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
