Lunar New Year Reading and Writing Activities

Use these reading and writing lessons to check for reading comprehension, teach note-taking and comparison while exploring topics including Chinese New Year (Spring Festival), Korean New Year (Seollal) and Vietnamese New Year (Tết). It is ready to use as soon as you download or print it.

We created this product to help our students learn to compare topics and found that there was limited information out there regarding Korean and Vietnamese New Year which are quite different from Chinese New Year.

This holiday product includes:

• nine separate reading passages that explore the customs and traditions related to Chinese New Year (Spring Festival), Korean New Year (Seollal) and Vietnamese New Year (Tết Nguyên Đán) in a variety of expository styles.
• complete lesson plans to work through each of the readings and supplemental activities with teacher annotated versions of all the reading passages
• suggestions to modify for your students.
• suggested answers.
• student pages with photographs of examples.
• a variety of graphic organizers to help you differentiate for your students
• 5 days of writing prompts (persuasive, expository and narrative) with topics about different traditions.
• assessment activity with a simple marking guide.
• extension activities.
• suggested book list.
• resources list.

Be sure to check out more of our holiday and seasonal resources. We have more Lunar New Year's resources.

• Lunar New Year Math Grade 3 (paper)
• Lunar New Year Math Grade 4 (paper)
• Lunar New Year Math Grade 5 (paper)
• Lunar New Year Logic Puzzles (paper and Google Slides)

If you're looking for more writing prompts, take a look at ELA: Writing.

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Thank you for your consideration! Happy New Year from the Brain Ninjas!