St Patricks Day Adapted Book | Position Words First Last Middle | SLP SPED

This St. Patrick's Day Adapted Book, "Three Little Leprechauns," teaches ordinal and positional words — first, last, middle, left, right, and center — through a fun, rhyming, interactive story. Students identify the correct leprechaun in each position and match the matching piece to each page, turning a sweet seasonal book into targeted practice on a high-priority year-round SLP IEP goal.

🍀 Perfect for:

• Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) targeting positional words, ordinal concepts, and following directions goals
• Special Education teachers building St. Patrick's Day and March thematic units
• Autism classrooms working on positional concepts and spatial language
• Occupational Therapists working on spatial awareness, left/right discrimination, and fine motor skills
• ABA therapists running discrete trial positional concept programs
• Early Childhood, Pre-K, Kindergarten, and 1st Grade teachers
• ELL/ESL teachers building English positional and ordinal vocabulary
• Homeschool families with young learners

🌈 What's Included:

• 1 Adapted Interactive Book — Three Little Leprechauns
• Interactive matching pieces (leprechauns in different positions)
• Coverage of 6 positional and ordinal concepts

🎯 Skills Targeted:

Positional and ordinal vocabulary (first, last, middle, left, right, center), spatial awareness, left/right discrimination, ordinal concept development, listening comprehension, expressive and receptive language, following directions, sentence completion, and fine motor skills (Velcro manipulation).

Sample Text:

"Three little leprechauns, standing in a row.

Three little leprechauns, ready for a show.

Where are they standing we have to know!

Who's last?......"

How to Use:

In a small group, the teacher or therapist reads each rhyme while students identify the position being described and select the correct leprechaun matching piece. Independent learners can read and work through the book at a literacy center or workstation.

🍻 Ways to Use:

• St. Patrick's Day and March thematic units
• Speech therapy positional and ordinal concept sessions
• Positional concepts IEP goal data collection
• Left/right discrimination practice
• Independent work systems (TEACCH)
• ABA discrete trial positional word training
• Literacy centers and morning meetings
• OT spatial awareness and left/right work
• Whole-class St. Patrick's Day party activity
• ESL/ELL positional vocabulary lessons
• Take-home homework and tele-therapy practice