These Engaging St. Patrick’s Day ELA Activities are standards-aligned. St. Patrick’s Day falls right in the season of test prep for the BIG tests at the end of the year. However, that does not mean you cannot enjoy the day with some fun, standards-driven activities. These Engaging St. Patrick’s Day ELA Activities will also have students showing their mastery levels while forgetting they are even working.
With these Engaging St. Patrick’s Day ELA Activities, you can focus more on watching for mastery levels than reigning in students to complete their assignments. They will want to work on these!
- St. Patrick’s Day READING COMPREHENSION Digital Escape Room
This activity is perfect in a traditional school setting or virtually. Therefore, it is ideal for any type of classroom environment. You can choose to have students compete in groups or independently. There are many ways to use this!
There are a total of 5 activities in this Escape Room. It includes 3 reading comprehension activities and 2 puzzles. The students will work on chronological order, plot structure, and reading comprehension in this activity.
- St. Patrick’s Day FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE Digital Escape Room
This activity is great in a traditional school setting or virtually. Therefore, it is ideal for any type of classroom environment. You can choose to have students compete in groups or independently. The options for use of it vary.
There are a total of 5 activities in this Escape Room. It includes 3 figurative language activities and 2 puzzles. - St. Patrick’s Day FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE Color-by-Number Activity
This print-and-go activity is perfect for figurative language review with the students. It will have them decide which figurative language is being used with each sentence example. First, students will label the figurative language. Then the students will get to color the picture based on their answers.
There are a total of 60 questions on Figurative Language. It also includes a cheat sheet for the students to use when answering the questions. This activity set is the perfect classroom activity. It can also be used as a task for your early finishers.
It includes: Simile, Metaphor, Alliteration, Personification, Onomatopoeia, and Hyperbole
I hope these engaging St. Patrick’s Day ELA activities help you plan your lessons for the week of March 17.
As always, please reach out to me with any questions or anything you need.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! I hope you and your students have a fun day full of green and four-leaf clovers! 💚
With love,
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