Description

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with these Jamie O’Rourke Book Companions! Jamie O’Rourke and the Pooka and Jamie O’Rourke and the Big Potato by Tomie dePaola are two fun tales about a lazy Irish guy. Both books feature rich vocabulary and depth, model characterization, author’s craft, writing and more.

WHAT’S INCLUDED IN THE JAMIE O’ROURKE BOOK COMPANIONS BUNDLE?

• Schema Builders about Dreams and St. Patrick’s Day
• Vocabulary Organizer for both books
• Characterization about Jamie O’Rourke (using text details to draw conclusions)
• Sequencing Events
• Story Summary (Beginning, Middle, End)
• Question Task Cards and Response form
• Writing in Response to Reading (Adventures of Jamie O’Rourke)
• Schema Builder-St. Patrick’s Day Alphaboxes
• Character Traits (2 pages)
• Story Retelling (2 pages)
• Setting Described (visualizing)
• Author’s Purpose (PIE…2 pages)
• Questioning Organizer
• A Look at Theme

80 PAGES IN ALL (1/2 PDF AND 1/2 GOOGLE SLIDES TM)

MORE ABOUT THE JAMIE O’ROURKE BOOK COMPANIONS BUNDLE:

Both units are set up in a before/during/after format and include both printable AND digital options for one price!. Together, there are over 80 pages total (~40 PDF and ~40 Digital). A preview of the materials included is attached, so be sure to look closely.

WHAT TEACHERS SAID ABOUT MY JAMIE O’ROURKE BOOK COMPANIONS:

• This was great and exactly what I needed! I will be sure to purchase more like this in the future.
• Fun and engaging resource!
• A great resource; thank you for sharing your hard work and creativity with others!
• This packet contains a nice variety a skills to cover with this St. Patty’s Day book. Thank you!
• Great story with fun activities! We even had baked potatoes for snack!
• Great resource to go along with my Tomie dePoala unit.

OTHER RESOURCE LIKE THE JAMIE O’ROURKE BOOK COMPANIONS YOU MIGHT LIKE:

Tomie DePaola is a favorite author of many elementary teachers. I have created resources for many of his books including:

• Strega Nona
• Strega Nona’s Magic Lesson
• Strega Nona’s Harvest
• Strega Nona Meets Her Match
• Strega Nona Her Story
• Bill and Pete
• Bill and Pete Go Down the Nile
• Bill and Pete to the Rescue
• Little Grunt and the Big Egg, and
• The Art Lesson

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