tool is a must-have!
Give your students the tools to describe like pros with this fun, visual, and engaging back-to-school themed describing wheel!
Looking for an easy, hands-on activity to boost vocabulary, describing skills, and expressive/receptive language? This Back to School Describing Wheel is the perfect addition to your speech therapy toolbox—low prep, highly interactive, and full of visual supports. It’s designed for speech-language pathologists, special educators, interventionists, and even classroom teachers working on Tier 1 and Tier 2 language interventions under MTSS or RTI frameworks.
Students place a school-themed vocabulary picture in the center of the wheel and work their way around using prompts like: What does it look like? What category is it in? What action is it doing? What color is it?—making it ideal for describing, categorization, critical thinking, and language expansion.
What’s Included:
1 Describing Wheel Mat with 8 prompts: emotion, size, senses, gender, category, action, shape, and color
20+ Back to School Vocabulary Picture Cards (e.g., pencil, backpack, apple, lunchbox, notebook, school supplies, students)
Visual supports on each section to support emergent learners
Low-prep print-and-go format
Why You’ll Love This Resource:
Engaging and hands-on for students
Supports descriptive language, receptive and expressive language, and vocabulary expansion
Themed for Back to School, making it ideal for August/September therapy sessions
Simple setup = less prep for you, more learning for them
Great for both small groups and individual therapy
Who It’s Perfect For:
Speech-language pathologists (SLPs)
Special education teachers
General education teachers providing Tier 1 or Tier 2 support
Parents or homeschool educators
MTSS/RTI teams looking for meaningful language interventions
How It’s Versatile:
Can be used to target descriptive vocabulary, sentence formation, WH questions, and language formulation
Flexible enough for mixed groups and adaptable across a range of skill levels
Works great as a warm-up, center activity, or progress monitoring tool
This describing wheel makes teaching expressive and receptive language skills simple, structured, and FUN.
Whether you're working on expanding vocabulary or prepping for a back-to-school language unit, this tool is a must-have!
