Jamie O'Rourke and the Big Potato Activities

This literacy activity pack is chock-full of activities to develop kids' comprehension and word meaning skills, using the book Jamie O'Rourke and the Big Potato by Tomie DePaola. Jamie O'Rourke (the laziest man in all of Ireland) finds a leprechaun one night, but instead of getting a pot of gold, he gets a giant potato!

This literacy pack includes...

• Anticipation Guide
• Character Map
• Character Hat Organizer
• Shamrock Story Map
• Setting Map
• Storyboard
• Sequencing Events
• Inferring about Character Emotions
• Beginning/Middle/End Folded flipbook
• Context Clues
• If You Catch a Leprechaun: Prepositional Poem instructions & publishing paper
• Extra! Extra! Read All about it!: News article instructions, graphic organizers, and publishing paper
• Comprehension Questions and Answer Key

This product, once purchased, is licensed to be used in one classroom. Additional classrooms must purchase additional licenses.

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