Thanksgiving Day Activities - Writing - Close Reading Comprehension Passages
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Description
DIGITAL & PRINTABLE OPTION - Thanksgiving Unit integrated with the ELA skills of text based informational writing, close reading, summarizing and inferring. The activities are rigorous, but yet engaging. The teacher will love the Thanksgiving reading comprehension tasks used and the students will enjoy the fun activities. It is a win-win unit.
Unit that includes the following skills:
• Close reading with annotation codes and comments along with a rubric
• Predicting
• Inferring
• Summarizing
• Use evidence from text to support assignment
• Prewriting
• Informative Writing
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Purpose of Unit
We created this First Thanksgiving unit because teachers want to teach Thanksgiving in the upper elementary but time is so limited. With this unit teachers can meet the demands of CCSS and have fun with teaching about this holiday and the Pilgrim's history. A lot of Thanksgiving material is geared towards the younger grades with crafts, but this is full of rigor and higher-order thinking skills that the teacher will not feel like he/she has lost any valuable teaching time. This unit integrates literacy skills with social studies. It can be used for at least 5 days of instruction and has lesson plans ready to go!
6 different lessons which include:
• Enduring Understandings
• Essential Questions
• Skills/Learning Goals
• Formative Assessments
• YouTube links about the Pilgrims, Mayflower Compact, and The First Thanksgiving
Printouts included in the unit
• 3 non-fiction Thanksgiving passages:
- Early History of Pilgrims First Thanksgiving
- Mayflower Compact
- First Thanksgiving and Squanto
• Annotation codes and rubric
• Anticipation guide
• 3-2-1 Reading Strategy printout
• QUAD Reading Strategy printout
• 3 Ring Venn Diagram graphic organizer
• Timeline with arts integration
• Prewriting graphic organizer for informational writing
• Themed journal paper to write essay on
• Informational Writing Rubric
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