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A Turkey for Thanksgiving WritingA Turkey for Thanksgiving Writing
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A Turkey for Thanksgiving

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If you're reading Eve Bunting's A Turkey for Thanksgiving, take a look at these activities to follow the story. Kids complete a crossword puzzle, word search, event sequence activity, and multiple choice reading quiz before responding to a creative writing prompt. 

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Concepts

thanksgiving, sequence of events

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • If you don't have this book, you can find a video of it being read on YouTube
  • Once learners have written about the character they liked the most, go around the room to let everyone share

Pros

  • Incorporates good vocabulary from the story in the word puzzle activities
  • Includes an answer key

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