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Follow a rhyming narrative through a candy-themed Christmas land (candy cane, gummy bears, gingerbread man, lollipops, doughnuts, marshmallows, chocolate turtle, hot chocolate) and perform the matching gross motor task for each scene (bend over, bear crawl, run in place, twirl, arm circles, twist side to side, swim…
Answer classroom discussion questions about the poem's narrator, structure, and plot details after the read-aloud, and participate in extension activities such as memorizing part of the poem, making mouse-footprint crafts, making a Santa hat craft, building a classroom fireplace display, and a 'nestled in their beds'…
A short illustrated Christmas story ('Santa Slips') in which two children help an injured Santa, for read-aloud or independent reading.
Listen to or read the rhyming story as Zoggy shrinks down to watch Dan's school Nativity play and learns who baby Jesus is.
Before reading, use given vocabulary words to write a prediction; while/after reading, complete a cause-and-effect chart, a story-elements map (characters, setting, problem, key events, solution, theme), a character-feelings foldable organizer, a summary using vocabulary words, and answer discussion questions about…
For each of three books (Mrs. Wishy-Washy's Christmas, The Not Very Merry Pout-Pout Fish, Mooseltoe), students identify a focus letter's name/sound, practice writing it, find it in the book, use core-word and fringe-vocabulary strips (some in AAC-style core-word board format) to communicate, cut out story…
For each lesson, students engage in a read-aloud, then complete interactive slide activities: retell 'What Happened?' (beginning/middle/end), a sensory 'Character Close Up' (what characters heard/saw/said/smelled/touched), a 'Play on Words' joke-ranking/cartoon-drawing activity, a 'What's Missing?' fill-in-the-blank…
Students read a short descriptive passage about a festively decorated high street and shopping precinct (including an old man resembling Father Christmas), answer 12 comprehension/inference questions (including two drawing tasks and a word-search-style task finding Christmas-related words such as tinsel, twinkle…
Read the accompanying Bible passages (e.g. Luke 1:26-33, the Annunciation) alongside a sequence of paintings depicting each stage of the Christmas story.
trace and/or write sentences completing prompts (e.g. 'At Christmas, snowmen like to...', 'My favorite part was when...'), rate the book with a button-rating scale, and fill in a beginning/middle/end plot chart
Students sequence the story events, label a nativity scene using a word bank, make and check predictions, retell the story using a Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then frame, write about their favorite part, describe the main character, record new story vocabulary, write what they would give baby Jesus, compare themselves to…
Students answer classroom discussion questions about the story, explore the five senses (especially smell), complete a story jigsaw puzzle, color/cut/assemble crafts (bear mask, Christmas stocking, gingerbread boy, Christmas tree with decorations, story crown), sort things that smell like Christmas into an envelope…