Folktales are such fun read alouds for the elementary classroom. We love to read the book Fiona’s Luck to students around St. Patrick’s Day. It is such a fun way to teach students about Irish myths and legends. While the story might be a bit longer than your traditional read aloud, it will certainly hold students attention! This read aloud lends itself to teaching a great variety of lessons and skills. - Jodi and the Starts With a Story Team
SUMMARY
Long ago, there was plenty of luck all around Ireland. However, when “the big folk” came, luck stuck to them and the leprechauns started to worry there wouldn’t be enough. The Leprechaun King decides to have the leprechauns collect all the luck and lock it away. This causes huge problems for the people of Ireland as their crops don’t grow and animals can’t provide milk and eggs.
Thankfully, Fiona is a clever character and comes up with a plan to get the luck back from the leprechauns. She tricks everyone into thinking she has luck so the Leprechaun King wants her to visit. They make a deal that if she can prove she has no luck, he will grant her a wish worth all of her luck. When Fiona proves she has no luck, she is able to wish for nothing, which is the worth of her luck. With her quick thinking, Fiona wishes for a hole in the chest of luck, causing the luck to spread throughout the country.
USE THIS BOOK TO TEACH:
Fiona’s Luck is one of our Starts With a Story book companions. Like all of our resources, this book comes with reading comprehension questions, writing prompts, grammar lessons and social emotional learning discussion ideas. Check out some of the topics addressed in the lesson for this book:
- Practice identifying the genre of a book.
- Teach students to identify the message of a story and provide supporting details.Â
- Encourage students to practice procedural or how to writing based on the book.Â
- Integrate poetry by asking students to write poems based on topics from the story.Â
- Review pronouns and action verbs.
- Teach a lesson on compound words and adverbs.
- Discuss the importance of skills like problem solving and positive self-talk.
NO-PREP PRINTABLE ACTIVITIES:
If you are looking for “ready to go” activities for the first day of school, be sure to check out the book companion. With it you’ll receive all of the following resources to align with this specific book:
- comprehension questions
- 30Â writing prompts with themed paper
- vocabulary activities
- word study print & go activities
- ideas for grammar lessons with focus sentence printables
- social emotional learning discussion topics
- graphic organizers to target specific comprehension skills and strategies
This resource is all you will need when it comes to planning your read aloud for the book Fiona’s Luck. Gone are the days when you have to brainstorm discussion questions, look online for student activities, and spend hours gathering resources. Now everything you need is included in this book companion allowing you to make choices on what you want to use with your students.
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ADDITIONAL BOOK SUGGESTIONS
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