We love a holiday read aloud that also teaches important social skills and academic concepts. Eve Bunting’s book, That’s What Leprechauns Do, is perfect for St. Patrick’s Day. This book will teach students the importance of responsibility while engaging them in a fun story about three mischievous leprechauns. This book lends itself to many different reading comprehension, writing, grammar and social emotional learning lessons. - Jodi and the Starts With a Story Team
SUMMARY
Three leprechauns, Art, Boo and Col, notice that rain clouds are making their way across the sky. They have an important leprechaun duty to complete so they begin to pack up their things and head out. While they agree that they don’t engage in mischief along they way, they find themselves causing some trouble. They paint a cows hooves red, tie a man pants together, and put a tennis ball inside a hens nest.
As the rainbow makes its way across the sky, the leprechauns realize they must make it to the end of the rainbow before it’s too late. When they get there the three leprechauns dig up their pot of gold and place it at the end of the rainbow. Although they wait for awhile, by the time the sky clears no one has come to find the pot of gold. Art, Boo and Col put away the pot and head out to find more mischief.
USE THIS BOOK TO TEACH:
Here are some different topics our lessons and activities for That’s What Leprechauns Do include. There are many other skills covered in our resource as well!
- Ask students to discuss their personal connections to the story.
- Encourage students to ask questions throughout the reading and discuss their findings.Â
- Have students expand on their connections through narrative writing.
- Integrate book reviews by asking students to write summaries of the story.
- Teach a lesson on possessive nouns.
- Review nouns and prepositions.
- Discuss the importance of responsibility.
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
We know that students are going to love reading the book That’s What Leprechauns Do. Thanks to these activities and worksheets teachers can teach engaging and comprehensive read alouds. There are so many choices for teachers to make regarding the lessons they teach.
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ADDITIONAL BOOK SUGGESTIONS
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