Common Core Magic Tree House Thanksgiving Unit (Fiction and Non-Fiction)

***Completely Updated 10/12/13!! If you've purchased this product, download it again!!!***

Just in time for Thanksgiving, and filled with adorable Pilgrim and Native American graphics by Melon Headz illustrating!

You will love this newly updated 105 page Magic Tree House Thanksgiving ELA unit!

This combination non-fiction and fiction book study unit is aligned with 28 different 2nd and 3rd grade Common Core State Standards for literature, informational text, writing, and language.

This unit corresponds with Magic Tree House #27 Thanksgiving on Thursday AND Magic Tree House Fact Tracker- Pilgrims. It contains many opportunities for your students to write and engage with complex text.

Skills your students will review with this book study are:
1. using text features
2. asking and answering questions (informational text and literature)
3. main idea
4. compare and contrast
5. cause and effect
6. author's purpose
7. sequence
8. opinion writing
9. narrative writing
10. informative writing
11. vocabulary study
12. close reading
13. using text evidence
14. complex text

Included in this unit is a 36 page suggested answer key to make your life easier. =)

Although this unit is written based on the 2nd and 3rd grade CCSS, you could also use this with high level first graders or 4th or 5th graders who need comprehension remediation.


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