Lunar New Year activities - ANY Zodiac Race Story - Chinese New Year 2024

Welcome Lunar New Year 2024 into your classroom with these specially designed literacy graphic organizers, perfect for reading comprehension in the elementary classroom. 

Find everything you need in one time-saving literacy resource for the Chinese New Year and the Zodiac race.

These Chinese Zodiac worksheets feature a clean and simple design with images of Chinese Zodiac animals.

This resource is ideal for elementary students, offering differentiated activities for various learning needs. 

SKILLS TARGETED 

These Chinese New Year activities include NO-PREP literacy graphic organizers covering different reading comprehension skills:

• Cause and effect in the race
• Character traits of the Zodiac animals
• Read-aloud questions organized chronologically, by animal and by different reading skills
• Inferring and predicting activities
• Main idea and theme with specific examples related to the Chinese Zodiac race
• Making connections, including text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world
• Point of view activities
• Problem and solution activities
• Retelling and sequencing activities with text and visual images, including black and white and colored versions

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Further reinforce these literacy skills with over 100 comprehension questions to use before, during and after reading the book. You can pick the best questions for your student's needs. 

The questions are organized chronologically, by Zodiac animal and by reading skills. Explore picture books for Lunar New Year by visiting this blog post.

The Lunar New Year worksheets are open-ended, so your students can work at their own level, and you can assess their understanding.

DIFFERENTIATION

Each comprehension skill has activities with different difficulty levels, so all you have to do is choose the best pages for your student's needs.

Many of the Chinese Zodiac activities have boxes your students can respond to with text or illustrations, depending on their ability.

OVERVIEW

• This is a supplemental product. You can choose the most relevant pages based on your needs and your student's abilities and understanding.
• The activities can be used with ANY version of the Chinese Zodiac race - just pick the activities that suit your needs.
• Prep is quick and easy. Just print the pages you need, and you are ready to deliver fun and engaging lessons!
• All you need to prepare is the book or story.
• The activities and questions related are opinion-based and open-ended, allowing for easy differentiation.

With these Chinese New Year activities, your students will engage in:

• active and meaningful discussions
• challenging but achievable activities suitable for different abilities
• making connections with their own experiences
• playing cut-and-stick activities and games

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