Explore the history of Thanksgiving in the United Sates while teaching reading, language arts, and math skills with this historically accurate thematic unit. The unit centers around an informational article written at an 870 Lexile level. The complete article is 28 paragraphs.
The unit is 21 pages long, plus six pages of answer keys. Following is a list of the contents of The Thanksgiving Story thematic unit:
The Thanksgiving Story (informational article), Comprehension Activity, Working with Words,Sentence Scramble, Mayflower Facts and Figures (Math activity), Word search, Plymouth Settlers' Clothing,US Map-the Wampanoag, Wampanoag Clothing (alphabetical order),
Wampanoag Homes & Family Life, Wampanoag Food(Crossword puzzle), and answer keys.
Please look at the product preview to see samples from most of the pages in this unit.
Great for differentiating for my GT kiddos!
November 28, 2011
Perfect for a GT second grade class! Thanks!!!!
November 22, 2010
A great mini-unit for Thanksgiving for the intermediate grades! I plan to use it for both Social Studies and Reading.
November 18, 2007
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