The Leprechaun Trap
Adventure (fiction) 360 words, Level K (Grade 2), Lexile 480L
What makes a scientific experiment a success? In The Leprechaun Trap, Olivia builds a trap for school. She gets a C+ but keeps conducting experiments, in hopes of catching a leprechaun. Will her experiments prove successful? This story provides readers with a fun lesson on the importance of perseverance. This book can also be used to teach students how to make inferences and draw conclusions as well as how to connect to prior knowledge and use past-tense verbs.