Description
These Turkey Trouble activities give you a full week of Thanksgiving reading lessons.
Turkey Trouble by Wendi Silvano is a fun Thanksgiving read aloud about a clever turkey who disguises himself to stay off the menu. This Rooted in Reading unit gives you five days of reading lessons built around the book, paired with a nonfiction reader about animals that camouflage and a set of turkey research activities. Every activity is available as a printable PDF and digitally in Seesaw, Google Slides, and PowerPoint.
What’s Included
- 5 days of lesson plans for reading and vocabulary
- Teaching videos: describing characters, perspective, and vocabulary
- Picture examples of all activities
- Reading comprehension question stems
- Digital posters for describing characters, how characters respond to challenges, and perspective
- Describing characters flap-up, anchor chart, and digital activity
- How Do Characters Respond activities in digital drag-and-drop and cut-and-paste versions
- Character anchor chart and perspective reading response
- Fiction and nonfiction passages
- Comprehension check for the story
- Nonfiction reader: Concealed Creatures (animals that camouflage)
- Anchor chart for recording information about animals
- Owl butterfly directed drawing with writing pages
- Describe the Turkey reading response craft
- Vocabulary picture cards, turkey activity, prompts, Match It!, words in sentences, and assessment
- Turkey research with links, plus label a turkey, turkey life cycle, turkey true and false, and comparing farm and wild turkeys
Skills Practiced
- Describing characters
- How characters respond to challenges
- Characters’ perspectives
- Vocabulary
- Nonfiction research
Good to Know
- You will need a copy of Turkey Trouble by Wendi Silvano, or you can find a video read aloud on Storyline Online
- This Special Edition unit focuses on comprehension, vocabulary, a nonfiction connection, and turkey research. It does not include grammar or the Daily Deep Dive found in the monthly Rooted in Reading units.
Digital Options
- PowerPoint: 17 files you can open and use, or add to the platform of your choice
- Seesaw: the activities are preloaded, so you can save and assign them with one click
- Google Slides: copy the files to your Google account with one click
Save with the bundle: this resource is also included in Rooted in Reading: Special Editions Bundle.
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