How to Catch a Leprechaun activities and lesson plan ideas

Our How to Catch a Leprechaun Activities are now digital for distance learning with editable teaching slides and worksheets based on Adam Wallace'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 ☐ point of view ☐ analyzing illustrations ☐ making connections ☐ identify the main idea ☐ rhyme, rhythm and repetition   ◼️ SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING TOPICS ☐ teasing   ◼️ GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE CONCEPTS ☐ nouns ☐ adjectives ☐ homophones   SUMMARY OF THE MENTOR TEXT:  It is almost St. Patrick’s day and a leprechaun is out and about at night. He visits many different homes where children have designed traps in hope of catching a leprechaun. At each house he visits, the leprechaun is able to get away! None of the traps are good enough to catch him. During his visit to some of the houses, the leprechaun takes tim