New Year's Picture Book Activity Sheet BUNDLE

This is a Bundle of resources that you can use with the following picture books for New Year's: Squirrel's New Year's Resolution, Shante Keys and the New Year's Peas, and The Night Before New Year's.

Product 1: Here are some activity sheets to print and use after you've read Squirrel's New Year's Resolution, by Pat Miller, to your students.

1. Comprehension Sheet - This sheet asks students to draw and write about their favorite part, list five characters, two settings, and write their own New Year's Resolution.

2. Five writing pages. Students can choose the one they wish to write their New Year's Resolution on. There is room to draw a picture of them following through on their resolution.

3. My New Year activity page allows students to brainstorm things they want to do, read, and learn in the New Year. After they brainstorm, there is a place for them to formulate their New Year's Resolution.

4. Word-Making Activity standalone reproducible using the word "resolution."

5. Word-Making Center "I Can" sign, a second reproducible, and letters to print on cardstock and cut out for the word "resolution."

Product 2: Here is a comprehension sheet and story map activity to print and use after you've read Shante Keys and the New Year's Peas, by Gail Piernas-Davenport, to your students.

1. Comprehension Sheet - This sheet asks students to tell the problem and solution to the story, write 6 words that rhyme with "peas", define "tradition", and write their resolution for the New Year.

2. Answer Key to Comprehension Sheet is included.

3. Story Map - Students use words and/or pictures to fill in the characters, setting, beginning, middle, end, and moral of the story.

Product 3: Here is a comprehension sheet, writing activities and a story map reproducible to print and use after you've read The Night Before New Year's, by Natasha Wing, to your students.

1. Comprehension Sheet - This sheet asks students questions about the story, to write 6 words that rhyme with "night", define "resolution", and write their resolution for the New Year.

2. Answer Key to Comprehension Sheet is included.

3. Story Map - Students use words and/or pictures to fill in the characters, setting, problem and solution of the story.

4. Writing Activity #1 - "My Favorite Game to Play" Students identify their favorite game, illustrate themselves playing it and explain why it is their favorite.

5. Writing Activity #2 - "My Favorite Tradition" Students identify their favorite tradition. They will write about it and illustrate it.

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