'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!

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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

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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!

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Is There Room On the Broom?

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Is there room on the broom for me?

Let's read and find out!

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Students love this story and now they  can continue the enjoyment by reading it themselves and interacting with each slide.

Students will read the text and identify the cat, hat and broom.

Students will read the text and identify which animal found the lost item.

Students will read the text and count how many are on the broom.

Students will identify how the friends helped the witch.

Students will click and drag items into the brew that creates the new broom.

Students will click and drag animals into the correct sequential order.

Students will click and drag who found the lost item.

Students will write a wish.

Students will read, recognize vocabulary and have so much fun interacting with each slide.

Is there room on the broom for ME?

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Take an all time favorite story and use it to enhance and embed common core standards into your curriculum.

Room on the Broom 

We will do just that!!

The packet contains:

A Crafty Witch to display

Prediction 

Reader's Theater

Identification Cards for Readers

Labels for each character and setting for retelling

Character Chat

Story Elements

Flip Book

Data Collection...favorite character

Word Work...word search, -oo- book and broom

Story Sequence

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Read and Write with a Scarecrow Theme!

 

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Using a scarecrow theme this resource is filled with activities to support and enrich building comprehension skills..

The books used are:

The Lonely Scarecrow by Tim Preston

Scarecrow's Hat by Ken Brown

Scarecrow by Cynthia Rylant

Scarecrow Boy by Margaret Brown Wise

**I love putting a scarecrow up and creating a reading corner. 

**These books can also be found as read aloud stories online.

The packet contains:

Strategies listed for posting

Graphic Organizers and Activities

The Lonely Scarecrow...recall details, KWL, Author's Purpose

Scarecrow's Hat...Main Idea, Sequencing, Cause and Effect

Scarecrow...Inferences, Summarize, Predict

Scarecrow Boy...Compare and Contrast, Fact and Opinion, Definition (using text)

The packet ends with Making Connections.

Any book may be used.

Text to Self

Text to Text

Text to World

There are also some treats with the October Packet:

Craft

Word Search

Making Words

Mini Book

True/False

Vocabulary for posting.

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And now an interactive Google Slide Resource with a scarecrow theme.

Slide One:  Informational Text

Slide Two:  Writing...A scarecrow is, has, can

Slide Three: Organizer for gather thoughts to write about scarecrows.

Slide Four: Write about the scarecrow.

Slide Five: Build a scarecrow...click and drag pieces.

Slide Six: Poem...Click and drag pieces to answer who, what, where using text in poem.

Slide Seven:  Poem...Click and drag your opinion.

Slide Eight:  Making words with the letters in scarecrow. Click and drag letters.

Slide Nine:  Compound words.  Click and drag to make a compound work.

Slide Ten: Writing about math.  Use the picture to answer number questions.