Thanksgiving Read Aloud Lesson Plans and Activities

A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan bundle for 3 Thanksgiving mentor text picture books A Turkey For Thanksgiving by Eve Bunting, Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet and Sarah Gives Thanks: How Thanksgiving Became a National Holiday by Mike Allegra. These are great reads for teaching the origin of the holiday and the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Lessons and activities focus on:

• key details and text evidence
• character description / traits
• author's message/lesson
• comparing and contrasting

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 these stories!

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