Memoirs of an Elf Read Aloud - Christmas Activities - Reading Comprehension

These "Memoirs of an Elf" printable or digital interactive read aloud lesson plans and Christmas activities are designed to be taught over multiple lessons. This allows students an opportunity to dive deeper into the text, make connections to the characters and events, and most importantly, fall in love with the story.

Each lesson, provides students a different purpose for revisiting the text, talking about it, and responding to it.

We include rigorous text dependent questions, differentiated graphic organizers, response to text writing activities, and a craftivity.

To teach these lessons you will need:

Memoirs of an Elf by Devin Scillian

This lesson plan pack includes:

• Detailed Lesson Plan with Examples
• Text Dependent Questions
• Sequence of Events Graphic Organizer
• Countdown Sequence Cards
• Santa Graphic Organizer
• Writing in Response to Text Pages
• Selfie Craftivity Instructions and Pattern
• Bulletin Board Title
• Graphic organizers pre-loaded to Google Slides and Seesaw

***Google slides graphic organizers have text boxes for students to type. Some have movable parts.

***Seesaw has many interactive tools to choose from. Text boxes are not pre-loaded on the graphic organizers because students may want to type or draw, which they can easily do with the provided tools in the program.

Download our Scope and Sequence to see we have aligned each of our grade 1-2 read-aloud lessons with the CCSS standards.

If you like this product, then you will LOVE all of our other interactive read-alouds.

To see more of our Read-alouds for First Grade, click here.

To see more of our Read-alouds for Second Grade, click here.

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Do you love reading aloud to your primary students? We do too! It is one of our favorite times of the day. Here’s what our buyers say:

"My kids loved this activity. I will be using it again next year! Thank you!"

"I love the countdown and elf selfies!! My students had so much fun with this!!"

"I absolutely LOVE this book AND this resource! Thanks!"

"Awesome activities to keep students engaged before the holidays! :)"

Visit our blog here to find out more about how to teach the Core one read-aloud at a time and to read more about our close reading day lesson plans.

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