Jan Brett Holiday Stories

 

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The entire packet provides activities found in the Common Core Standards under English and Language Arts to provide for a week of Balanced Literacy.

Math Games have been added to each story.

This packet features four of my favorite Jan Brett Holiday Stories:

The Wild Christmas Reindeer

Christmas Trolls

Home for Christmas

Who's Knocking on Christmas Eve?

Writing:

Six graphic organizers on trolls, the hedgehog and reindeer

Seven writing pages for opinion, narrative and informational writing

Student edit page

Teacher rubric for assessment

Guided Reading:

Christmas Trolls-Story recall, setting and character building

Home for Christmas - Sequencing animals and story events

Wild Christmas Reindeer - Cause and effect

Who's Knocking - Problem identification, event recall

One compare and contrast sheet to work with the stories read

Word Work:

Christmas Trolls - Nouns, verbs and adjectives, vocabulary cards, sentence practice using parts of speech

Home for Christmas - Singular and plural, vocabulary cards, sentence practice with singular and plural

Wild Christmas Reindeer - Opposites, vocabulary cards, sentence practice 

Who's Knocking - Contractions, vocabulary cards, sentence practice

Craft: 

Enjoy making a Christmas Gnome

Troll "page topper" for writing Hedgehog.

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These Interactive Google Slides are the perfect curriculum extension after reading each of these delightful stories written by Jan Brett for the holidays.

Home for Christmas

Wild Christmas Reindeer

Christmas Trolls

Slide One:  Summary of Wild Christmas Reindeer...Let's Chat...answer three comprehension questions about the story.

Slide Two:  Informational Text...Reindeer...Use text to collect information...Are   Have   Can

Slide Three:  Click and Drag .... Story sequence using pictures....Reindeer names ABC Order

Slide Four:  Summary of Home for Christmas...Let's Chat...answer comprehension questions about the story.

Slide Five:  Informational Text...Moose...use text to collect information... Is   Has    Can

Slide Six:  Click and Drag...Sequence animals in the order Rollo met them...Sequence events from the story.

Slide Seven:  Summary of Christmas Trolls...Let's Chat...answer comprehension questions about the story.

Slide Eight:  Informational Text...Hedgehog...Using text answer questions...Is    Has     Can

Slide Nine:  Click and Drag...Story Elements....Sound Sort

Each of these stories can be found as read alouds on line.

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We  bundled up the Interactive Google Slides and the Paper Pencil Resource to create the ideal classroom TEAM at a savings.