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

St. Patrick's Day Close Reading Mystery Inference Activity - Leprechaun's Gold: This St. Patrick's Day close reading 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. 

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

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

➡️ “Where is the Pot of Gold?” Classroom Poster: Put this poster up on your classroom door or somewhere visible so that when students come in, they are hooked into the activity.

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

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

➡️ “Where is the Pot of Gold?” Graphic Organizer: Students can use this to keep track of their findings that support or refute different possible locations for where the pot of gold might be.

➡️ Teacher Answer Key: This is made available in print format and within the presentation slideshow to make reviewing students’ work a breeze.

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

• Start by putting up the poster on your door to build anticipation when students enter the room. When students enter, put them in small groups, so they can work together to try to solve the mystery.
• Use the presentation slides to guide you through each element of the lesson. The slides will help you introduce the story and evidence to each of the groups.
• Hand out all the evidence to students and allow them time to make their predictions and inferences and solve the mystery.
• Once each group has made their final prediction, use the presentation slides to reveal the correct location and go through each of the locations to show what evidence might support or refute the gold being 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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