St. Patrick's Day ELA Lesson Plans: Ready-to-use St. Patrick's Day activities

These engaging St. Patrick's Day reading and writing activities take the prep out of teaching your students about St. Patrick's Day in the classroom. With ready-to-use lesson plans for guided reading, independent reading, and writing, your students will be excited to learn more about this holiday celebrating Irish customs and tradition. Skills addressed: ✔ Elements of fiction: character, setting, problem & solution ✔ Analyzing the role of setting in the plot ✔ Identifying character traits for main characters ✔ Retelling and/or summarizing fiction and nonfiction text ✔ Reading for information ✔ Identifying facts from a nonfiction text. ✔ Generating a brief expository composition ✔ Making a claim & providing evidence for support Product contents: Instructional guide w/ suggested text, CCSS objectives, materials, prep, & lessons Aligned student mini-book w/ 11 pages of St. Patrick's Day ELA activities Nonfiction passage about St. Patrick's Day