Lunar New Year Close Reading Passages 2024 Chinese New Years Around the World
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Lunar Chinese New Year and New Year's Day 2024 made simple! These reading comprehension activities and creative activity projects are perfect to teach your students about how the New Year is celebrated around the world! This all-in-one, print-and-go set is just what you need this January to compare and contrast different New Year celebrations!
These Lunar New Year and New Year reading and writing activities are age-appropriate with informational reading passages that will have your students comparing and contrasting these holidays and critically thinking about their origins, similarities, and differences.
Nonfiction articles are perfect to help your students practice close reading strategies, too. Also included are writing prompts, shape poetry, and meaningful reader reflection activities. Shape poems and mini-posters make a great student-centered New Year bulletin board. (Please see the preview.)
Short on time to teach about New Year's and Lunar New Year this year? Complete activities in group settings and encourage meaningful discourse in a short amount of time!
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This set includes both print and digital versions.
CONTENTS:
✓Link for Google Slide use and digital directions
✓Teacher Suggestions and Book List
✓Pre-reading Holiday Question Organizer
✓KWL Organizer
2 Nonfiction Articles & Close Reading Activities:
- The Lunar New Year
- Celebrating the New Year
✓Visualizing the Lunar New Year
✓Caption This Photo Writing
✓New Year Celebrations Venn Diagram
✓How I Celebrate: Student Tradition
✓Optional Group Project with Note Taking Page
✓Holiday Cloze Activity (with answer keys)
✓Acrostic Poem
✓Two Shape Poem Activities
✓Lunar New Year and New Year Student Display Posters
✓Holidays 3*2*1
✓My Resolution Writing Activity
✓Writing Activities in Different Genres:
Prompt and Graphic Organizers for:
- Opinion Writing
- Expository Writing
- Narrative Writing
✓New Year Word Search and Answer Key
✓Math Activities and Answer Keys
Teacher Approved!
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"My students were very engaged in the article and loved writing about the Caption This. It also led to a fantastic discussion about how we all celebrate the New Year in unique ways! Thank you so much!"
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"We had a compare and contrast unit and this really helped the students. The texts were easy for the students to read and the worksheets supported their writing. Well done!"
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"Thank you for creating reading passages that kept my class engaged. I can’t wait to use it again next year using more of the pieces leading up to the Lunar New Year."
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