Olive the Other Reindeer Christmas Holiday Book Companion Activities

This packet is filled with literature connections to the story Olive, the Other Reindeer. Students will have a variety of activities to complete or differentiate for your class. There are writing choices, math games and a fun reindeer headband craft and an olive dog craft. There are colorful anchor charts to help teach problem and solution, characters, setting, main idea and details, and character analysis. I love to use this story for our last day before break. They have a wonderful DVD out for the story and it is one that not many children have seen. I hope you enjoy all the fun connections you can make with this book!

WHAT'S INCLUDED:

Writing:

• Letter from Olive to Santa
• Extra, Extra…
• Recall Web
• Retell Prewriting &writing
• Opinion Prewriting & Writing

Math:

• Sum of 2 numbers Bingo
• Up & Back Game
• Tally Graph
• Odd and Even

Word Work Activities:

• ABC Order
• Word Search
• Unscramble
• Syllables
• Making Words

Reading Strategies:

• Venn Diagram Dog vs. Reindeer cut and paste
• Features of Fiction
• Predicting
• Sequencing -6 cards cut and paste
• Character Analysis
• Character Feelings
• Main Idea & Details
• Problem/Solution
• Cause/Effect
• Questioning
• Inferring
• Check for Understanding
• Making Connections
• Retelling Beginning, Middle, and End

Reindeer Antler Headband Craft and Writing

Olive Craft

Letters 4 per page "Olive the Other Reindeer"

Colorful Posters

• 6 questions on a ring
• Main idea
• Details/sequencing cards words only
• We predict
• Characters
• Setting
• Sees, does, thinks, feels with 4+ matching cards for each one
• Problem and solution 3 examples

This is part of a bundle. It is a combination of four different individual stories. By buying the bundle, you will get a huge discount.

Each unit is packed with several choices of reading comprehension strategies, writing ideas, some math games, and a craft. To see more of each one, click on the links below.

HOLIDAY FAVORITES BUNDLE.

This is part of a complete BUNDLE available to purchase. If you like this product, you may also like the following:

If you Take a Mouse to the Movies.

Olive the Other Reindeer.

Bear Stays Up for Christmas.

Mooseltoe.

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