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Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa Common Core RI.4.5 resources
Holidays Around the World | Differentiated Reading Passages | Print & Digital
These holidays around the world close reading passages and comprehension questions help students dig deeper into informational reading . There are ten nonfiction reading passages based on ten cultures/nations' holiday celebrations. Since we all have students reading on many different reading levels, each passage is written on three different reading levels. There are also three sets of questions for each set of holidays around the world passages. The first set of questions are text dependent qu
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Holidays Around the World Bundle | Print and Digital
Christmas Reading Passages with Text Structure Practice + Graphic Organizers
Looking for a Christmas activity that is also academic and rigorous? Use these reading passages about Christmas and practice the ELA standard of identifying text structure with this easy-to-use activity. (Perfect for before Winter Break!) Students read 5 nonfiction passages related to Christmas and determine the text structure. Use the worksheets and just print and go, or use the Google Slides™ version. These passages help students understand how text is set up differently based on text structur
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3rd - 5th
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Holidays Around the World | Christmas Around the World | Print and Digital
Looking for a hands-on way to teach about holidays around the world? This cross-curricular hands-on unit will keep your students engaged during the holiday season. Reading passages are provided for each country in the unit to allow for use in your Reading/LA block along with Social Studies. This is perfect to use in a single classroom and also works well with students traveling to multiple classrooms. Note: This now contains a link on page 2 of the PDF that allows for use in Google Classroom. Th
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Holidays Around the World / Christmas Around the World BUNDLE
Christmas Around the World Passages - Print & Interactive Digital
With this resource, students will learn how seven children from around the world celebrate Christmas in different ways through reading engaging passages on differentiated reading levels. Students can respond to short-answer or multiple-choice questions after reading. The questions are aligned to informational text reading standards. Teaching notes and lesson plans are included. This resource can be printed or shared digitally. What is included?+ Printable and interactive digital versions7 readin
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3rd - 8th
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Also included in: Christmas & Winter Holiday Differentiated Passages Bundle
December Passages Close Reading Leveled Passages w/ CCSS Text Based Questions
5 December Themed Leveled Passages with + 7 Activities for Each Passage>> December Freedoms >> All About Penguins >> History of Gingerbread>> Reindeer Crossing>> All About Snowflakes*** 3 pages of questions per passage (4-6 questions on each page) * 1st Question Page: Key Ideas and Details (Addresses RI.1, RI.2, RI.3) * 2nd Question Page: Craft and Structure (Addresses RI.4, RI.5, RI.6) * 3rd Question Page: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas (Addresses RI
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1st - 5th
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The Legend of the Poinsettia FULL Day of Lesson Plans for Upper Elementary
This product is everything the busy classroom has been looking for! You'll receive a FULL day of lesson plans based on The Legend of the Poinsettia by Tomie dePaola (a lesson for reading, writing, math, science, social studies, plus a hallway display!).Update November 2020: This product can now be used digitally with Google Slides™! You must have a Google Classroom™ account to use this feature. You will download a PDF with links and directions for assigning this to your class.How does this work?
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3rd - 5th
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Holidays Around the World Bundle | Print and Digital
Save by purchasing both Holidays Around the World resources! Includes print and digital formats.The resource includes my Holidays Around the World Interactive Notebook and my Holidays Around the World Close Reading resources!What's Included in the interactive notebook?A picture of a completed interactive notebook entry for each country/culture.A color and black and white version of each activity to save on colored ink.Two interactive notebook templates for each country. What's Included in the c
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3rd - 5th
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Christmas Reading Passages Holiday Tradition Ugly Sweater Candy Cane Activities
Christmas Reading Comprehension 3rd, 4th, 5th grade made simple! Looking to engage students this Christmas and December with comprehension activities? The Nutcracker, Ugly Sweater, Candy Canes, and the Rockefeller Tree, are Christmas traditions students will learn about while hitting important reading standards with these high-interest and high-engagement activities that your students will LOVE!Students will learn and think critically about four traditions that have become associated with the ho
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Christmas Reading Comprehension Passages Writing Activities Math Games
Reindeer Informational Writing and Reading Passages - Christmas Theme
The holiday season is full of fun, but you still need to get some productive work done! Use this no prep Reindeer writing activity with your class to stay in the Christmas spirit! Students can practice main idea and theme while learning about reindeer in both a fiction and nonfiction passage.Questions and writing prompt + rubric were created based on the verbiage of the released items of the AIR test. ⭐CLICK HERE TO SAVE 20% WITH THE YEAR-ROUND TEST PREP BUNDLE!⭐Now with a Google Slides version
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Winter Celebrations Around the World: Passages - Distance Learning Compatible
With this resource, students will learn all about winter celebrations around the world through reading engaging passages on differentiated reading levels. Students can respond to short-answer questions after reading. The questions are aligned to informational text reading standards. Teaching notes and lesson plans are included. This resource can be printed or shared digitally. What is included?+ Printable and interactive digital versions5 reading passages – (See topics below.)5 differentiated r
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3rd - 8th
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Also included in: Christmas & Winter Holiday Differentiated Passages Bundle
Christmas & Winter Holiday Differentiated Passages Bundle
Christmas & Winter Holiday Differentiated Passages BundlePrintable + Digital Paperless Versions IncludedWith this resource, students will learn about Christmas and winter holiday celebrations around the world by reading engaging passages on differentiated reading levels. There are 10 original reading passages included on 5 reading levels covering grades 3-8, totaling 50 passages. Questions (as well as answer keys) aligned to Common Core State Standards are included for each passage. Students
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Winter Holidays & Festivals Around the World - Close Reads
Are your students curious about what kinds of holidays the rest of the world celebrates? This download contains 15 close reading passages for winter holidays and festivals - both old and new - around the world, including the very first winter solstice celebration!
These informational passages each contain two pages of text-based questions that are rigorous and include higher - level questions. They are perfect for literature circles, homework, guided reading groups, or for independent practi
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4th - 6th
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Santa's Sleigh STEM Challenge | Google Classroom
Sleigh STEM Challenge will engage all your students during the holiday season or during the winter season. Digital Google Slides are great for remote learning or in your elementary classroom. Students research, plan, design, and engineer a sleigh that can carry toy presents. This STEM Challenge connects great with the book The 12 Sleighs of Christmas by Sherri Duskey Rinker. Your students will love going through the design process as they cover the Next Generation Science 3-5-ETS1-1 & 2.⭐Go
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3rd - 5th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: STEM December Bundle | Christmas STEM Activities
Christmas Reading Comprehension Passages with December Passages and Questions
This DECEMBER Reading Passage Bundle comes will FOUR close reading passages holiday season. These reading passages are the perfect way to keep your students engaged in the weeks leading up to Christmas break. This December, your students will love using these fun passages for the middle grades to learn what they never knew about the history of the candy cane, the attack on Pearl Harbor, the amazing reindeer, and the Christmas pickle tradition! In addition to the differentiated Close Reading Pa
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4th - 7th
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Christmas Cause and Effect Task Cards
What's your preference? Sort, Body Sort, Task Cards, Read the Room--all rolled into one. 24 cards total--12 causes,12 effects. I have designed this product to be used as a body sort where students are all given a card and they are to find their match—one cause, one effect. I also put in two free cards (in case you have a class of more than 24 children). This can also be used as an open sort, or there are header cards for a closed sort. **Suggestion: If you are using as an open or closed sort, I
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2nd - 6th
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Snowman Cause and Effect Activities
Want to up your game on teaching cause and effect? Use these fun snowman themed cause and effect activities this winter to help your students gain a deeper understanding of text structure. This resource is packed full of engaging content-based cause and effect lessons, activities, crafts, and printables. These upper elementary cause and effect text structure worksheets and activities are perfect for whole group, centers, small group, assessments, homework, and more. Included in this Resource:• C
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3rd - 6th
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December Passages: Science - Distance Learning Compatible
With this resource, students will learn random and fascinating facts about the month of December through reading engaging passages on differentiated reading levels. Students can respond to short-answer questions after reading. The questions are aligned to informational text reading standards. Teaching notes and lesson plans are included. This resource can be printed or shared digitally. What is included?+ Printable and interactive digital versions4 reading passages – (See topics below.)5 differe
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3rd - 8th
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Also included in: High-Interest Science Differentiated Passages for the Year Bundle
Teaching Reading with Animated Short Films Christmas | Digital + Printable
If you are looking to add some high interest activities to your lessons this Christmas season, try using animated shorts to teach reading skills. The unit includes 43 activities to use with 43 Christmas themed videos. All short films will be added to a webpage on Book Units Teacher for easy access. The link to this webpage will be included in the purchased product. This product includes both digital activities for Google Slides plus printables.Free Samples are found in the preview.This resource
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Teaching Reading with Animated Short Films Digital + Printable Bundle
Winter Holidays Text Structure Reading Worksheets in English & Spanish
This packet is included in both ENGLISH AND SPANISH! Perfect for bilingual classrooms or even higher level Spanish classes to learn about Winter Holidays (Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa) while identifying different text structures. Perfecto para las clases bilingües para practicar las estructuras del texto del tema de las festividades de invierno. These worksheets include information about Winter Holidays written in different text structures. Students will read each paragraph and identify the
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3rd - 5th
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Christmas Text Structure Reading Centers - Compare Contrast, Cause/Effect!!
Christmas Text Structure Centers are all you need to make your reading lessons purposeful during the holiday season! It is jam packed with fun learning!
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** 5 Christmas Around the World Passage cards and recording sheet. This would be great as an independent learning center or gallery walk.
** 3 Compare and Contrast Passages and Venn diagram recording form.
**Compare and contrast, Cause and effect posters
**12 Cause and Effect Sort Cards and sorting mat
** Cause and Effect Fan and
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2nd - 5th
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Christmas Reading Comprehension Task Cards
Students will learn about Christmas Around the World with these 10 Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Task Cards! Included in this resource are:10 Nonfiction Reading Passages, each with information about Christmas in a different country. 5 Questions per task cardTotal of 50 QuestionsStudents will read about Christmas traditions, customs, and celebrations in Italy, Germany, Canada, South Africa, New Zealand, China, Spain, Brazil, Jamaica, and China. Each task card contains a set of 5 text-dependent
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5th - 8th
Winter Holidays Research Bundle Unit: Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah & Las Posadas
Winter Holidays:The History of Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah and Las Posadas. This holiday season, use informational text and research the history of holidays, their traditions and symbols. 4 units are bundled together, which create an impressive interactive pocketbook portfolio full of student work! It jam-packed with activities that teach students about these four holidays. Each unit is listed individually if you only need one or ***SAVE 20% OFF EACH UNIT BY PURCHASING THE MEGA BUNDLE!*** Each
Grades:
2nd - 4th
Teaching Reading with Animated Short Films Christmas | Printable Version
If you are looking to add some high interest activities to your lessons this Christmas season, try using animated shorts to teach reading skills. The unit includes 43 activities to use with 43 Christmas themed videos. All short films will be added to a webpage on Book Units Teacher for easy access. The link to this webpage will be included in the purchased product.Free Samples are found in the preview.This resource contains graphic organizers covering the following Common Core skills.LiteratureR
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4th - 6th
Christmas Pickle Differentiated Close Reading Passage
The Christmas Pickle Close Reading passage is the perfect way to keep your students engaged this holiday season. This December, your students will love using this fun passage for the middle grades to learn what they never knew about the history behind this silly tradition.Check out the PREVIEW to see what all is included in this differentiated close reading pack! The passage included is provided in THREE differentiated reading ranges for upper elementary and middle school. To ensure quick, eas
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4th - 7th
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