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Thanksgiving Common Core RL.6.10 resources
READERS' THEATER THANKSGIVING MYSTERY MIDDLE SCHOOL SCRIPT
This humorous Thanksgiving Readers’ Theater brain teaser mystery script will give grades 5-8 students practice in reading, comprehension, critical thinking and writing, while having lots of drama and ELA fun. The Mystery of the Vanishing Turkey whodunnit script will entertain your students and require them to perform inference tasks to solve clues. Perfect for reading or for performances! This 9 page script is intended for 9 readers but the number of readers can easily be contracted or expanded
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5th - 8th
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The Great Turkey Walk, By Kathleen Karr: A PDF & EASEL Novel Study
This is a custom-made, easy-to-use PDF and/or Easel digital packet for students in grades 4-7 who are reading the delightful historical fiction book, The Great Turkey Walk by Kathleen Karr. The student pages are designed as independent work and can be used for an entire class, a small group, or an individual student. It can be downloaded as either a printable or Easel digital product. An Easel digital product can be distributed to students using any device. If you are uncertain about how to us
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5th - 7th
Fall & Thanksgiving Reading Comprehension and Social Emotional Learning Bundle
Combine all the amazing fall activities to one pack! Key Features of Each Lesson in This Unit:Social Story for Secondary Students:Immerse students in the captivating tale of six friends as they master the art of respectful group conversations during Thanksgiving.Reading Comprehension Quiz:Assess students' understanding of the story with a thoughtfully crafted quiz that covers key elements of the narrative.Set of 6 Extended Written Response Questions with Matching Poster (RACES Strategy):Encoura
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5th - 12th
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Ten Things I'm Thankful For - Small Group Reader's Theater
This reader's theater was written for a small group of 4. It was written to be used in November for Thanksgiving. In the script, Susan has to create a list for an assignment in writing. The title is Ten Things I’m Thankful For. They have to be things she can describe and go into detail about as well as say why they are important. Susan put off doing the assignment because she thought it was easy and ran out of time but her friends help her to come up with a list. While they are creating it, they
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3rd - 6th
Thanksgiving Reading Comprehension, Writing, and Social Skills Bundle + Freebies
Thanksgiving Themed Social Skills for Engaging in Group Conversations. Great for Special Education AND General Education students! Embark on a journey with Emma, Liam, Ava, Noah, Sophia, and Ethan as they navigate the art of engaging group conversations during the holiday season. Our product is designed to enhance social skills, reading comprehension, and critical thinking in secondary students through an engaging and heartwarming story. Key Features:Social Story for Secondary Students:Immerse s
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5th - 12th
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Thanksgiving Activities for Middle School - Choice Board
It can be difficult to come up with meaningful Thanksgiving activities for middle school. Try this no prep, fully-linked Thanksgiving choice board! There are 15 Thanksgiving choice activities with directions and links to activity templates. Attach and go, or print if you prefer. This is also perfect for your "fast finishers"Notes and Recommendations:⭐️Everything you need is "all in one" slideshow! Attach to your Google Classroom™. Everything is linked and ready to go; no prep required!⭐️Use
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5th - 8th
Also included in: Thanksgiving Activities for Middle School Language Arts Bundle
"Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen" Worksheet (or Test) with Detailed Answer Key
Teachers will give "thanks" for this review (or test) that will catapult students into a full understanding of this popular short story through the use of relevant questions and grade-level literary terminology (setting, theme, etc.). This versatile printable may be used as an individual, partner, or group activity or as a test, in-class worksheet, or homework assignment. A detailed answer key is included for each.
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5th - 11th
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Thanksgiving Break Reading Challenge - Thanksgiving Break Reading Log Activity
Motivate students to read over Thanksgiving break with a FUN reading challenge! This reading log will help students track their reading while out of school for Thanksgiving break. The reading challenge could even be used as a classroom competition!This is a quick, simple way for students to "gobble up pages" while out of school. Hand it out for a fun, optional challenge to give students credit for reading at home. For the Thanksgiving-break reading challenge, students will color in a feather or
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5th - 10th
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The Thanksgiving Visitor short story Truman Capote introduction, digital vocab
**This powerful Language Arts PREREADING Powerpoint will help your students better comprehend rigorous grade level reading material. It will prepare all students by presenting beautiful photos to teach the very difficult vocabulary found in this challenging text. Also, the lesson presents the historical importance of the story setting, allowing for deeper comprehension and greater appreciation of this complex piece of work. **PURPOSE: This PowerPoint lesson provides digital pre-reading resourc
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6th - 12th
Thanksgiving Social Skills and Reading Comprehension: Having Group Conversations
Great for fall and other holidays!Having Group Conversations: teaching students various skills and strategies for engaging in group conversations!Great for Special Education and General Education Students with Modified Lesson & Activity!Embark on a journey with Emma, Liam, Ava, Noah, Sophia, and Ethan as they navigate the art of engaging group conversations during the holiday season. Our product is designed to enhance social skills, reading comprehension, and critical thinking in secondary s
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5th - 12th
Tad Saves Jack - The Story of the First Presidentially Pardoned Turkey
This Reader's Theater is my favorite November/Thanksgiving script! It was written for a small group of 4 students. The title explains it all. This true story is about one of my favorite Thanksgiving events! In the script, President Lincoln was given a turkey to be eaten for Christmas dinner. Tad Lincoln adopted it as a pet, named him Jack, and taught it to follow him around the White House grounds. The Hosts of the Little Known Historical Facts Show present the story of how the turkey Jack manag
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
Halloween and Thanksgiving ELA WOULD YOU RATHER FRIENDSGIVING SHORT FILMS
Bring the fun to your ELA class this Halloween and Thanksgiving. This bundle accompanies my FREE QUARTER 1 lesson plans, curriculum map, and scope and sequence. DOWNLOAD YOUR COPY HERE INCLUDES❤ Would You Rather Halloween Edition❤ Friendsgiving ❤ Pixar Short Film SALT-Thanksgiving ❤ Would You Rather Halloween Editionet your students moving and laughing in October with this hilarious, spooky Halloween edition of WOULD YOU RATHER? with 21 funny and thought-provoking questions.HOW IT WORKS:Student
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5th - 8th
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Tom Turkey's Thanksgiving Tale - Mission Printable Activity
Looking for a fun but educational activity before Thanksgiving? This is engaging “gallery walk” or “Task Card” activity incorporates reading comprehension of a non-fiction (but funny) text. It is a type of “escape” that ends with a final mystery word that they must unscramble and will leave your xcite to finish the task! Their mission (if they choose to accept it..LOL), is to “hunt” for code words as they read the passages. Simple prep… all you need to do is print the 10 reading passage cards
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5th - 7th
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Twenty Terrific Turkey Facts for Thanksgiving Day - Small Group Reader's Theater
This small group reader's theater was written for 4 students for Thanksgiving. It is intended for fun but also to teach some facts about turkeys. In the script, Tom is collecting as many turkey facts as he can to share while having Thanksgiving dinner. He begins sharing them with his friends only to find that they have some facts about turkeys as well. By the time they are through, they each will know plenty of facts to share with others and so will you! My 3rd graders who are on grade level did
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3rd - 12th
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Too Many Turkeys
This reader's theater was written for a small group of 4 students for Thanksgiving. It is about Thanksgiving dinner. In the script, Bob and Molly have planned to have all the family over for Thanksgiving Dinner. It is supposed to be a potluck meal. Molly did not send a list for people to sign up and everyone has brought a turkey to eat. There are no other dishes. Thanksgiving is not ruined because everyone is thankful to be together and have plenty to eat. When my students performed this our qui
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4th - 6th
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The Story of the Cornucopia or the Horn of Plenty - Small Group Reader's Theater
This small group reader's theater was written for 4 students and is used mainly during November for Thanksgiving but - because of its Greek basis - could be used at any time. It is the story of the FIRST cornucopia. In the script, Sam is told that they will be drawing Cornucopias in class today. He tells James and Sonia that he has no idea what one is. So James and Olivia tell him the story. It begins with Kronos, the father of Zeus, who has decided to eat all his children when they are born so
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5th - 12th
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Small Group Reader's Theaters for Thanksgiving
This is a Thanksgiving pack of small group reader's theaters. There are 6 of them. Each reader's theater is sold singly but you can get all six in this packet and save some money. The scripts are: Black Friday, The Gobble Gobble Ghost, Let's Talk Turkey, The First Presidential Pardoned Turkey, Ten Things I'm Thankful For, and Too Many Turkeys. The Gobble Gobble Ghost was in my Halloween packet but involves a turkey so I put it in here also. The pack gives you 6 for $8. When you buy them individu
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4th - 7th, Adult Education
Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen short story by O. Henry intro & vocabulary study
**This powerful Language Arts PREREADING Powerpoint will help your students better comprehend rigorous grade level reading material. It will prepare all students by presenting beautiful photos to teach the very difficult vocabulary found in this challenging text. Also, the lesson presents the historical importance of the story setting, allowing for deeper comprehension and greater appreciation of this complex piece of work. **PURPOSE: This PowerPoint lesson provides digital pre-reading resource
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5th - 9th
Also included in: 2 THANKSGIVING Short Stories: PDF LINKS INTRO and Vocab Study ppt lesson
That's Not Punny - Jokes for Thanksgiving and Small Group Reader's Theater
This small group reader's theater was written for 3 students for Thanksgiving. It is intended for fun. This script isn’t so much a story as a comic routine. The characters in it tell each other different jokes that they have heard about Thanksgiving. The jokes come from many different sources. In fact, the same jokes were found in many places. The script is meant to be funny and enjoyable for those listening and for those who read it. There is a small writing response piece at the end. I write r
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3rd - 12th
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Becoming Naomi Leon by Pam Munoz Ryan Readers Theater
This script depicts a scene where Naomi's mother disrupts the dynamics of the family with her boyfriend on Thanksgiving day. There are 15 narrator parts and 7 character parts. Readers will be engaged and want to read the entire book.
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Readers Theater for Middle School Coming of Age Bundle
Black Friday Reader's Theater for Small Groups
This reader's theater was written for a small group of 4 students. It is about Black Friday which is the day after Thanksgiving. In the script, Dan and his friends are looking forward to Thanksgiving break but Dan thinks the reason why the Friday after Thanksgiving is called Black Friday because it is unlucky. Janet and Jacky set him straight and explain to Dan and Trevor why it is called Black Friday. Most of the scripts I write are small group reader's theater scripts because the smaller the g
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4th - 7th, Adult Education
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The Girl Who Was Crazy for Candy Corn - Small Group Reader's Theater
This reader's theater was written for a small group of 4 students. It is about the food pyramid as well as candy corn. In the script, Nevaeh loves candy corn. She waits all year so that she can eat them at Halloween and Thanksgiving. This year Nevaeh has decided to eat nothing but candy corn. She is doing this when her friends, Nate and Natalie, notice that she looks tired and sick. They try to talk to her about eating something else but Nevaeh won’t listen. Then Mrs. Whitesides gives Nevaeh a c
6th Grade Thanksgiving Break Independent Reading Assignment
This is a simple, yet rigorous independent reading assignment for your 6th graders to complete over the four-day Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Since building stamina and developing student's reading identities is key to success in 6th grade, I provided students with a task that gives them choice in the texts they read and prompts they respond to, but ensures they are reading, thinking, and writing about reading every day for at least 40 minutes.
The document includes a cover page, student dir
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5th - 8th
Let's Talk Turkey - Small Group Reader's Theater
This reader's theater was written for a small group of 3 students. I created to be used in November for Thanksgiving because my students kept making comments about white and dark meat. We used this script to begin a debate. In the script, Michael is having trouble explaining to his customers what the difference between white and dark turkey meat is. He wants to sound like he knows what he is doing so he asks his friends, Alice and Alex, to explain it to him. Unfortunately, Alex is more confusing
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4th - 6th, Adult Education
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