A Turkey for Thanksgiving activities and lesson plan ideas

Our A Turkey for Thanksgiving Activities are now digital for distance learning with editable teaching slides and worksheets based on Eve Bunting’s book. Read aloud the Thanksgiving picture book then use the printables or go paperless with Google or Seesaw to practice standards-based skills.   THIS READING UNIT FOCUSES ON USING THE MENTOR TEXT TO TEACH: ◼️ READING STRATEGIES ☐ making inferences ☐ making predictions ☐ synthesizing ☐ analyzing illustrations ☐ plot | problem and solution ☐ ask and answer questions   ◼️ SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING TOPICS ☐ friendship ☐ kindness   ◼️ GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE CONCEPTS ☐ nouns ☐ compound words ☐ prepositions ☐ capitalization   SUMMARY OF THE MENTOR TEXT: In the book A Turkey for Thanksgiving, Mr. and Mrs. Moose are getting ready to have their friends over for Thanksgiving dinner. When everything is set up, Mrs. Moose is disappointed that she does not have a turkey at dinner, so Mr. Moose decides to go out and find her one. As Mr. Moose wanders aro