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Memorial Day: A Micro-Learning Deck | Reading Activities

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Look Inside · 10 pages

Cover of the Memorial Day micro-learning deck, listing video, audio, vocabulary, and informational text
Cover introducing the digital mini-lesson
Lesson overview lists a keyword video, reading passage with audio, comprehension, vocabulary, and a quick write
Overview of lesson components
Prior-knowledge prompt asks what students know about Memorial Day, with space to record their responses
Opening prompt about existing knowledge
Lesson objectives introduce Memorial Day history and why it is celebrated, followed by six lesson tasks
Learning objectives and lesson tasks
Video introduction defines five key words: brutal, camaraderie, fallen, massive, and ritual for the lesson
Video and five vocabulary definitions
Reading passage part 1 traces honoring war dead from ancient customs to John Logan's 1868 Decoration Day
Part 1 of the three-slide reading passage
Reading passage part 2 covers Arlington graves, expansion after World War I, and federal holiday status
Part 2 of the three-slide reading passage
Reading passage part 3 names Victory Day, Remembrance Day, and Anzac Day and reflects on military camaraderie
Part 3 of the three-slide reading passage
Vocabulary completion activity uses brutal, camaraderie, fallen, massive, and ritual in five passage sentences
Five sentence blanks using the word bank
Vocabulary matching activity asks students to pair brutal, camaraderie, fallen, massive, and ritual with meanings
Drag-and-drop matching for five vocabulary words
Attributes
Subject

Holiday & Seasonal, Holidays, Memorial Day

Grades

Grade 4, 5, 6, 7

Types

Activities

File

Microsoft PowerPoint

Editable
No
Author
Teach Me This
Rating
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About This Product

The Memorial Day: A Micro-Learning Deck | Reading Activities resource is a 14-slide download that exposes your students to informational texts for Memorial Day.

This digital mini-lesson includes:

  1. -Video & Audio

  2. -Vocabulary

  3. -Close Reading

  4. -Digital & Interactive

  5. -Summarizing

  6. -Informational Text

Students will enjoy interacting with this lesson and each of the activities!

What's Included

1 PowerPoint with 14 ready to display slides

Resource Tags

digital lesson mini reading lesson holiday writing prompts creative writing Memorial Day activities

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