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That’s What Leprechauns Do Activities and Lesson Plans for 2024

Elementary teachers looking for lesson plans and activities for That’s What Leprechauns Do will find this post helpful. It includes resource recommendations, free teaching ideas, and information about the book. You’ll have everything you need to deliver engaging interactive read aloud lessons based on this story.

With a theme of responsibility, this That’s What Leprechauns Do picture book by Eve Bunting is a favorite in 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade classrooms. It will be a big hit in your classroom too! Learn more about this book below!

Engage Your Students with That’s What Leprechauns Do Lesson Plans & Activities in 3 Easy Steps:

  1. Read a summary of That’s What Leprechauns Do. You can find it in the section below.
  2. Check out the teaching ideas for reading comprehension strategies, grammar topics and social emotional learning skills that can be taught using this children’s book.
  3. Download the book companion to make lesson planning simple with That’s What Leprechauns Do reading comprehension questions, writing prompts, teaching ideas & no-prep extension activities.

THAT'S WHAT LEPRECHAUNS DO 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 cow’s hooves red, tie a man’s 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 a while, 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. 

THAT’S WHAT LEPRECHAUNS DO LESSON PLAN IDEAS

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We found this book was especially good at teaching the topics listed below.

READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS

The text-based That’s What Leprechauns Do reading comprehension questions focus on:

  • summarize / retell
  • visualizing
  • making connections
  • ask and answer questions
  • sequencing

LITERATURE-BASED SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING LESSONS

We found this story to be a great SEL picture book to promote:

  • responsibility

GRAMMAR, VOCABULARY & WORD STUDY

  • possessive nouns
  • nouns
  • prepositions

THAT’S WHAT LEPRECHAUNS DO ACTIVITIES

You’ll receive all of the following resources aligned to the story:

  • comprehension questions
  • 30 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
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BOOK INFO FOR ELEMENTARY TEACHERS

What are the reading levels for That’s What Leprechauns Do?

  • Lexile® Measure: 600 – 625
  • Guided Reading Level: O
  • DRA Level: 30 – 34
  • Accelerated Reader Level (ARC): 3.4

Who is the author? Who is the illustrator?

The book was written by Eve Bunting. It was illustrated by Emily Arnold McCully.

What genre is That’s What Leprechauns Do?

It is a fiction book. You may want to check out our genre activities or read our blog post, How to Teach Genre to Elementary Students.

How many pages are in the book?

The story is 32 pages long.

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