St. Patrick's Day Printables and Activities for Upper Elementary

St. Patrick's Day Warm-Ups Reading Comprehension and Writing Warm-Ups & More

St. Patrick's Day Lessons

Daily Warm-Ups: Each of the Daily Warm-Up passages are aligned with the Common Core State Standards for ELA and are written for grades 5 to 8 but will also work for high school students as well. They are March and St. Patrick’s Day themed, with leprechauns, shamrocks, four-leaf clovers and a bit of Irish lore.

The topics are perfect for use as Warm-Ups, Bell Ringers, Early Finishers, unit reinforcers, partner or group work and/or lesson starters. They are designed to foster higher order thinking skills and writing across the curriculum. They are social studies, reading and writing themed and ask thought provoking questions to help students become independent thinkers and provide exercise for their brain muscles. The passages are designed to be differentiated, so mix it up. Have students work alone, in pairs or in small groups. Encourage dialogue around the questions. If a passage seems particularly difficult for your students – pair up struggling readers with patient proficient readers and writers. Some of the best thinking happens this way.

This set includes also includes Bulletin Board Letters (2 sets) A-Z, 0-9, and a few punctuation marks. The PDF sets include full size letters and PNG letters.

Letters are sized to fit a letter-size sheet of paper (8.5x11). One set have black outlines and should be printed onto colored paper - whatever color of paper you print on is the color your letter will be. The other set are colored.

Appropriate for grades 4 through 9.

19 Standards-based - reading writing and thinking quick writes and puzzles - are perfect for anytime.

Warm-Ups Instructions page 3

Leprechauns Fact of Opinion page 4

Leprechauns Cloze Read page 5

St. Patrick Comprehension and Context Clues page 7

St. Patrick Facts. Paragraph from Facts page 9

Story Starter Leprechauns page 10

Cryptogram March Riddles page 11

Cryptogram March Riddles 2 page 13

Cryptogram March 3 page 15

Word Maze Leprechauns page 17

Word Maze Spring Flowers page 19

Word Maze Fruit page 21

Word Maze Nouns page 23

About Rainbows and an Acrostic Poem page 25

Shamrocks vs. Four-Leaf Clovers page 26

Compare and Contrast Shamrock vs. Four-Leaf Clovers page 27

Miley Cyrus & Adjectives Because Why Not? page 28

Lucky Leprechaun Metaphor page 29

Leprechaun Simile page 31

Four-Leaf Clover Words Around for Bulletin Board page 33

Rubrics page 35

Clovers All Over Bulletin Board Letters 

Other Products:

Warm-Ups

Set 3: Warm-Ups - Reading and Writing Standards-Based

Set 2: Warm-Ups - Reading and Writing Standards-Based

Set 4: Warm-Ups - Reading and Writing Standards-Based

Set 5: Warm-Ups - Reading and Writing Standards-Based

Growing Bundle of Reading and Writing Daily Warm-Ups

Morning Work

September Morning Work

October Morning Work

November Morning Work

December Morning Work

January Morning Work

February Morning Work

March Morning Work

June Morning Work

July Morning Work

Growing Bundle of Morning Work

Intervention

BUNDLE: Giant Multi-Syllable Word Units VC/CV, VC/V, V/CV, & VCe: INTERVENTION


Intervention: Multi-Syllable Word Unit for Older Students VC/CV - Fluency Plus

Multi-Syllable Word TASK CARDS for Older Students VC/CV

Intervention: Multi-Syllable Word Unit for Older Students V/CV - Fluency Plus

Multi-Syllable Word TASK CARDS for Older Students V/CV

Multi-Syllable Word TASK CARDS for Older Students VC/V

Intervention: Multi-Syllable Word Unit for Older Students VC/V - Fluency Plus


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