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Unusual Festivals Around the World: A Micro-Learning Deck | Reading Activities

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Look Inside · 9 pages

Cover of Unusual Festivals Around the World, a micro-learning deck featuring reading, video, and audio
Cover of the festival micro-learning deck
Opening prompt asks what students know about festivals and provides space to record their responses
Opening prompt about prior festival knowledge
Learning agenda introduces four festivals and different cultures, then lists watching, reading, and summary tasks
Learning goals and activity agenda
Video lesson introduction defines five key words: culture, Hindu, massive, pelting, and unusual
Key vocabulary and festival video introduction
Reading passage part 1 introduces sisters Kat and Robin and describes Spain's La Tomatina tomato fight
Reading passage, part 1 of 3: La Tomatina
Reading passage part 2 describes India's spring color festival and Madagascar's turning of bones celebration
Reading passage, part 2 of 3: India and Madagascar
Reading passage part 3 describes a monkey buffet in Lopburi, Thailand, and Kat joining Robin on a trip to Spain
Reading passage, part 3 of 3: Monkey buffet
Vocabulary activity asks students to complete five festival sentences using culture, Hindu, massive, and two more
Five sentence completions using the word bank
Main idea and details activity asks students to classify six festival statements using two main idea labels
Six statements to identify as main ideas or details
Attributes
Subject

Social Studies, Geography

Grades

Grade 5, 6, 7, 8

Types

Activities

File

Microsoft PowerPoint

Editable
No
Author
Teach Me This
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About This Product

The Unusual Festivals Around the World: A Micro-Learning Deck | Reading Activities resource is a 16-slide download that exposes your students to informational texts for unusual festivals that take place around the world.

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 16 ready to display slides

Resource Tags

reading lesson plan festivals around the world digital lesson digital activities

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