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Thanksgiving Reading Comprehension & ELA Activities Bundle

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Thanksgiving Reading Comprehension
Thanksgiving Reading Comprehension

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Categories: Digital Resources, Holiday, Informational Text, Reading Comprehension Tags: holiday, reading comprehension
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Thanksgiving Reading Comprehension & ELA Activities Bundle – Digital & Printable Escape Room, History of Thanksgiving, & Subject & Predicate Activities!!! Students will be using reading comprehension, reading a fictional short story, informational text, using critical thinking, point of view, vocabulary, figurative language, and more and won’t even realize it! If using the digital version, there is NO PREP! Simply share the link to the Google Form and go!!! Perfect for the days before Thanksgiving!
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Thanksgiving Reading Comprehension & ELA Digital & Printable Escape Room

There are 4 “rooms” that students must work through in order to escape:
  • Room #1- Read a Thanksgiving short story and answer reading comprehension questions.
  • Room #2- Watch a History of Thanksgiving video and complete fill-in-the-blanks based on the video.
  • Room #3- Complete a Thanksgiving-themed crossword puzzle.
  • Room #4- Thanksgiving-themed figurative language- similes, metaphors, personification, alliteration.
  • Answer Key
  • Step-by-Step Directions

Thanksgiving Reading Comprehension Informational Text, Quiz, & Choice Board 

History of Thanksgiving reading informational text, quiz, and reading choice board activities resource with ZERO PREP is perfect leading up to Thanksgiving. It’s digital & printable and is exactly what you need for your students to have a fun and engaging lesson prior to the break! It includes everything you need! You can share the link and go or print!
 
Your students will read the text, answer close reading questions for the 10 multiple choice question quiz, then complete their choice of fun activities using the choice board.
 
What’s Included:
  • Link to digital resource
  • Informational Text on The History of Thanksgiving
  • Quiz
  • Link to Google Form Quiz (automatically graded)
  • Choice Board
  • Choice Board Templates for each activity
  • Answer key
  • ZERO PREP

Thanksgiving-Themed Subject & Predicate Task Cards

These 24 task cards with 3 levels of differentiation are a great way to not only help your students master subjects and predicates, but to also help them learn more about the history of Thanksgiving. The sentences provide the students with information about how Thanksgiving originated, as well as how it became an American tradition.
 
What’s included:
  • Link to digital version
  • The orange task cards require students to identify the simple subject and simple predicate.
  • The yellow task cards have students identify the complete subject and complete predicate.
  • The purple task cards ask students to identify whether the subject or predicate is missing, and then complete the sentence by adding the missing part.
  • Answer Key
 
*****⚠️⚠️MAKE SURE YOUR DISTRICT DOES NOT BLOCK YOU FROM USING GOOGLE SLIDES THAT ARE MADE BY SOMEONE IN A DIFFERENT NETWORK! If this issue arises, please contact me at litwithlyns@gmail.com for assistance. You can also get help from your school tech person if you have one. I am not responsible if your district blocks these websites, and I suggest you test these sites first!⚠️⚠️*****
** Access to Google accounts/Google Drive is recommended.*
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