St. Patrick's Day Read Aloud Activities | Leprechauns, Rainbows, Escape Room

Get your students excited about reading with these St. Patrick's Day and spring reading comprehension activities! With this bundle, you’ll get four units of engaging, differentiated instruction that will have your students begging for more. Each unit focuses on a different reading strategy or skill, and includes lesson plans, crafts, STEM activities, writing prompts, bulletin board ideas, vocabulary activities, grammar practice...and so much more!

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How to Catch a Leprechaun

This How to Catch a Leprechaun unit is perfect for the weeks leading up to St. Patrick’s Day. It includes reading, writing, and STEM connections. Students begin by listening to the story How to Catch a Leprechaun. A read aloud link and question guide is included. Students review the story elements and complete a story map. Next, students learn about opinion writing and complete a writing prompt and leprechaun craft. Your students can have fun hiding their leprechauns around the school or classroom. Then, students will use their creativity to follow a simplified process to design their very own leprechaun trap.

Focus: story elements, opinion writing, informational writing, STEM (design, plan, create, reflect)

St. Patrick's Day (escape room) The Case of the Missing Gold 

To complete the mystery of Larry Leprechaun’s missing pot of gold your students will work in small groups, use their detective notes, and solve language tasks to discover the culprit. You might want to surprise your students with a pot of gold treat after solving the mystery. A snack idea is included! 

Help! Larry Leprechaun wants to have a Saint Patrick’s Day party for all of his friends, but someone stole his pot of gold! Without it he can’t buy party supplies. Will you find out who has his gold?

Focus: homonyms, phonics patterns, main idea and details, digraphs and trigraphs

All About Rainbows

Are you looking for a fun and engaging way to review non-fiction reading strategies with your students? Look no further! This rainbow unit is perfect for reviewing main idea and key details. The unit includes a review of text features, a scavenger hunt, a read aloud questioning guide, a craft, a science and writing activity, and a snack. Your students will love learning about rainbows while completing this fun unit!

Focus: text features, main idea and details, informational writing,

After the Fall and the Science Behind Airplanes

This After the Fall literacy and reading comprehension unit is perfect for your 1st and 2nd grade students. It includes many book extension activities that will help students review story elements, learn about character traits and give evidence from the text to support those traits. They will also review different types of connections before creating a text-to-self cracked egg craft that is perfect for a bulletin board display.

Next, your students will follow directions to create an airplane. After watching videos on flight, they will get the chance to make changes to their airplane to increase the flight distance. A STEM journal is included including ideas, a plan, test flights, and a project reflection.

To conclude this unit your students can rewrite the ending to the story and create their own airplane snack.