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Free Thanksgiving literature circles
The Story of Thanksgiving An Emergent Reader
This is a great emergent reader for any early elementary classroom. It tells the story of Thanksgiving in a very kid friendly way!
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A Bundle of 41 Emergent Readers!
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November Bundle
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PreK - 1st
November A Poem Each Week
The FREE November A Poem Each Week has arrived! Poetry is great for a read aloud and introducing and reviewing standards. This month we are looking at four Thanksgiving poems by Jack Prelutsky. Ate Too MuchThanksgiving Day ParadeThe Turkey Shot Out of the OvenThe First Thanksgiving These comprehension questions and activities give students a chance to connect the poems to themselves and the world around them. Students also make connections to healthy choices, graphing weather, and learning the h
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3rd - 5th
Thanksgiving Reader's Theater Five Plump Turkeys
A reader's theater created for first and second grade from the poem Five Plump Turkeys. Students will enjoy reading from this one page script and acting out the roles. This skit is perfect for most almost mid year readers. Parts could be doubled by pairing a low reader with a higher reader. My first graders love to perform reader theaters for their reading buddies and our school's kindergarten classes. It would be great for a parent night too. I hope you enjoy it and please contact me if you
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K - 2nd
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Bear Says Thanks: A FREE Mini-Unit
As a thank you to my followers, customers, and readers, I am offering this free mini-unit for "A Bear Says Thanks" by Karma Wilson and Jane Chapman!
This freebie includes:
-A non-fiction close read on Brown Bears with a 1/2 sheet of comprehension questions
-We both say, "Thanks!": a thankful list activity
-Personal response: How I Say Thanks
-Bear Says Thanks retelling/sequencing cut and paste
-Rhyme Time: 12 pairs of rhyming cards with text from the story and a recording sheet
I hope yo
Grades:
K - 2nd
A Funny Bird - Thanksgiving Poem Mini Book
Please rate me - that's all I ask for this fun Thanksgiving freebie!
This is a poem book I made of one of the Thanksgiving poems we say in class, "A Funny Bird." The poem reads:
A Funny Bird
The turkey is a funny bird.
His head goes wobble wobble.
And all he says is just one word...
Gobble, gobble, gobble!
IN MY CLASSROOM:
After memorizing the poem with hand gestures as a class, my Pre-K students can find success reading individually, using the picture clues and their memory to piece togeth
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PreK - 2nd
Thanksgiving Reader's Theater
Here is a cute little readers theater that I wrote for my 2nd grade class to perform for their parents this Thanksgiving. It all came from those inspiring Eat Mor Chickin Chick a Fila cows. Enjoy!
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
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1st - 3rd
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Molly's Pilgrim (Barbara Cohen) Novel Study / Reading Comprehension FREEBIE
* Follows Common Core Standards *This 17-page booklet-style Novel Study (a total 35 pages including answer key) is designed to follow students throughout the entire book.The questions are based on reading comprehension, strategies and skills. The novel study is designed to be enjoyable and keep the students engaged.Many different types of questions for students to think about and answer before, during, and after finishing each chapter. Types of questions include:Narrative ElementsPredict Connect
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2nd - 4th
Thanksgiving Two Voice Partner Poem
This Thanksgiving poem is mean to be read by two students together. Students love taking turns reading this fun, rhyming, partner poem. This Thanksgiving reading activity is a fun way to practice fluency between partners, with a reading group, or your whole class. Two-voice poems are read aloud by two voices or two groups of voices, and they are an enjoyable way to practice oral fluency or even communication skills in front of a group or class. If your students love reader's theater, partner po
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1st - 5th
Also included in: Partner Poems Bundle
Thanksgiving Writing, Reading Comprehension & Research Projects Freebie
This is a sample from my Thanksgiving Reading Comprehension and Research Projects for Beginners packet that will help you guide your students through a research project on the First Thanksgiving. Reading comprehension will be applied as students write about what they have learned about the first Thanksgiving. This can be done in class or as homework. It can be assigned as group work or independent. Research through reading of informational (non-fiction) text addresses common core Reading Inform
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Grades:
K - 2nd
Turkey Writing Prompts - Freebie
Turkey Writing Prompts - Freebie
Make writing fun with these two different writing prompts about turkeys! The first prompt lets students write their own recipe for cooking a turkey. The second lets students write about how they would hide on Thanksgiving if they were a turkey to avoid being cooked. Both prompts come with space for students to draw a picture and two different kinds of lines to suit the needs of your students!
Contents
•2 writing prompts with primary lines
•2 writing prompts wit
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Grades:
PreK - 2nd
Thanksgiving Writing Prompt Freebie: Grades 2 - 6 Digital Version Included
Enjoy this free Thanksgiving writing prompt! Each page is already lined, ready to write!Digital version included, too! Step by step instructions for saving in Google Drive and using.__________________________________________________________________Looking for the full version?Thanksgiving // Writing Prompts: Grades 2 - 5 // Digital Version Included
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
FREE Thanksgiving Quilt Classroom Community Building Project
This is a fun, engaging resource to utilize around Thanksgiving! It allows students to create their own quilt squares that show an item or items that they are thankful for. Although my students really enjoyed making their own quilt squares, they LOVED hearing about what items their classmates were thankful for. It was so exciting to watch the classroom community continue to grow with each passing presentation!
There is a writing activity, as well as a guided reading resource based on the boo
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3rd - 5th
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Molly's Pilgrim Novel Study Notebook
This notebook is designed to help students enjoy good literature while working on Common Core language arts standards. After a small amount of whole class time each day to discuss the previous day’s reading and go over vocabulary, the reading and notebook work can be done in partners or small groups. Students can all read at at the same time or they can do the assigned reading and follow up questions during a literacy center, as part of the Daily 5, or while you are working with another guided r
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Grades:
2nd - 3rd
Calendar Mysteries NOVEMBER NIGHT - Discussion Cards PRINTABLE & SHAREABLE
Rationale for using Discussion Cards:This strategy is powerful in giving students opportunities to work together in mixed-ability, student-led groups. Lower level students benefit from listening to higher level students respond to questions. Higher level students are challenged to express their thinking in a way that helps lower level students comprehend the material.Discussions are guided by students’ responses to what they have read. This approach provides a way for students to engage in criti
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1st - 3rd
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CRANBERRY THANKSGIVING Comprehension & Text Evidence DIGITAL & PRINTABLE
by Wende and Harry Devlin20 Comprehension Questions and Answer KeyRationale for using Text Evidence and Comprehension packets:This approach provides a way for students to engage in critical thinking and reflection as they respond to what they have read. Citing textual evidence requires students to look back into the text for evidence to support an idea, answer a question or make a claim. This skill combined with comprehension questions on DOK Levels 1, 2, & 3 leads students to think deeply a
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2nd - 4th
Turkey Trouble!
FUN story by Wendi Silvano and Lee Harper that will provide some laughs! This PPT activity focuses on "WH" questions and sequencing. 4 target slides. Enjoy!***The TpT thumbnails are condensed. When downloaded, the text is aligned!***
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1st - 3rd, Staff
Thanksgiving Finger Play Song
This song was written to be a finger play, but you could also print out the turkeys to use as a prop. I like to incorporate number songs into our morning circle-enjoy.
“Five Big Turkeys”
by Heather Asselin
Five big turkeys too fat to fly,
Sat in the barn and started to cry.
One plump turkey had an idea,
“Gobble! Gobble! Gobble!”
He rolled out of there.
(Repeat until no turkeys are left)
In walked the farmer, “My oh my.”
He sat in the barn and started to cry.
“All my turkeys have rolled a
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PreK - 1st
Thanksgiving Poem with 5 Minute Biography
"Over the River and Through the Wood," is the classic Thanksgiving poem-turned-song, written by L. Maria Child in 1844. In addition to the poem, I've included a five minute biography about L. Maria Child to help you sneak in some interesting poetry and expository text into your Thanksgiving language arts lessons. It's also great for distance learning! Lydia Maria Child was an American writer who lived during most of the nineteenth century. Although she is best known as the poet who wrote the Th
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3rd - 5th
It's Thanksgiving, Charlie Brown! Visual Aid for Reader's Theatre Script
This visual aid is to be displayed while the It's Thanksgiving, Charlie Brown Reader's Theatre script is being read by your students.Included in the It's Thanksgiving, Charlie Brown Visual Aid:52 slides with no dialogue.It's Thanksgiving, Charlie Brown! synopsis:It's Thanksgiving Day, and Charlie Brown is depressed. He has just gotten over Halloween, and now he has to contend with Thanksgiving. Sally and Linus try to cheer him up, but it does not help. Charlie Brown goes inside when he hears the
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4th - 10th, Adult Education
Native Americans or Indian Flipchart
This is an introduction to Native Americans. My attempt was to make it as politically correct as possible. There are not many opportunities for students to interact with the board for this lesson. It is designed as a teacher-directed introduction.
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PreK - K
Turkeys on a Farm Slide-Show Presentation
Included in the Turkeys on a Farm Slide-Show Presentation:10 slides about turkeys.I hope you, and your students have a fun time reading and viewing Turkeys on a Farm.Happy Thanksgiving and Excelsior!Mr. Marvel: The King of Reader's Theatre
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K - 3rd
Bear Says Thanks Rhyming Pairs (Thanksgiving Series)
This is a fun color & write the rhyming paris worksheet to go along with "Bear Says Thanks" by Karma Wilson. Students read "Bear Says Thanks" and search for the rhyming pairs. They can color the story picture and write the rhyming pair on the coloring sheet or use the secondary worksheet to record their findings.
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
Thanksgiving Poems and Recitals for Children
This book contains a selection of well-known
traditional Thanksgiving poems, songs and recitals
that children who celebrate Thanksgiving are
familiar with.
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Grades:
1st - 6th
Who Will Carve the Turkey this Thanksgiving?
FUN story by Pallotta and Biedrzycki to use for "Wh" questions, defining vocabulary, problem solving, reasoning, spatial and temporal concepts, & more! The students I have read this book with have loved it...had a lot of laughs!Slides have Why, Where, What, Who, and What happened questions.***The TpT thumbnails are condensed. When downloaded, the text is aligned!***
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1st - 3rd, Staff
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