Thanksgiving ELA Activities Bundle - Reading Comprehension, Worksheets, More
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This low prep resource is an easy way to keep your students engaged and learning around Thanksgiving. It includes my 4 Thanksgiving Reading & Writing Resources - Save over 30% when you buy the bundle!
This Thanksgiving Reading Activities and Worksheet Bundle includes:
14 No Prep Thanksgiving Activities
This resource contains 14 ready-to-use worksheets to help you celebrate Thanksgiving in the classroom. The no prep activities include:
- an Acrostic Poem
- Find Somebody Who
- a Find the Fib activity
- an A-Z reflection
- a Compare and Contrasting Thanksgiving with a partner activity
- a Short Story Writing Activity
- a Making Words Activity
- a Word Search
- This or That
- a Thanksgiving Word Scavenger Hunt
- Writing a Thank You Note
- a Scribble Story
- a Top 10 Things Your Most Grateful For List
- Interview A Friend
Thanksgiving Reading Task Cards
For each Thanksgiving reading task card, students read a nonfiction, Thanksgiving themed paragraph, and then answer a question about the paragraph. The paragraphs cover a wide variety of topics interesting to upper elementary students, including cranberries, giblets, domestic turkeys vs. wild turkeys, the Thanksgiving parade, Korean Thanksgiving, Black Friday, turkeys gobbling, and more.
This resource includes:
- 20 Thanksgiving themed reading task cards
- An answer sheet
- An answer key
This is a great way for students to build their nonfiction reading comprehension while learning facts about Thanksgiving!
November Team Builder Questions
These 24 November themed questions can be used for morning meetings, writing prompts, team builders, ice breakers, speaking and listening practice, and more!
The questions come in 3 formats - cards, writing paper and Google Slides. This makes it easy to use them as writing prompts for a no prep November writing activity, or as a morning meeting community builder activity.
The questions cover popular November themes like Thanksgiving, Veteran's Day, Día de los Muertos, Black Friday, turkeys, Election Day, and more. There are also other, lesser known November themes included.
Thanksgiving Reading Comprehension and Activities
Students read a one page reading comprehension passage that compares Thanksgiving in Canada to Thanksgiving in America. Then, students complete a variety of reading comprehension activities based on this Thanksgiving reading comprehension passage.
This resource includes:
- a Thanksgiving Reading Comprehension Passage that compares American and Canadian Thanksgiving
- 1 scavenger hunt activity to help students compare and contrast the way the two countries celebrate Thanksgiving
- reading comprehension questions based on the Thanksgiving Reading Comprehension Passage
- Venn Diagrams to have students compare how they spend their Thanksgiving with how the typical American or Canadian spends their Thanksgiving
Answer keys and grading rubrics are also included.
These 4 resources can be used in a variety of ways - as a Thanksgiving reading center, for independent work, for homework, for morning meeting, as a whole class activity, and more, especially in 3rd and 4th grade classrooms.
Many of the activities are geared toward the typical American Thanksgiving, so they might not be suitable for students celebrating a similar holiday in other countries.
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