Japanese Tanabata Star Festival July 7th Orihime Folktale Tanzaku Literacy

An interesting Japanese July/August 7th Tanabata Matsuri (Star Festival) literacy packet explaining the historical origins of Tanabata from Chinese culture, the folktale of Orihime and Hikoboshi and Tentei, the seven famous paper decorations, festival locations and links to a Tanabata song to sing along to (includes the lyrics). This pack also includes some tanzaku templates with prefilled grammar patterns and blank sets, find a words in Hiragana and Romaji, some word and definition matching activities, crosswords, a short answer quiz and a vocabulary list.

Includes:

• Origins of the Star Festival: Tanabata
• A Tale of Two Lovers: Orihime and Hikoboshi
• The Seven Tanabata Decorations
• 1 X 5 Prefilled Make Your Own Tanzaku with sentence patterns (I want to, I want to become, I want to go, I want to meet)
• 1 X 5 Prefilled Make Your Own Tanzaku (I wish...)
• 1 X 5 Blank Make Your Own Tanzaku
• Famous Tanabata Festivals
• Tanabata Song (link to YouTube and 3 sets of lyrics to follow along)
• 2 X Tanabata Find a Words (Hiragana)
• 2 X Tanabata Find a Words (Romaji)
• 2 X Tanabata Word Matches with Answers (Hiragana keywords and English hints)
• 2 X Tanabata Crosswords with Answers (English hints)
• Tanabata Short Answer Quiz with Answers
• 1 X Tanabata Vocabulary List

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