The Best Christmas Pageant Ever and The Best School Year Ever BUNDLE with Google

Do your students love reading about The Herdmans? Engage readers as they read The Best Christmas Pageant Ever and the sequel, The Best School Year Ever. These reading activities guide students through each chapter of both novels. There are text dependent comprehension questions, vocabulary words for each chapter, and interactive notebook pages that give students opportunities to color, cut, and paste. Complete answer keys are provided as well as links to Google Slides of the novel studies for online learning. Students will need copies of both books, as copies of the book are NOT included in the download.

Included in the download:

• teacher directions
• Common Core alignment guide for both novels
• link to Google Slides for both novels
• strategy charts for making connections, predicting, and asking questions
• reading responses for each chapter of both novels
• vocabulary words for each chapter of both novels
• interactive notebook pages
• complete answer keys

In The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, students will:

• make predictions
• make connections
• ask questions
• write chapter titles
• read for the theme
• read for the main idea
• answer text-dependent questions
• note details
• determine character traits
• infer
• summarize
• think critically about the story
• find evidence in the text to support thinking

In The Best School Year Ever, students will:

• make predictions
• make connections
• ask questions
• write chapter titles
• read for the theme
• read for the main idea
• answer text-dependent questions
• note details
• draw visualizations
• draw a picture summary
• use story clues to draw conclusions
• support drawn conclusions with story details
• determine character traits
• complete character trait map
• infer
• write chapter summaries
• determine the moral of the story
• think critically about the story
• find evidence in the text to support thinking

Options for the teacher:

This book study is offered as a no-prep printable unit and has also been prepared using Google Slides. The link to the Slides is on the 2nd page of the PDF.

See what teachers are saying about the novel studies!

❤️ "I used this with my class and it was a good mix of writing and short answer." Crystal R.

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❤️ "I love these novel studies. They provide a great review of skills but aren't time consuming. The digital version is easy to use and saves paper." Melissa A.

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