Cranberry Thanksgiving activities and lesson plan ideas

Our Cranberry Thanksgiving Activities are now digital for distance learning with editable teaching slides and worksheets based on Wende Devlin’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 ☐ making connections ☐ comparing and contrasting ☐ synthesizing ☐ analyzing character ☐ analyzing setting ☐ plot | problem and solution ☐ cause and effect   ◼️ SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING TOPICS ☐ forgiveness ☐ prejudice   ◼️ GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE CONCEPTS ☐ adjectives ☐ compound words ☐ homophones ☐ italics   SUMMARY OF THE MENTOR TEXT: Cranberry Thanksgiving tells the story of a young girl named Maggie and her Grandmother. In preparation for Thanksgiving, Grandmother prepares her famous cranberry bread. Her bread is so famous that she must hide the recipe so others can’t use it. Each Thanksgiving, Maggie and Grandmother