Witch's Potion Descriptions
by ThePeachTeacher © 2025
Price: $3 USD
Subjects: expressiveLanguage,speech,modalitiesAAC,communicationModalities
Grades: 0
Description
Frogs, toadstools, beetles, eyes, and socks! Given a set of 3 items in the same category, choose one (or more) by describing it with good adjectives and verbs. Next, drop it in the cauldron to make a potion! Target sentences as complicated as "Add the brown striped snake that's crawling around a pole" with 300 unique pictured items across 100 pages, each page covering one category (e.g., snakes, dresses, tulips, eggs, rings, spiders). Some categories are repeated (multiple pages of frogs), but each item is unique to that page. An earlier version of this activity was very popular with elementary, middle, and high school students while we worked remotely. These days, I use it to expand utterances by insisting on sufficient description and to support students learning more vocabulary with their augmentative communication devices. This is an adult-facilitated activity as it provides no cues beyond the pictures and is not self-checking. Updated 2025-11-07 to make the skirts, dresses, and pants larger. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.1.1.c CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.1.1.f CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.2.1.e CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.2.5.b CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.1.e CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.4.1.b CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.4.1.d
Acknowledgements
Pictures from Pixabay.com, AnimatedImages.org, or GIFGIFS.com, or original. The flames, for example, I repainted from a gif found on both AnimatedImages and GIFGIFS.