World Holiday Reading Bundle

Teach students about holidays from around the world. There are two levels of reading passages, picture cards, writing pages, and sentence frames for each holiday set.

Harvest Festival Reading Passages- Help students learn about the holidays of Thanksgiving in the USA, Zhong Qiu Jie in China, Chuseok in Korea, and Pongal in India.

Festival of Lights Reading Passages- Help students learn about the holidays of Diwali, Hannukah, and Kwanza.

New Year Celebrations- Help students learn about the holidays of the American New Year, Chinese New Year, Japanese New Year, Filipino New Year, Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year).

Love Celebrations- Help students learn about Valentine's Day in the United States, La Diada de Sant Jordi (St Sordi’s Day) in Barcelona Spain, Dia dos Namorados (Lover’s Day) in Brazil, Tu B’Av a Jewish love holiday, and Dia de Amor y Amistad (Love and Friendship Day) in Colombia.

Compare & Contrast Halloween and Day of the Dead

Through reading passages and activities students will practice their reading comprehension skills as they learn about fall harvest festivals from around the world.

Differentiated Reading Passages

Each reading passage comes in two reading levels. There are pictures included to support ELLs.

Vocabulary Picture Cards & Sentence Frames

There are picture cards in color and black and white for each holiday. There are also sentence frames to help students talk and write about each holiday or compare and contrast different holidays.

Graphic Organizer & Writing Reflection

There are graphic organizers and a writing reflection question included. Both have two levels, one with a word bank and sentence frames.