That's What Leprechauns Do activities and lesson plan ideas

Our That's What Leprechauns Do are now digital for distance learning with editable teaching slides and worksheets based on Eve Bunting's book. Read aloud the St. Patrick's Day picture book then use the printables or go paperless with Google or Seesaw to practice standards-based skills.

THIS READING UNIT FOCUSES ON USING THE MENTOR TEXT TO TEACH:

◼️ READING STRATEGIES

☐ summarize / retell

☐ visualizing

☐ making connections

☐ ask and answer questions

☐ sequencing

◼️ SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING TOPICS

☐ responsibility

◼️ GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE CONCEPTS

☐ possessive nouns

☐ nouns

☐ prepositions

SUMMARY OF THE MENTOR TEXT:

Three leprechauns, Art, Boo, and Col, notice that rain clouds are making their way across the sky. They have an important leprechaun duty to complete so they begin to pack up their things and head out. While they agree that they don’t engage in mischief along the way, they find themselves causing some trouble. They paint a cow’s hooves red, tie a man’s pants together, and put a tennis ball inside a hen's nest.

As the rainbow makes its way across the sky, the leprechauns realize they must make it to the end of the rainbow before it’s too late. When they get there, the three leprechauns dig up their pot of gold and place it at the end of the rainbow. Although they wait for a while, by the time the sky clears no one has come to find the pot of gold. Art, Boo, and Col put away the pot and head out to find more mischief.

THIS COLLECTION OF ACTIVITIES and LESSON IDEAS INCLUDES:

➜ Comprehension Questions categorized by reading strategy; text-dependent
➜ Social-Emotional Learning guidance lesson ideas & discussion topics based on the story
➜ Vocabulary Activities with kid-friendly definitions
➜ Grammar Topics selected to align with the text
➜ Focus Sentences use the book & author's craft as a mentor text to improve writing
➜ Lesson Planner summary, background info and planning space

➜ Story Mapping Printable identify character, setting, problem and solution

➜ Making Words Activity Page use any word from the book

➜ Focus Sentence copy work, identifying elements of the sentence, rewriting)

➜ Design a New Book Cover demonstrate understanding of the text by creating an illustration

➜ Predicting Activity primary-ruled and wider-ruled versions
➜ Summarizing Somebody → Wanted → But → Then → Finally

➜ Comparing and Contrasting using a Venn Diagram

➜ Cause and Effect analyze how events affect one another

➜ Visualization illustrate visualizations from the story and support thinking with text-based evidence

➜ Making Connections identify text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections

➜ Thematic Writing Paper Use with the Writing Prompts... Makes a Great Bulletin Board

➜ 2 Sequencing Activities First → Next → Then → Last and Beginning → Middle → End

➜ 2 Vocabulary Activities Vocabulary Booklet and Word Mapping

➜ 2 Character Trait Activities listing traits and supporting traits with text-based evidence
➜ 30 Text-Based Writing Prompts 3 prompts for each of the following types of writing:

• narrative
• persuasive / opinion
• descriptive
• expository / informative
• creative / story writing
• procedure / how-to
• list-making
• letter / postcard writing
• poem
• book reviews

INCLUDED DIGITAL ACTIVITIES:

➜ 5 Teaching Slides to use for instruction (add questions, vocabulary, instructions, etc)

➜ 15 Student Pages for use in Google™️ Classroom or as editable files to create customized printables