Thanksgiving Activities: Informational Reading Comprehension ESL Gen Ed
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Description
Use this informational text to teach about the history behind Thanksgiving for grades 3-6 and English Language Learners of all ages. The vocabulary, reading, compare and contrast, and grammar activities will engage your students as they interact with this historical event that has shaped American culture.
This unit will easily take you through November. Visit my blog to see student samples and to see how I teach this unit.
*** Important Update: This resource can be printed using the .pdf files or downloaded to your Google Drive. Upon downloading the resource, you will find the google drive links on page 4 of the Thanksgiving Reading and Activities file.
You Get: (.pdf for printing & Google Drive for Distance Learning)
- Teacher's Guide/Daily Curriculum Map
- Two Page Informational Text
- Reader's Response Log for Answering Text Dependent Questions
- “Test Your Knowledge” True/False Informational Activity
- Focus Vocabulary Presentation
- Focus Vocabulary Interactive Graphic Organizer
Focus Vocabulary: settler, crops, harvest, feast, celebrate, gather
- Identify Synonym/Antonym Focus Vocabulary Activity
- Cloze Sentences Using Focus Vocabulary
- Focus Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle
- Using Past Tense Regular and Irregular Verbs Activity
- End of Unit Writing Activity (Differentiated Writing Organizers, Rubric, Student Checklist, Writing Model)
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