Need a St. Patrick’s Day speech therapy activity that can cover multiple goals without planning something different for every student, group, or intervention setting?
This St. Patrick’s Day Speech Therapy Busy Scene gives you one engaging seasonal visual with multiple ways to target speech, language, social communication, phonological awareness, inferencing, problem-solving, and higher-level language skills.
Use it as a seasonal rotation in your Language Lane schoolwide Tier 1 system, during Tier 2 speech and language intervention, in speech therapy treatment sessions, with mixed groups, during classroom collaboration, or send selected activities home for additional practice.
One St. Patrick’s Day scene. Multiple speech and language targets.
Students can use the same shared visual while you adjust the question, prompt, or level of support based on individual communication goals.
USE THIS RESOURCE FOR:
Tier 1 schoolwide speech and language support
Language Lane St. Patrick’s Day rotations
Tier 2 targeted speech and language intervention
Individual speech therapy sessions
Small-group speech therapy
Mixed speech and language groups
St. Patrick’s Day speech therapy activities
March speech therapy activities
Spring speech and language activities
Classroom communication practice
Speech and language carryover
Home practice
WHAT’S INCLUDED?
This St. Patrick’s Day speech therapy resource includes:
Colorful St. Patrick’s Day busy scene
Short St. Patrick’s Day story
10 story comprehension questions
10 Look + Think visual reasoning prompts
10 WH questions
10 yes/no questions
10 spatial concept questions
10 following directions
10 vocabulary and category prompts
10 function and describing prompts
10 compare and contrast questions
10 cause and effect questions
10 inferencing and predicting prompts
10 problem-solving situations
10 functional social language prompts
10 phonological awareness activities
Articulation word bank using St. Patrick’s Day vocabulary
The included activities incorporate seasonal vocabulary such as harp, shamrock, lucky, rainbow, gold coins, horseshoe, leprechaun, Ireland’s flag, and decorations while still targeting functional speech and language skills.
TWO FILE FORMATS INCLUDED
For added flexibility, you will receive:
The complete resource as a printable PDF
The St. Patrick’s Day busy scene separately as a PNG file
Use the PDF during speech therapy sessions, intervention groups, classroom practice, or home practice. Use the separate PNG to resize the scene or have it printed at poster size for a larger Language Lane, hallway, classroom, or bulletin board display.
TARGET MULTIPLE SPEECH AND LANGUAGE SKILLS
Receptive Language
WH questions
Yes/no questions
Following directions
Spatial concepts
Story comprehension
Identifying visual details
Expressive Language
St. Patrick’s Day vocabulary
Categories
Describing
Object functions
Compare and contrast
Cause and effect
Sequencing
Retelling
Narrative language
Higher-Level Language
Inferencing
Predicting
Problem-solving
Explaining reasoning
Using visual clues
Cause and effect
Discussing possible outcomes
The included story, The Lucky Music Mix-Up!, follows Maeve, Jordan, and Finn as they prepare for a St. Patrick’s Day music show, search for a missing lucky coin, and work together when another problem almost causes the jar of coins to spill.
FUNCTIONAL SOCIAL COMMUNICATION
Students can practice communication skills such as:
Requesting a turn
Giving a compliment
Asking for clarification
Alerting someone to a problem
Saying thank you
Making a polite request
Including someone in an activity
Suggesting a fair solution
Apologizing and fixing a mistake
Respectfully including someone who does not celebrate St. Patrick’s Day
The social language section intentionally includes a prompt about respectfully including someone who does not celebrate the holiday, giving you a natural opportunity to discuss inclusive communication.
SPEECH + PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS
The included sound activities provide opportunities for:
Beginning sound identification
Syllable segmentation
Rhyming
Matching words with the same beginning sound
Articulation practice using seasonal vocabulary
The articulation word bank includes a variety of consonants and blends using words naturally connected to the scene, including green, gold, harp, horseshoe, lucky, leprechaun, rainbow, shamrock, flag, floor, playing, and more.
PERFECT FOR MIXED SPEECH THERAPY GROUPS
Mixed groups do not have to mean planning several completely different activities.
Keep the St. Patrick’s Day busy scene in front of everyone while one student answers a WH question, another describes an item, another makes an inference, another works through a social problem, and another practices an articulation target.
The shared visual keeps students participating in the same activity while allowing you to individualize each student’s speech or language goal.
USE IT FOR MTSS AND BEYOND
This resource was created as part of the Language Lane system, but it can also be used independently throughout your speech and language program.
Use it:
On your Language Lane bulletin board for schoolwide Tier 1 communication support
During targeted Tier 2 speech and language intervention
During individual speech therapy
In small or mixed speech therapy groups
During classroom collaboration
For speech and language generalization
For extra St. Patrick’s Day or March practice
As speech and language home practice
PLEASE NOTE
This listing includes the St. Patrick’s Day Language Lane busy scene and matching speech and language activities.
The Language Lane Foundation, including the bulletin board setup, implementation guide, staff tools, and schoolwide Tier 1 framework, is sold separately.
Whether you are building a schoolwide MTSS communication system or simply need a versatile St. Patrick’s Day speech therapy activity, this busy scene gives you multiple ways to target communication goals without creating a separate activity for every student.
Need a St. Patrick’s Day speech therapy activity that can cover multiple goals without planning something different for every student, group, or intervention setting?
This St. Patrick’s Day Speech Therapy Busy Scene gives you one engaging seasonal visual with multiple ways to target speech, language, social communication, phonological awareness, inferencing, problem-solving, and higher-level language skills.
Use it as a seasonal rotation in your Language Lane schoolwide Tier 1 system, during Tier 2 speech and language intervention, in speech therapy treatment sessions, with mixed groups, during classroom collaboration, or send selected activities home for additional practice.
One St. Patrick’s Day scene. Multiple speech and language targets.
Students can use the same shared visual while you adjust the question, prompt, or level of support based on individual communication goals.
USE THIS RESOURCE FOR:
Tier 1 schoolwide speech and language support
Language Lane St. Patrick’s Day rotations
Tier 2 targeted speech and language intervention
Individual speech therapy sessions
Small-group speech therapy
Mixed speech and language groups
St. Patrick’s Day speech therapy activities
March speech therapy activities
Spring speech and language activities
Classroom communication practice
Speech and language carryover
Home practice
WHAT’S INCLUDED?
This St. Patrick’s Day speech therapy resource includes:
Colorful St. Patrick’s Day busy scene
Short St. Patrick’s Day story
10 story comprehension questions
10 Look + Think visual reasoning prompts
10 WH questions
10 yes/no questions
10 spatial concept questions
10 following directions
10 vocabulary and category prompts
10 function and describing prompts
10 compare and contrast questions
10 cause and effect questions
10 inferencing and predicting prompts
10 problem-solving situations
10 functional social language prompts
10 phonological awareness activities
Articulation word bank using St. Patrick’s Day vocabulary
The included activities incorporate seasonal vocabulary such as harp, shamrock, lucky, rainbow, gold coins, horseshoe, leprechaun, Ireland’s flag, and decorations while still targeting functional speech and language skills.
TWO FILE FORMATS INCLUDED
For added flexibility, you will receive:
The complete resource as a printable PDF
The St. Patrick’s Day busy scene separately as a PNG file
Use the PDF during speech therapy sessions, intervention groups, classroom practice, or home practice. Use the separate PNG to resize the scene or have it printed at poster size for a larger Language Lane, hallway, classroom, or bulletin board display.
TARGET MULTIPLE SPEECH AND LANGUAGE SKILLS
Receptive Language
WH questions
Yes/no questions
Following directions
Spatial concepts
Story comprehension
Identifying visual details
Expressive Language
St. Patrick’s Day vocabulary
Categories
Describing
Object functions
Compare and contrast
Cause and effect
Sequencing
Retelling
Narrative language
Higher-Level Language
Inferencing
Predicting
Problem-solving
Explaining reasoning
Using visual clues
Cause and effect
Discussing possible outcomes
The included story, The Lucky Music Mix-Up!, follows Maeve, Jordan, and Finn as they prepare for a St. Patrick’s Day music show, search for a missing lucky coin, and work together when another problem almost causes the jar of coins to spill.
FUNCTIONAL SOCIAL COMMUNICATION
Students can practice communication skills such as:
Requesting a turn
Giving a compliment
Asking for clarification
Alerting someone to a problem
Saying thank you
Making a polite request
Including someone in an activity
Suggesting a fair solution
Apologizing and fixing a mistake
Respectfully including someone who does not celebrate St. Patrick’s Day
The social language section intentionally includes a prompt about respectfully including someone who does not celebrate the holiday, giving you a natural opportunity to discuss inclusive communication.
SPEECH + PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS
The included sound activities provide opportunities for:
Beginning sound identification
Syllable segmentation
Rhyming
Matching words with the same beginning sound
Articulation practice using seasonal vocabulary
The articulation word bank includes a variety of consonants and blends using words naturally connected to the scene, including green, gold, harp, horseshoe, lucky, leprechaun, rainbow, shamrock, flag, floor, playing, and more.
PERFECT FOR MIXED SPEECH THERAPY GROUPS
Mixed groups do not have to mean planning several completely different activities.
Keep the St. Patrick’s Day busy scene in front of everyone while one student answers a WH question, another describes an item, another makes an inference, another works through a social problem, and another practices an articulation target.
The shared visual keeps students participating in the same activity while allowing you to individualize each student’s speech or language goal.
USE IT FOR MTSS AND BEYOND
This resource was created as part of the Language Lane system, but it can also be used independently throughout your speech and language program.
Use it:
On your Language Lane bulletin board for schoolwide Tier 1 communication support
During targeted Tier 2 speech and language intervention
During individual speech therapy
In small or mixed speech therapy groups
During classroom collaboration
For speech and language generalization
For extra St. Patrick’s Day or March practice
As speech and language home practice
PLEASE NOTE
This listing includes the St. Patrick’s Day Language Lane busy scene and matching speech and language activities.
The Language Lane Foundation, including the bulletin board setup, implementation guide, staff tools, and schoolwide Tier 1 framework, is sold separately.
Whether you are building a schoolwide MTSS communication system or simply need a versatile St. Patrick’s Day speech therapy activity, this busy scene gives you multiple ways to target communication goals without creating a separate activity for every student.
