AVID Fall Activities Ultimate Bundle

Get your students in the fall spirit with these AVID-inspired resources! Your students will love practicing their public speaking skills through the Halloween-themed Speed Philosophical Chairs. They will also build their vocabulary and practice using text evidence with the vocabulary activities and editable discussion cards for the story, "The Landlady" by Roald Dahl. Students will build a Costa monster while learning the 3 levels of Costa's Level of Thinking! Last, have your students disguise a turkey through the Disguise a Turkey Career Research Project!

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7 Resources Included in This Bundle:

Halloween

1. Halloween Speed Philosophical Chairs
2. The Landlady Story with Vocabulary Activities
3. The Landlady Story with Discussion Cards
4. Halloween Connect the Dots
5. Build a Costa Monster

Thanksgiving

1. Disguise a Turkey Career Research Project
2. Thanksgiving Speed Philosophical Chairs

1. Halloween Speed Philosophical Chairs: Use this Halloween-themed AVID speed philosophical chairs icebreaker team-building activity to promote debate through dialogue and public speaking in your classroom as well as get students in the Halloween spirit!

What's Included:

• A teach slide for "the why" of speed philosophical chairs
• A slide which includes the rules of engagement for students
• A slide for the steps of this speed philosophical chairs activity
• 20 speed philosophical chairs Halloween themed debate statements
• A 5 minute silent timer embedded in each slide

For example, students will choose to agree or disagree with the statement, "You are never too old to trick-or-treat."

2. The Landlady Story with Vocabulary Activities: These resources can be used during the Halloween season, but can also be used at any other time during the year! These resources include before reading, during reading and after reading vocabulary activities.

What's Included:

Before Reading

• Google Doc with the story, The Landlady by Roald Dahl (includes an essential question, margin for any note-taking, and a place for a summary at the end)
• Editable Vocabulary Awareness Chart in Google Sheets
• PDF Vocabulary Awareness Chart with vocabulary words from The Landlady

During Reading

• Vocabulary and Definitions Chart: students will read the story and write the definitions for the vocabulary in their own words
• Vocabulary and Definitions Chart Key: includes simplified definitions to help you guide students

After Reading

• The Landlady crossword puzzle: students use their definitions and apply their learning by reading the definitions of their vocabulary words and adding them to the crossword puzzle
• The Landlady crossword puzzle Key: includes the answers to the crossword puzzle

3. The Landlady Story with Discussion Cards: Students will read the provided story, The Landlady through the Google doc, andthen they will sit in small groups and take turns pulling a discussion card.

What's Included:

• Google Doc with the story, "The Landlady"
• Google slide with printable talking chips
• 24 Discussion Prompts in color and black & white
• Editable Discussion Prompt Cards in color and black & white

4. Halloween Connect the Dots: Students will draw 2 Halloween-themed cards and try to connect the 2 words by telling a story with them.

What's Included:

• Directions page
• Skills page
• Example story
• 200-word cards
• blank cards to write your own words

5. Build a Costa Monster: This 18 interactive Google Slides presentation first goes over Costa's level of thinking with details and examples for all 3 levels. Then students will follow directions on drawing or creating their own Costa monster while answering leveled questions on the way! After students create their monsters and answer the Costa questions about them, they will write their own questions based on a Halloween scene

What's Included:

• Essential questions slide
• 7 Costa's Level of Thinking teach slides
• 7 direction slides with step-by-step directions on how to create a Costa monster and leveled questions for students to answer about their monsters
• 1 slide with a Halloween scene where students will write their own leveled questions!!

6 Disguise a Turkey Career Research Project: Students will cut out the turkey template or use the digital version. Students disguise their turkey in a career they are interested in researching. Students will answer the 14 career research questions about the career of their choice in their own notes. Students will write a story naming their turkey and describing a day in the life of his/her career as he/she hides from hungry fans.

What is included:

• Turkey Template
• Project Requirements
• Career Research Websites List
• 14 Career Research Questions
• "Don’t eat me, I am NOT a turkey" writing pages

7. Thanksgiving Speed Philosophical Chairs: Use this Thanksgiving-themed AVID speed philosophical chairs icebreaker team-building activity to promote debate through dialogue and public speaking in your classroom as well as get students in the Thanksgivingspirit!

What's Included:

• A teach slide for "the why" of speed philosophical chairs
• A slide which includes the rules of engagement for students
• A slide for the steps of this speed philosophical chairs activity
• 20 speed philosophical chairs Halloween themed debate statements
• A 5 minute silent timer embedded in each slide

For example, students will choose to agree or disagree with the statement, "You should not decorate for Christmas until after Thanksgiving."

*These resources are available for Outschool teachers to purchase without the need for extra licenses.

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