'Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving!

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This story is a favorite.

It is also a favorite for embedding literacy activities to for students to complete. 

 This Goole Slide resource is interactive!

Listen here.

Slide One:  Story Elements (click and drag)

Slide Two:  Sensory Writing (type)

Slide Three:  Opinion Writing (Click and drag as well as type)

Slide Four:  Character Description...Farmer Mack Nugget

Slide Five:  ABC Order using turkey names

Slide Six:  Story Retell

Slide Seven:  Count tail feathers and match number words (Click and drag)

Slide Eight:  Decorate your turkey

Find it here.

This story by DAV PILKEY is a delightful read aloud for your class.

It is the night before Thanksgiving and what is going on?

The class is on a field trip and guess what they found?

This story is the perfect springboard for teaching comprehension, writing and word work.

The packet contains:

6 Vocabulary Cards for Posting

Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving:

Story Elements

Favorite Part

Character Descriptions

Opinion Writing...Would a turkey make a good pet

Sequence Writing...What happened on the field trip

Narrative...Thanksgiving

ABC Order...Proper Nouns...Turkey names

Making Words with the letters from Thanksgiving

Using 5 senses to recall story details

Writing:

Class book cover

Paragraph organizer

Graphic organizer (Thanksgiving)

Differentiated final write pages 

Two Math Games for your class to enjoy with a partner!