Gracias The Thanksgiving Turkey by Joy Cowley Lesson Plan and Activities
Picture Book Brain
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Grade Levels
K - 3rd, Homeschool
Subjects
Resource Type
Standards
CCSSRL.K.1
CCSSRL.K.2
CCSSRL.K.3
CCSSRL.K.4
CCSSRL.K.7
Formats Included
- PDF
Pages
24 pages
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A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan bundle for 4 Thanksgiving mentor text picture books Gracias The Thanksgiving Turkey by Joy Cowley, A Turkey For Thanksgiving by Eve Bunting, Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet and Sarah Gives Thanks: How Thanksgiving Became a National HolidPrice $8.00Original Price $10.50Save $2.50
Description
A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the realistic fiction mentor text picture book Gracias The Thanksgiving Turkey by Joy Cowley and Joe Cepeda. A fun multicultural holiday read about friendship and community with a surprise ending!
Lessons and activities focus on:
- Summarizing key details (4 strategies: narrative retell, timeline, graphic organizer, Somebody Wanted But Then So)
- close reading for describing relationships
- describing character traits / characteristics
- comparing and contrasting
- analyzing the main idea and details
The lesson plans include:
- teacher script with strategic stopping points and questions for students to discuss
- printable prompts for student post-reading responses through discussion in writing or reading response logs
- 4-5 day plan
- Discussion questions
- Suggested discussion strategies
- Strategic stopping points for questioning and close reading
- Anchor chart examples
- Sentence stems / frames for oracy and vocabulary development
- Great for bilingual classrooms
- Printable worksheets for written responses in a reading log
How to Use This Resource:
- whole group
- small group
- as a reading intervention
- special education (SPED)
- bilingual or Dual Language / DLI classrooms
- with ELLs for ESL instruction
- Great for K, 1st, 2nd or 3rd grade
Your Kindergarten, first, second or third grade students will love this story!
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Total Pages
24 pages
Answer Key
N/A
Teaching Duration
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Standards
to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).
CCSSRL.K.1
With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
CCSSRL.K.2
With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
CCSSRL.K.3
With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
CCSSRL.K.4
Ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
CCSSRL.K.7
With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts).
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