Yo, ho, ho and a classroom of fun! Pirates make a great theme for any time of the school year but did you know that September 19^th is “International Talk Like a Pirate Day? Way back in 1995, John Baur and Mark Summers of Albany, Oregon, came up with this “holiday”. During a raquetball game, one of them twisted an ankle and, in pain, said, “Aaarrr!” The rest of the game they talked like pirates. After eliciting the help of syndicated humor columnist, Dave Barry, in 2002, the “cannon” ball got rolling and the rest is history! “Talk Like a Pirate Day” has become an International “holiday” (although I’m pretty sure the banks don’t close for this one!). Have some fun and use our resources shown below with some common phrases to get you started “talking like a pirate” in your classroom!  Refer to the children as “mateys” or “scurvy dogs” (if they’re being naughty) and call out “AVAST, me hearties” when you want them to pay attention to something!  

Need Some Pirate Beginning Readers?

Your students will enjoy developing their early reading skills by engaging with these fun Pirate-themed NO PREP readers. Each of the 10 readers is a 1-page foldable and comes with an extension printable to extend the learning. The illustrations clearly support the simple patterned text. Just Fold and Go! With 10 different books from which to choose you will have a great variety of reading experiences. Click HERE to see these at our TPT store.

Need More Readers?

As students advance in their reading skills, they will find this set of PIRATE Beginning Readers enjoyable. The books come with several supportive printables for each book such as “Build a Sentence”, Vocabulary Charts, “Interactive printables, etc. There are 5 book “topics” written at 2 different text levels to equal 10 books. These books were purposely written with a variety of High Frequency words so your students will get repeated practice with these words. Again, the illustrations clearly support the text so the non-High Frequency words such as treasure, pirate and chest can be easily read. Click HERE to find these Readers.

Need a Pirate Song (with some Readers too)?

If you want to enjoy teaching with a Pirate theme for more than just one day we have a great song called Pirates, Pirates. This song is easily sung to “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.” It comes with a colorfully illustrated book and a mini-movie that shows the pages of the book turning as we sing the lyrics. Show this on a big screen and your students will be singing along in no time! There are additional Beginning Readers included, interactive printables, a path game, a craftivity, themed writing papers and charts on how to “talk like a pirate”! Click here for Pirates, Pirates!

Here’s a Freebie of Beginning Readers!

Download this free set of Beginning Readers to see an example of our work. There are 3 versions of this book (colored, black and white, and Interactive black and white) and 2 additional interactive printables that practice short vowel words. Click HERE to download this exclusively from our website. There is also a download button at the bottom of this blog post.

Other Pirate Themed Products

We LOVE using Pirates as a theme in our classroom so we have created a LOT of products. Here are just a few of our favorites. Whhaaaattt??? we love them all! Click this link to see ALL our Pirate products at our TPT store! Note: The “1-2, Yo, Ho, A Pirate Crew” has several pages on how to Talk like a Pirate”! Sooooo fun!

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