St. Patrick's Day Close Reading Mystery Digital Activity - Leprechaun's Gold

St. Patrick's Day Close Reading Mystery Digital Activity - Leprechaun's Gold: This St. Patrick's Day close reading digital inference mystery is a fun way to engage your students and challenge them to look for text evidence, infer information, and read more closely. The resource includes everything you need to facilitate the St. Patrick's Day activity in your classroom.

The Fortune Hunters are a band of treasure hunters in Ireland who are determined to solve the mystery of the leprechaun's missing pot of gold. When the group's leader, Saoirse Murphy, finds a perfectly preserved gold coin in Ireland, she knows they are well on their way to discovering something truly magical. Your students need to help determine where the gold is hidden.

This is a Google-compatible activity, and students complete all the work on the computer. This works well with distance learning, 1:1 classrooms, remote teaching, Google Classroom, or for online education. 

Included In This Digital St. Patrick's Day Close Reading Activity:

➡️ Google Slides Presentation: This 15-slide Google Slides presentation guides the mystery with the backstory, evidence, location reveal, and detailed explanations of the evidence.

➡️ Original Narrative Backstory: Use this short story to set up and initiate the mystery, with clues hidden within the text!

➡️ A Variety of Digital Clues and Evidence: Included are a variety of leprechaun myths and information slides that require students to close read and use their inference skills to find clues and evidence.

➡️ “Where is the Pot of Gold?” Digital Graphic Organizer: Students can use this to keep track of their findings that support or refute different locations in the mystery.

➡️ Teacher Answer Key: Use the slideshow presentation to easily review the answer to the mystery with students with detailed information.

How The Digital St.Patrick's Day Day Close Reading Activity Works:

• When students enter, put them in pairs or small groups, so they can work together to try to solve the mystery.
• Use the Google Slides to guide you through each element of the activity. The slides will help you introduce the story and evidence to each of the groups.
• Share the digital files with students that include the evidence students must examine. Allow them time to make their predictions and inferences and solve the mystery.
• Once each group has made their final prediction, use the Google slides to reveal the location of the gold and go through each of the other locations to explain why the gold couldn't be there.

What Teachers Are Saying About This St. Patrick's Day Close Reading Activity:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ My students loved this activity! They did in on St. Patrick's Day and it worked out well that it aligned so well with our unit. Will definitely be using this for years to come.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I started the unit by saying we were sitting on the rug for a brief story-time. My 6th graders loved this! They worked in small groups to support/refute each reading piece. I'll be penciling this in to repeat next year.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I love using these inferencing activities!! My students have a lot of fun with them and they are always engaged. They don't even realize they are doing work. My students are very competitive so they also like the mystery of it.

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