Cobweb Christmas activities and lesson plan ideas

Our Cobweb Christmas Activities are now digital for distance learning with editable teaching slides and worksheets based on Shirley Climo’s book. Read aloud the December 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 ☐ summarizing and retelling ☐ visualizing ☐ analyzing setting ☐ analyzing character ☐ identifying genre ☐ author's purpose ☐ identifying theme, message or moral   ◼️ SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING TOPICS ☐ honesty ☐ perseverance   ◼️ GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE CONCEPTS ☐ suffixes ☐ prepositions ☐ adjectives ☐ adverbs   SUMMARY OF THE MENTOR TEXT: Cobweb Christmas is a German folktale that explains why people decorate their Christmas tree with Tinsel. It tells the story of an old woman fondly called Tante, by those in her village. Each year, Tante gets her home ready for Christmas by cleaning and going out to get a Christmas tree. Tante