Inspire young readers to play with language, practice math skills, and devise their own traps with the How to Catch a Leprechaun activities. These low and no-prep activities engage students in English Language Arts skills like parts of speech, story elements, character traits, and grammar. The Math activities make counting, number identification, and algorithms fun! The STEM activity engages students in designing their own leprechaun trap prototype.

As a result of the included activities, students will be able to:

• Design a top hat headband.
• Practice tracing lines and curves.
• Design a new leprechaun character.
• Practice letter formation with letter boxes.
• Sequence the story.
• Illustrate or write about story elements.
• Design a new type of leprechaun trap.
• Write character traits.
• Sort ending punctuation.
• Write sentences with story vocabulary.
• Match rhyming words.
• Sort parts of speech.
• Research St. Patrick’s Day.
• Practice counting within 20.
• Practice addition with and without regrouping.
• Practice multiplication and skip counting.
• Apply Writing Skills with included writing templates and prompts.
• Practice Reading Comprehension with included discussion questions for the beginning, middle, and end of the book.
• Engage in Social Skills with included whole group prompts and activities.
• Develop Fine Motor Skills with included coloring, tracing, cutting, and gluing activities.
• Use digital tools to practice St. Patrick’s Day math.

These activities can be used by the whole group, at stations or centers, or provide student choice. They’re perfect for differentiation and focusing on specific learning goals and skills.

About the Book

After much thought, the How to Catch crew have planned the perfect trap. Surely shamrocks, pots of gold, and rainbows will snag that leprechaun! Is this the time they’ll finally catch the leprechaun? This fun picture books inspires giggles galore as the watch the shenanigans the kids try to trap a leprechaun. Buy the book.

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