Turkey Surprise Lesson Bundle - Homophones and Visual Sequencing

Need a fun mentor text to use before Thanksgiving. Enjoy a story about helping a friend while teaching about homophones and story sequence. This lesson bundle using Turkey Surprise by Peggy Archer is a great story about helping a friend. The story uses repetitive language, jokes, and silly poems. The illustrations allow young students to build their inference skills. Enjoy learning how Turkey’s friends help him hide from the Pilgrim brothers. Enjoy the surprise ending.

This Bundle focuses on using mentor text to teach:

✨Reading Strategies

☐ Answering questions (Depth of Knowledge levels 1 to 3)

☐ making predictions

☐ analyzing character

☐ cause and effect

☐ identifying theme | message | moral

✨Vocabulary Strategies

☐ Clarify multi-meaning words

☐ Introduce Shades of Meaning

☐ Checking for Understanding

✨Critical Thinking Skills

☐ Analyzing

☐ Evaluating

✨Social and Emotional Learning

☐ There are many types of friends

☐ Finding creative solutions to a problem

☐ Be willing to ask for clarification

☐ growth mindset

Common Core Standards

• RL.K.1 With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
• RL.K.2 With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
• RL.K.3 With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
• L.K.4 Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and  multiple-meaning words and phrases based on kindergarten reading and content.
• L.K.5d Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs describing the same general action (e.g., walk, march, strut, prance) by acting out the meanings.
• RF.K.2a Recognize and produce rhyming words.
• RL.1.1 Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
• RL.1.2 Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
• RL.1.3 Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
• L.1.4 Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 1 reading and content, choosing flexibly from an array of strategies.
• L.1.5d Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs differing in manner (e.g., look, peek, glance, stare, glare, scowl) and adjectives differing in intensity (e.g., large, gigantic) by defining or choosing them or by acting out the meanings.
• RL.2.1 Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
• RL.2.2 Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
• RL.2.3 Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
• L.2.4 Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 2 reading and content, choosing flexibly from an array of strategies.
• L.2.5b Distinguish shades of meaning among closely related verbs (e.g., toss, throw, hurl) and closely related adjectives (e.g., thin, slender, skinny, scrawny).

Preschool DDRP

• ATL-REG 6: Engagement and Persistence
• LLD 4: Reciprocal Communication and Conversations
• LLD 5: Interest in Literacy
• LLD 6: Comprehension of Age-Appropriate Text
• LLD 7: Concepts about Print
• ELD 3: Understanding and Response to English Literacy Activities
• COG 2: Classification

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