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Christmas With Grandma eBook
Read (or listen to/be read) the rhyming narrative poem describing a boy's Christmas traditions with his grandmother.
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The Story of Santa Claus eBook
Read or listen to the 27-page illustrated story of Claus the toymaker who becomes Santa Claus, based on L. Frank Baum's 'The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus.'
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The Littlest Christmas Tree eBook
A illustrated read-aloud storybook ("The Littlest Christmas Tree") for early-elementary language arts and holiday/seasonal literacy use.
Movement & participation
Gross Motor Storybook: Christmas Candy Land
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…
Storybooks & poems
'Twas The Night Before Christmas eBook
An illustrated eBook (with companion .epub) presenting the classic rhyming poem 'Twas the Night Before Christmas' (Clement Clarke Moore), supporting holiday read-aloud, rhyme/poetry exposure, and early literacy.
Storybooks & poems
The Mouse's Christmas eBook
A illustrated read-aloud storybook ("The Mouse's Christmas") for early-elementary language arts and holiday/seasonal literacy use.
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"The Night Before Christmas" | Picture Book Study
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'…
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Storybooks & poemsMovement & participation
The Twelve Days Of Christmas eBook
Read or sing along with the cumulative verses of the carol, day by day, from a partridge in a pear tree through twelve drummers drumming.
Storybooks & poems
SANTA SLIPS - A magical Christmas story
A short illustrated Christmas story ('Santa Slips') in which two children help an injured Santa, for read-aloud or independent reading.
Nativity & faith
There's An Alien At The Nativity Play (3-7 years)
Listen to or read the rhyming story as Zoggy shrinks down to watch Dan's school Nativity play and learns who baby Jesus is.
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Wild Christmas Reindeer by Jan Brett | Reading Comprehension Activities
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…
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Christmas Literacy-Language Book Companion Packet
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…
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Snowmen at Christmas | Book Companion Activities | Digital Book Study
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…
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Christmas Shopping Comprehension And Story Writing Prompt
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…
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Nativity & faith
In Art: The Christmas Story eBook
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.
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Snowmen at Christmas Writing Worksheets
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
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Humphrey's First Christmas | Interactive Reading Packet
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…
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"The Sweet Smell of Christmas" | Picture Book Study
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…