Holiday or Winter Short Story The Greatest Gift -- It's a Wonderful Life
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Engaging activities for before the Winter Break, with little prep! Guides for four short stories (two with full texts); winter poetry (poems included); step-by-step holiday celebrations around the world report; plus lots of holiday and winter decorated, lined papers for these activities or your owPrice $25.00Original Price $31.90Save $6.90
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Engage students before winter break and work on skills with "The Greatest Gift" by Philip Van Doren Stern, the short story that It's a Wonderful Life is based upon. It takes place at Christmas but is less religious than the movie. Virtually no-prep and works for independent close reading or to hold attention for a read-aloud.
What you get:
- A short fill-in with a word bank provides surprising and interesting background information for an introduction.
- A variety of comprehension questions: interpretation, literary terms, personal connection, context clues, and more
- Vocabulary activities
- Short Opinion Essay with instructions
- Movie compare/contrast activitity
- Detailed Answer Keys with Teacher Notes
- Complete text of the public domain story
- List of CCSStandards covered
- Flexible product for a whole class, literature circles/partners, extra credit, a choice on a menu, and more.
What teachers say: "They were engaged the whole time" and " I am planning to teach the story and then show the movie--so this fits my needs exactly! These are the types of questions that I would ask if I made the unit myself!!!"
There are two versions of the text questions. By request, a second version features extra lines to provide more space for answers. It adds four pages but may better meet the needs of some or all of your students. This is found at the very end of the packet, after the list of Common Core State Standards.
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