St. Patrick Book Companion for Use with How to Catch a Leprechaun Speech Therapy

Use this St. Patrick's Day book companion with How to Catch a Leprechaun and SAVE TIME with step-by-step plans for literacy-based speech and language therapy activities. Target a range of skills, including story grammar elements, Tier 2 vocabulary, predicting, comprehension, true vs. false, creating a narrative, retelling, writing a persuasive letter, following a recipe, and writing text responses, while teaching your students to understand and use narratives. Story-related extension activities allow your students to explore the text on a deeper level. Includes PRINTABLE GUIDES for DAYS OF LESSONS and the materials you'll need to quickly and effectively implement evidence-based elements of literacy-based language instruction.

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This printable Book Companion resource includes:

Pre-Reading Book Walk Activities:

• Story Grammar Elements Anchor Chart and picture icons
• Leprechauns: elicit background knowledge using a K. W. L. Chart (what I Know, what I Want to know, what I've Learned)
• Tier 2 Vocabulary Preview with definitions/familiar contexts/Task cards
• Cover Preview
• Prediction Activity for pre-and post-reading comparison

Reading Activities:

• Story Grammar Elements Mapping using a Beginning, Middle and End story structure, with graphic organizers and visuals from the story for identifying and matching to each story element
• Comprehension: literal and inferential questions
• Story Sequence Map Activity: visually follow along to support active listening or use to support retelling the story
• Text Connections Activity with Thinking Sentence Starters (text-self, text-text, and text-world connections)
• Create a Parallel Narrative Story Activity: talk about a similar experience using Story Grammar Elements

Extension Activities:

• My Leprechaun Trap Reader Response Activity: students draw and/or write about a trap they would build to catch a leprechaun using DIFFERENTIATED RESPONSE OPTIONS (illustration box alone, illustration box and writing sheet, or writing sheet alone)
• True vs. False Activity: students identify statements about the story as true or false
• Slow vs. Quick Sorting Activity: students cut, sort, and glue pictured items into groups of things that are slow and groups of things that are quick
• Writing a Persuasive Letter Activity: students write a convincing letter persuading an audience to allow them to hold a contest using a Persuasive Letter Planning graphic organizer
• Leprechaun Snack Mix Activity: with digital and printable recipe; make the RECIPE with your students then complete a procedural WRITING activity with 2 response options

This resource was created to be compatible with the book "How to Catch a Leprechaun" by Adam Wallace; it is supplemental material and does not replace the book. The book should be purchased separately.

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