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Thanksgiving: A Micro-Learning Deck | Reading Activities

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Thanksgiving reading deck cover identifying video, audio, informational text, close reading, and summarizing
Cover of the Thanksgiving reading deck
Opening Thanksgiving prompt asks what students already know about the holiday and leaves room for responses
Opening prompt about prior knowledge
Lesson goals introduce why Thanksgiving is celebrated and became a holiday, followed by a list of activities
Learning goals and activity sequence
Vocabulary and video slide defines celebration, holiday, native, settlers, and tradition for the lesson
Key vocabulary and introductory video
Reading passage part 1 introduces Miss Suzy’s class, settlers, Native people, and Washington’s 1789 declaration
First part of the two-page reading passage
Reading passage part 2 covers Sarah Josepha Hale, Lincoln, Roosevelt’s date change, and Bush’s turkey pardon
Second part of the two-page reading passage
What’s Missing activity asks students to complete four sentences using five Thanksgiving vocabulary words
Vocabulary practice with four sentences
Main idea and details activity asks students to label six statements about Thanksgiving using draggable cards
Main idea and detail sorting activity
Summary activity asks for one sentence per prompt: First, Also, Next, and Last, with a vocabulary word bank
Final summary activity with four prompts
Attributes
Subject

Holiday & Seasonal, Holidays, Thanksgiving

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 Thanksgiving: A Micro-Learning Deck | Reading Activities resource is a 15-slide download that exposes your students to informational texts for Thanksgiving.

This digital mini-lesson includes:

  1. -Video & Audio

  2. -Close Reading

  3. -Digital & Interactive

  4. -Summarizing

  5. -Informational Text

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

What's Included

1 PowerPoint with 15 ready to display slides

Resource Tags

reading comprehension informational text Thanksgiving reading Thanksgiving activities creative writing

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